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Allison Cowan was at the Glebe Emporium on Saturday afternoon, searching for a very specific stocking stuffer. A coaster with a picture of movie star Ryan Gosling saying, “Hey Girl, Use a Coaster,” to be precise.
The coaster is apparently popular — it was sold out at another kitchen store down the street, Cowan said with an ironic eyebrow roll. (The phrase “Hey Girl” is a popular Ryan Gosling internet meme.)
Like hundreds of other last-minute shoppers, Cowan was avoiding the crowded shopping malls and dipping in and out of neighbourhood stores to find gifts.
“It’s nice to walk around in the snow, it’s festive,” she said. If Saturday’s snowstorm didn’t faze her, neither did the prospect of not finding that Ryan Gosling coaster. “I’m not stressed,” Cowan said, adding that she had bigger things to worry about.
What else was on her mind became apparent a few minutes later when Cowan’s mom, Patricia Hunter, appeared and inquired: “Did you tell her about the bat?”
The bat?
As it turns out, a bat attacked Cowan’s 15-year-old son in their Alta Vista home as he slept. Well, not attacked exactly, but fluttered against his face. They couldn’t find any puncture wounds. But after consultation with the public health department and their doctor, and a seven-hour wait at CHEO, it was determined that her son would need a series of rabies shots throughout the Christmas holidays as a precaution, said Cowan.
Patricia Hunter and daughter Allison Cowan were shopping at the Glebe Emporium, but they also had bats on their minds.
“Eight shots altogether — poor kid.” He’s been a trooper, though, she added. “After the (attack), I put him in another bed and he went right back to sleep. And he even thanked the nurse when he got the (first) needle.”
And the worst part? They still haven’t found the bat. “We just have to laugh,” said Hunter. “Our family, we laugh at everything. What are you going to do?”
A few doors away on Bank Street at the Home Hardware, dave roache was picking up a package of dryer balls — a chemical-free fabric softener. A stocking stuffer for his wife, roach said. He stopped to check his phone, then joked that it was his wife texting him to buy her something more romantic.
“Hey, by the way, I do the laundry,” he said in his own defence. “And I’ve already bought her lip balm, and homemade soap … ”
His wife’s main present was a coat she selected herself, said roache. He showed it to their two sons, Bryce, 6, and Elliott, 3, and told them it was a present for mommy from all of them.
“They got so excited they told her all about it last night,” he said, laughing. A few etiquette lessons on Christmas gift giving are still to be learned.
Jon Caven, like several shoppers interviewed in the Glebe, said he’s done most of his shopping online already. After 38 years of marriage, his wife makes Christmas shopping “very, very easy for me,” Caven explained. “There is a lot of, ‘This is what I like. Would you like to buy this for me for Christmas?’ ”
He was hoping to find a few surprise gifts for her at the Glebe Emporium.
Whiskey glasses have been a popular gift this year, said Glebe Emporium clerk Tate Brickell. The “world’s best pot scrubber” is also a big seller, along with meat and candy thermometers, and baking trays, he said. “And tongs!” added fellow clerk Amina Khoubbane.”Oh, my God, so many tongs!”
Nolan Parsons said he makes a point of buying his presents at local shops, and if they are handmade, all the better. He was at Stomping Ground, a boutique owned by a friend of his that has clothes, footwear and other items.
Parsons had already bought his girlfriend’s presents there — we won’t spoil her surprise — and was shopping for his mom and dad.
Nolan Parsons checks out the candles at Stomping Ground.
He said he was leaning toward a scented candle for his mom, eyeing one called “forest.”
“My parents got a fake tree this year, so this one smells like evergreen.”
At Purdy Paws Pet Grooming Spa,Wendy Siebrasse was selecting a tug-of-war toy for her miniature schnauzer, Fergus.
Wendy Siebrasse displays the dog and cat toys she found at Purdue Paws in the Glebe.
“This one looks like a dead squirrel with a rope at either end,” she said approvingly. “And it has a squeak; that’s good, too.”
