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So today I got off work at 5:00, and rushed to Sears optical to get a pair of glasses ordered; they closed at 6, so I was in a bit of a rush because while I knew about what I was getting, I wanted to look over a few pair to make a final decision. I ordered the first pair yesterday - the glasses for when I'm at the computer; the other pair are my new bifocals for regular reading and distance vision*. (My reading prescription is not quite the same as my computer prescription.) I got there at 5:35. Turns out they close at 5:30 on Fridays.
I stopped at the food court (the Sears is at the mall) and went to the salad place - there are a few different chains around here that just make fresh salads, and I stop whenever I can, because I love salad. I ordered a small with mushrooms and black olives; I double checked when he was adding the olives, because they were whole and usually black olives are sliced. I confirmed they were black olives; he finished making my salad. I started to eat and discovered they were kalamata olives. I HATE kalamata olives. Which means I both got overcharged and had to pick through my salad to take every bit of them out, and it still had a faint taste of them.
So I went to Catherine's to get a work blouse or two. Got there and they were having their season-end clearance sale - racks of stuff marked down, and 60% off on top of the mark-down price. Found two blouses my size; one a great color but I wasn't sure of the cut, and one I cut I already have but in a new color. They would have been around $7.50 each; I ended up having to put both of them back. The cut on the one was horrid on me, and the color on the second made me look jaundiced.
I went to a restaurant to have a bite to eat, got seated almost immediately, and waited, waited, waited, and then someone took my appetizer order, and I waited... and then someone came to tell me they didn't have that available, and so I ordered another appetizer. And waited. Long story short - I walked in having read up to page 32; I walked out on page 110. And I stopped reading to eat. The people around me? They were getting seated, drinks, food... I was getting ignored.
So I drove home, and just as I was about to turn into my subdivision I realized I'd forgotten to get cat food, and I was OUT - so I had to turn around and drive back to the store I'd passed on my way home to get food so the cats didn't eat me in my sleep.
Like I said, no catastrophes. Just being nibbled to death by ducks. Can I have an ARGH!?
* The reason that, when my vision started to deteriorate, I immediately lost the ability to see fine detail at a distance - unless I closed EITHER eye? Turns out that for distance vision, I am nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in another. I could see at a distance better in my right eye than my left, but my left was still better than having both eyes open.
I stopped at the food court (the Sears is at the mall) and went to the salad place - there are a few different chains around here that just make fresh salads, and I stop whenever I can, because I love salad. I ordered a small with mushrooms and black olives; I double checked when he was adding the olives, because they were whole and usually black olives are sliced. I confirmed they were black olives; he finished making my salad. I started to eat and discovered they were kalamata olives. I HATE kalamata olives. Which means I both got overcharged and had to pick through my salad to take every bit of them out, and it still had a faint taste of them.
So I went to Catherine's to get a work blouse or two. Got there and they were having their season-end clearance sale - racks of stuff marked down, and 60% off on top of the mark-down price. Found two blouses my size; one a great color but I wasn't sure of the cut, and one I cut I already have but in a new color. They would have been around $7.50 each; I ended up having to put both of them back. The cut on the one was horrid on me, and the color on the second made me look jaundiced.
I went to a restaurant to have a bite to eat, got seated almost immediately, and waited, waited, waited, and then someone took my appetizer order, and I waited... and then someone came to tell me they didn't have that available, and so I ordered another appetizer. And waited. Long story short - I walked in having read up to page 32; I walked out on page 110. And I stopped reading to eat. The people around me? They were getting seated, drinks, food... I was getting ignored.
So I drove home, and just as I was about to turn into my subdivision I realized I'd forgotten to get cat food, and I was OUT - so I had to turn around and drive back to the store I'd passed on my way home to get food so the cats didn't eat me in my sleep.
Like I said, no catastrophes. Just being nibbled to death by ducks. Can I have an ARGH!?
* The reason that, when my vision started to deteriorate, I immediately lost the ability to see fine detail at a distance - unless I closed EITHER eye? Turns out that for distance vision, I am nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in another. I could see at a distance better in my right eye than my left, but my left was still better than having both eyes open.
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