Farmerteen once wrote a book about the “foucher” and what it [the future] might hold.
When I decided I really needed a set of noise-canceling headphones, Michael was in Beijing, and we were IMing at one of the points our timetables coincided. Because of all his travel, he ends up with points, and I asked if he could order a set of noise-canceling headphones, so I could work, uninterrupted, in the house.
I mentioned that, if he were to order them and get overnight shipping, they would potentially arrive to me at a time and date BEFORE he ordered them.
Nothing doing.
Apparently, in the foucher, everyone’s a skinflint.