November 22, 2014
You wouldn't know that only twelve hours had passed. I woke up this morning to bright sunshine.
After the last couple of days of grey and wet it's like we weren't in Kansas anymore. The lovely Lisa was up before me again and the aroma of drippy Joe filled the house. Drippy Joe in hand, I was in front of the computer, putting together yesterday's blog, it was so sunny in the backyard I had to open the window.
For about two minutes, maybe. Still freakin cold at 9:00 am!
Today was the day I was taking my brother-in-law Peter clothes/shoe shopping. He was meeting us at our house at 11:00.
He called about 10:45 to say that he'd slept in and was going to be a little bit late. Not a problem he's usually an hour, an hour and fifteen minutes early. The lovely Lisa was at one point going to take Peter and Mama Lee on the shopping trip.
I've done this rodeo before! That way lies madness!
The last time we did a family shopping trip, it turned what should have been a two-hour get Peter some pants day into five hours of living hell. Today was a breeze! I drove straight down the hill from our house to Marks. Mama Lee said to take Peter there because they were having a big sale. Also they sell the kind of stuff that Peter wears.
Peter asked if he could get three pairs of pants.
I asked him "Why do you need three pairs of pants, when you only have one pair of legs?" Peter didn't get it.
Mama Lee is footing the bill for Peter's shopping trip. I tried to phone her and see what kind of budget she was working with. She didn't answer her phone so I made an executive decision. I would shop for Peter like it's not my money. Which it isn't. We decided on two pairs of pants and a pair of black shoes.
We pulled into the parking lot at Marks and the shopping trip was on. First we got him some shoes. Plain black and clunky. What you might call sensible shoes.
Peter wanted a pair of black dress pants. He mans a kettle for the Salvation Army every Christmas time. And he just wants to look sharp.
We picked out a nice pair of pants, pleated front and deep pockets.
We found the right size on the second pair he tried on. I went and found him a pair of navy blue cargo pants of the same size. He was happy with everything.
"Are we still going to McDonalds for lunch, Dave?"
"Yes we are Peter soon as we pay for the clothes."
When we went to pay all the cashiers were busy. We stood patiently in the wrong place waiting our turn. We were standing with a clear shot to the cashier who looked over and smiled at us periodically. It seems that to get to the cashier you're supposed to go between these racks loaded with stocking sized gifts. Of course there was no sign and the cashier who'd been smiling at me for the last three and a half minutes didn't bother to tell me that. Until I came up to the cash out of turn.
"You need to come in from the other end, sir" she said still smiling.
There was only one lady in front of me. Its not like it was a big deal
but she insisted that we go in front of her.
"You were here before I was, you go first." I thanked her and moved Peter away from the doodads. We only waited a minute and we were up at the cash. On the counter they had a display with high end gumdrops from Jones Soda Company. Peter told me he really needed to have them because he's going to quit smoking right after this pack. They did come in a fancy tin! All in all not too bad. We were in and out within forty minutes.
I had told Peter I would take him for lunch he wanted to go to McDonalds. There's a Rotten Ronnies right near his place.
He had an Angus burger with fries and a soda. I had coffee. We were only a few blocks away from Peter's home. I dropped Peter off and then headed back to our place. Lisa was starting to get into Christmas mode.
We had taken the Christmas decorations out of the attic first thing in the morning. Five rubbermaid bins and two cardboard boxes. It's just the beginning. The lovely Lisa is an Elf of the highest order.
She puttered around with strings of lights and giant bows and all kinds of different doohickeys. We were having dinner with Annie and Willy at the Rivers Reach. We were meeting them at 5:30. I hid in my office for the two hours before we left. Playing computer games and practising on my casio keyboard. I don't help the lovely Lisa with decorating the house. The last time I did, we nearly ended up in divorce! It's not helped by living next door to Crazy Alice the Christmas Elf and her minion Next door Gord.
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| Next door Gord's lights |
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| Our lights |
We stopped by Mama Lee's for a few minutes on our way to dinner to show her pictures of what we bought for Peter. She was very pleased with our choices.
Annie and Willy were waiting when we got there. They had just gotten a table. The place was as usual, packed
the Rivers Reach is one of the better run pubs that I have been in recently. They run a lot of food specials. The food is very good
and the service is always excellent. Except for tonight.
Annie and Willy had already been served their drinks and hadn't seen the waitress since. Lisa and I join the table and sat there for close to fifteen minutes without anyone even saying, "Yo, what's up? "
We finally went up to the bar to order drinks and complain. They were very concerned that we had waited so long and were quick to take care of us. It turns out that our waitress, while clearing a table, splashed hot sauce on her face and got some in her eye. OUCH!!
I once, in the middle of a drunken hot wings spree, made the mistake of going to the bathroom without washing my hands first.
Pocket Squatch was not happy for a couple of hours!!
She was definitely off her game all night between her burning eyeball the worst dye job in the history of hair dyeing she was having a bad night. Her hair looked like somebody puked skittles on her.
That's when Duffy showed up. Duffy's selling cars down in White Rock and he had just gotten off work. All the dealerships do the big Christmas promotions. Buy your wife a car and you will have sex for a year, or till the first scheduled maintenance. Or until the new car smell is gone.
We were served by another waitress who took our food and drink order, brought brought us our drinks and was never seen again.
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| Too much food |
From then on our original waitress was back red eyed and slightly grumpy. We ate our fill, I had a couple of Coors light and then we went to Annie and Willy's for a pot of tea and a play date for Elvis and Nutmeg with Mac and Lincoln. Willy had taped a documentary on the musicians who performed on the movie Oh, Brother Where Art Thou. It was good for me because I love that music. The lovely Lisa, not so much. I was proud of her, she never snored, even when she nodded off. Tea and biscuits and the years first fruit cake. Home by midnight asleep by 3:00 am. Blogless!
That's all I got
Till next time
Peace out Y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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