Mandy was getting 1)so bored one afternoon that she decided to go shopping. She always took 2)such pleasure in buying things for herself that she would often spend lots of money in just one day. She set out feeling really excited. After two hours she had bought 3)so many things that she could hardly carry them. The shops were closing and there was 4)a lot of traffic in the streets that she couldn't find a taxi. She started feeling frustrated as the parcels and bags she was carrying were getting in everyone's way. She was 5)so anxious to get back home that she decided to take the underground. She took 6)such a long time to find her purse among her things that people waiting behind her in the queue started muttering. When she finally found it, there was 7)so little money in it that she didn't have enough to buy a ticket. Mandy was 8)so embarrassed that she just wanted to disappear. She left the station and was in 9)such a desperate state that she didn't know what to do. ''I've spent 10) so much money,'' she thought, ''that I've made a fool of myself in front of complete strangers.'' Mandy eventually got home with all her shopping after getting a lift in a pizza delivery van!
''You have the ability to choose your reactions.''
