Day 1331 Chips away!

3rd April 2021

It was promising start to the day,the sun was shining, and it was supposed to start to warm up. What I wasn’t told was there was a wind, that blew where you didn’t want it to. This was because I choose the wrong coat to wear.

I aways tease Kelli about how many coats she has, and of course she reminds me about the micro style climate that can change from one extreme to another. That is why the coat rack is full. That doesn’t guarantee that I will choose the correct one. So I set out on my errands with the thinnest of coats, racing from car to store door in record time.

My lack of judgement continued as when I got home Kelli inquired where a certain flavour of crispy snack was, I confessed that I had eaten then to stop them going “stale”, this meant that I had to walk to the corner store to get a replacement. This time I wore a thicker coat, which felt great, but after a hundred yards it started to get uncomfortably warm. I gritted my teeth and carried on. By the time I got to the store I was toasty, and as I put my mask on I could feel perspiration on my top lip, and my glasses immediately misted up as soon as I put them on. I pushed them to the bottom of my nose and proceeded around the store peering though the lens like a short sighted professor. I walked to the isle that displayed the crispy snacks, but there were none of the flavour that Kelli had a craving for. I checked every shelf, even pulling the packets out to check that there wasn’t one hidden behind. Panic started to take hold, I had eaten all of Kelli’s favourite snack and now I couldn’t find any to take to her. I walked up and down the row just in case they put them in a different place, but no, I had failed, no, the store had failed. They had not done what every other store does, that is re-order their stock.

Now I had to walk back to my ailing wife without the snack that she had been craving.

Out of desperation I picked another flavour that was similar. I know if I had gone back empty handed she would have said “ well you could have got me so and so” and I would have definitely failed the initiative test had I not made the effort.

I was planning my excuse on my walk back which was now uncomfortably hot inside.

I would throw myself at her mercy, and offer to drive to another store closer to town. In the end she wasn’t that bothered, and all my guilt was for nothing, but I did buy myself some beer, as you do in times of stress.