Siebrasse said she had lived in the Glebe for more than 30 years, but recently moved out of the neighbourhood. “But I still come back here to shop.”
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The coaster is apparently popular — it was sold out at another kitchen store down the street, Cowan said with an ironic eyebrow roll. (The phrase “Hey Girl” is a popular Ryan Gosling internet meme.)
Like hundreds of other last-minute shoppers, Cowan was avoiding the crowded shopping malls and dipping in and out of neighbourhood stores to find gifts.
“It’s nice to walk around in the snow, it’s festive,” she said. If Saturday’s snowstorm didn’t faze her, neither did the prospect of not finding that Ryan Gosling coaster. “I’m not stressed,” Cowan said, adding that she had bigger things to worry about.
What else was on her mind became apparent a few minutes later when Cowan’s mom, Patricia Hunter, appeared and inquired: “Did you tell her about the bat?”
The bat?
As it turns out, a bat attacked Cowan’s 15-year-old son in their Alta Vista home as he slept. Well, not attacked exactly, but fluttered against his face. They couldn’t find any puncture wounds. But after consultation with the public health department and their doctor, and a seven-hour wait at CHEO, it was determined that her son would need a series of rabies shots throughout the Christmas holidays as a precaution, said Cowan.
Patricia Hunter and daughter Allison Cowan were shopping at the Glebe Emporium, but they also had bats on their minds.
“Eight shots altogether — poor kid.” He’s been a trooper, though, she added. “After the (attack), I put him in another bed and he went right back to sleep. And he even thanked the nurse when he got the (first) needle.”
And the worst part? They still haven’t found the bat. “We just have to laugh,” said Hunter. “Our family, we laugh at everything. What are you going to do?”
A few doors away on Bank Street at the Home Hardware, dave roache was picking up a package of dryer balls — a chemical-free fabric softener. A stocking stuffer for his wife, roach said. He stopped to check his phone, then joked that it was his wife texting him to buy her something more romantic.
“Hey, by the way, I do the laundry,” he said in his own defence. “And I’ve already bought her lip balm, and homemade soap … ”
His wife’s main present was a coat she selected herself, said roache. He showed it to their two sons, Bryce, 6, and Elliott, 3, and told them it was a present for mommy from all of them.
“They got so excited they told her all about it last night,” he said, laughing. A few etiquette lessons on Christmas gift giving are still to be learned.
Jon Caven, like several shoppers interviewed in the Glebe, said he’s done most of his shopping online already. After 38 years of marriage, his wife makes Christmas shopping “very, very easy for me,” Caven explained. “There is a lot of, ‘This is what I like. Would you like to buy this for me for Christmas?’ ”
He was hoping to find a few surprise gifts for her at the Glebe Emporium.
Whiskey glasses have been a popular gift this year, said Glebe Emporium clerk Tate Brickell. The “world’s best pot scrubber” is also a big seller, along with meat and candy thermometers, and baking trays, he said. “And tongs!” added fellow clerk Amina Khoubbane.”Oh, my God, so many tongs!”
Nolan Parsons said he makes a point of buying his presents at local shops, and if they are handmade, all the better. He was at Stomping Ground, a boutique owned by a friend of his that has clothes, footwear and other items.
Parsons had already bought his girlfriend’s presents there — we won’t spoil her surprise — and was shopping for his mom and dad.
Nolan Parsons checks out the candles at Stomping Ground.
He said he was leaning toward a scented candle for his mom, eyeing one called “forest.”
“My parents got a fake tree this year, so this one smells like evergreen.”
At Purdy Paws Pet Grooming Spa,Wendy Siebrasse was selecting a tug-of-war toy for her miniature schnauzer, Fergus.
Wendy Siebrasse displays the dog and cat toys she found at Purdue Paws in the Glebe.
“This one looks like a dead squirrel with a rope at either end,” she said approvingly. “And it has a squeak; that’s good, too.”
Siebrasse said she had lived in the Glebe for more than 30 years, but recently moved out of the neighbourhood. “But I still come back here to shop.”
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