Tonight was epic.
Tonight I embarked on what I thought would be a journey of ease and swiftness. A half-hour, max. A half hour comfortably browsing the familiar aisles of my favorite grocery store for cornbread crumbs, green beans, and turkey drumsticks marked down to 90 percent off of the original price, since that's what they do to the turkey in the store on Thanksgiving Eve.
Instead, every minute was an intense struggle.
First, I sat for 40 minutes (20 minutes longer than expected) in my little car as it crawled through heavy Thanksgiving Eve traffic to its first destination. This is a bad start, but it will not be bad trip.
Consequently, my favorite store was closing by the time I got there. Fine. I can shop in unfamiliar aisles in the unfamiliar grocery up the street. Fine.
After this, I reached inside my purse to answer my ringing phone, and realized that I had left my wallet at home. I don't care. I will go shopping tonight.
After returning home to get my wallet, I returned to the store. I found turkey there. But they were out of brown sugar. And pecans. And pumpkins. And cranberries. (Go figure) What is Thanksgiving meal without cranberries?
So I went to another store. They were out of cranberries and brown sugar too. But they had pecans. The pecans seemed to be mocking me. This is why people don't shop this late for Thanksgiving. All the important ingredients get sold out.
I got lost on the way to the third store. Not lost, just turned around, and it took 10 minutes to turn back around, because of the traffic. I will not be driven home by bad circumstances. I will not go home without the cranberries.
The third store had brown sugar. And cranberries!
I made it home while the turkey (bought at Store #1) was still cold.
Tonight, I battled Fate.
And I won.
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