8 years ago
Monday, December 10, 2007
Christmas Season Frustration
First off, I hate to shop. I like the idea of giving to people, but hate to deal with the crowds and commercialization of the holiday. Now, Saturday I really did not feel like going to Billings to shop, but Danielle wanted to take Macks (the dog) to have his picture with Santa Claus at PetSmart (I think that is a bit silly, but I agreed to take them). The plan was to load the dogs in the truck and be gone from Hardin around 8:00 am; at 8:30, Danielle is bringing the dogs out to the truck (we decided to take Maggie as well) and they see the neighbor dog outside and want to "say hello" and pull Danielle down in the yard and take off. Now the search for the dogs is on; twenty minutes later we flag down one of our friends who is a deputy here in town and she told us that she did see the dogs and that she had caught them and taken them to the pound (she didn't know that they were our dogs). So now I have criminal dogs; "Dog at Large" is the official charge. At 10:00 we finally leave for Billings; now I realize that Billings is the largest city in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, but does that have to mean that everyone from those three states have to descend upon Billings at the same time to shop? Traffic was a snarling mess. Macks did get his picture with Santa, and we did get to do a little shopping, but as we were trying to make our way out of the Wal-Mart parking lot (I HATE Wal-Mart, but that is a story for a different day) I had to navigate around a bone headed wreck. Apparently someone was tired of waiting in line and tried to beat a truck out of the parking lot; this did not end well for the car...or the truck...or anyone else who was trying to leave Wal-Mart. I think that I will complete my shopping from the safety of my desk chair!
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