26th January 2019
We slept in later than we wanted. Kelli had two people interested in a couple of pieces of furniture at Hudsonville. I had my list of jobs that I wanted to progress. Kelli agreed to collect her mothers prescription, and I had some timber to buy. We had petrol fumes in the truck so the first port of call was the petrol station. I went into the shop to pay and had to join a queue. In front of me were Mr and Mrs Large, their hands, and arms holding their hot dogs with extra onions, and a large coke. There was some hold up at the register so I suggested they start eating while the food was still hot, they looked at me and smiled, I’m not sure they got the concept of eating standing up.
Kelli dropped me at Menards and drove off to Meijers to pick up the medicine.
I managed to find the timber easily, but I had to wait over half an hour for Kelli to collect me. It did give me an opportunity to observe people.
Firstly, some men bought an amazing amount of timber, sheets of plywood and stud timber, it made me feel totally inadequate with my weedy strips of softwood.
There is something manly about buying sheets of good ply, not the cheap OSB this is the real stuff. The other manly attributes to have are, bushy beards, lumberjack shirts and a backward facing baseball cap. I am lucky to have the lumberjack shirt (I have several) but even that did not help with the cold as I waited for Kelli’s return.
The weather did eventually drive me back into the store to wait in the warm, but that was provided I didn’t activate the electric sliding door. I learned to take small breaths, because the action of a full breath allowed my stomach to break the activation beam, causing the door to open and exposing everyone inside to a rush of cold air.
Eventually the truck turned up and I threw my bits of wood in the back, and we set off to deliver the medicine to the in-laws.
Kelli told me that each pill cost $14, that is why they have to store them in a safe.
Another Lifetime to go 