When I got home I was looking over my purchases when I noticed that the gummy vitamins I purchased were for Men not Women. Then I noticed that the sunscreen I bought was for Kids not Adults...I'm I losing my eyesight?
I really did not want to return to the store but knew that Thursday had to be it as I did not want to go on a Friday or much less on the weekend. I am superstitious by nature and I avoid going out on the 13th of any day but what choice did I have?
Returned the Men's vitamins and headed to find the ones I needed when all of a sudden the store lost power. I immediately looked at my watch...it was 2:45 p.m. fifteen minutes before the official energy conservation hours of 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
It took about 20 seconds for their auxiliary power to kick in. I continued shopping when they announced over the overhead speakers that the power to their registers would take 10 minutes to restore.
Found what I needed when another announcement was made that their registers would require an additional 16 minutes...why 16 and not 15 minutes? I have no idea. Decided to go see if they had any markdowns in the camping aisle and was surprised to see half-stocked shelves.
I have been eyeing a bicycle online but they have been out of stock for a while and the same item at Amazon has tripled in price. Needing to kill time headed that way and this is what I found...
Ok, no camping gear, bicycles, or vitamins that are not Gummy's... let's wander around the paper towel aisle...at least I was re-assured that my Viva paper towels were in stock even though I didn't need any at this time...but reassuring nontheless.
Time to head for the registers, the lines were incredibly long. Associates were going around notifying customers that only credit cards with no cashback were being accepted at this time which was fine with me.
It took exactly one hour from the time of the power outage to the time I drove off their lot. Needed to pick up our mail but was too frustrated to drive back to town to do so. There is a reason why I avoid the 13th...sigh :-(
To add to the pain of it all we have been in triple digits every day in August.
Good night. May you all have Terlingua Dreams.
Aunty Acid Saying of the Day
