Jun 27 2008
50 Words on Buyer’s Remorse
During last week’s Indiana Teachers of Writing National Writing Project Advanced Institute on the University of Notre Dame campus, we had one prompt of “In 50 words, write about buyer’s remorse.” The 50 words motif is fairly popular as it is less intimidating to write 50 words as opposed to 250 words. It’s really a great way to get writing started and then, perhaps, one could build from the 50 words. I think the other cool thing is that you are limited to 50 words…so you’ll need to edit, revise for word choice in the piece.
So, here was my response to “Write 50 words on buyer’s remorse”:
Fully conscious suckers, we were
into allowing men to “just clean a room carpet for free” segueing into “how much would you spend for a vacuum cleaner that does all this?” Agreed,
creditcarded,”Let’s sleep on it,”
restless sleep as a sign,
then we canceled.
Now we have a Roomba.
What’s your 50 words on buyer’s remorse?
We had to watch the video on extended warranties. It took less time than we feared. The salesman spent far too much time on his hair. “Don’t you see the value in this product?” he queried. “I do, but no thanks,” I said. We avoided buyer’s remorse.
Michael,
Thanks for the response and nice 50-worder…ah, I’m thinking of the time we went to Disneyworld and got “DisneyBucks” for listening to a “pitch” for timeshares (they were not happy with us poor college students).
Peace,
Chris