I didn’t really want to go to town today. I needed a couple of grocery items and thought I could wait a few more days. Then I thought again and remembered it’s Thanksgiving this Thursday. Grocery stores get crazy this week. Tuesday and Wednesday will be worse than today. So I went.
It was not a good sign that the parking lot was very full. It was also not a good sign that shoppers were coming out of the store to get carts from the various corrals. So I snagged one and headed in. The checkout area was clogged.
You know how in Star Wars they plot a course then shoot through the universe without hitting anything? That’s what it was like moving through the aisles. Almost magically my path was unobstructed and the things I needed were in easy reach. Zoom grab zoom grab zoom grab… Also highly unusual: my cart didn’t have wobbly or bumpy wheels.
And when I got to checkout there was an available register waiting for me. Bleep bleep bleep bleep, into the bag and go. In and out in less than ten minutes. Amazing.
As I returned to the open desert I saw more RVs, toy haulers and dust-producing off-roaders than when I had passed earlier. Yeah, it’s going to keep loading up for the holiday weekend. But my campsite is away from most of that. Still I’ll have some neighbors. Guess I shouldn’t be peeing outside for the next few days. At least in daylight.
No flashlight at night, either.
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