Today, I wanted to price check a couple of things AND get home "early". (I slept away most of the day yesterday, and I know my sleep patterns will be out of whack for a while.) Unfortunately, this was not the case.
My first stop was at Staples to price out a chair mat to protect my carpet from the chair by my computer desk. $70 is an uncomfortable expense for me, but one I know I'll need to spend. Instead of me bringing this unwieldy object home in my car, I figure that I'll order it from Amazon, and have it shipped to me for free. After this, I stopped at Target, looking for inexpensive reading glasses to replace the ones that fell out of my pocketbook. No luck there, so it was off to Walmart.
Normally, a trip to Walmart ends up with most people spending more than planned. But today was worse. All of the self service checkout stations were closed, and there were lines 10 carts deep at the remaining manned stations. Instead of being in and out in 15 minutes (I knew where the reading glasses are stocked), I was there for an hour, most of which was waiting in line. If I ever see lines like this again outside of the Xmas rush, I'll shop elsewhere if possible.....
BTW: I bought two pairs of glasses while I was there....
