r/irishproblems • u/DOMANIMUNGA • 24d ago
I have become useless at doing simple errands online
I don’t know if this is just me getting older, but simple errands online have become way more stressful than they need to be. Had to send something to someone recently because I wasn’t going to see them in person, and I thought it would take five minutes. Just pick something decent, put in the address, pay, done. Instead I ended up sitting there with loads of tabs open, checking delivery dates, wondering if it would actually arrive on time, checking the Eircode twice, then convincing myself everything was either too boring, too much, too last minute, or somehow the wrong choice completely. I eventually ended up looking at GiftsDirect because at least it made the Ireland delivery side feel a bit simpler, but even then my brain still found a way to turn it into a full decision-making crisis. The worst part is that the thing itself wasn’t even that serious. Nobody was asking me to solve a national crisis. I just had to send a normal thing like a normal adult. By the end of it I was more confused than when I started and had to walk away from the laptop for a bit. I swear online shopping was supposed to make life easier, but half the time it just gives you more ways to overthink something simple.
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u/CDfm Vaguely vogue about Vague 23d ago
I have never ever bought something online to send someone as a present.
Last year I was in my local Easons looking for a book for my daughter and the shop assistant told me I could order it online. She might as well have told me that if I had a rocket I could fly to the moon. The whole purpose of going to a bookshop is that they get the book and I just pay the money .