Saturday, June 23, 2007

It Could Happen to You


I couldn't believe it happened to me! I never in a million years thought that it would happen. My friends wouldn't believe it if you told them too. But here I sit recollecting what I still can't believe happened...

The boyfriend and I had to stop at Home Depot and "get a few things". Every woman knows that that means; every woman that is but me. I've never fallen into the category of 'being bored' at a home building centre. There is something to be said for the smell of the freshly cut wood, the sound of the saw buzzing and the clinging of the hardware falling to the ground.

I am usually in tow of a mighty long list of items that "I need" there; whether it be a paint brush or a drill. Personally I love building centre type stores; they fascinate me with all the ornate items they carry. I always seem to find what I need there, with or without the assistance of the yet to be seen 'Sales Associates'.

Yet here I was today at a loss; I had no projects on the go, nothing to build, nothing to paint. How could I come into such a glorious place and NOT have something to buy? How could I not think of anything to buy? I dug my heels in and thought really hard of what "I needed"; with no avail I knew I was beaten. With no projects on the go; I really had no purpose to be there...like a tit on a bull.
What to do now?? I pushed the cart for the boyfriend, loaded some OSB, some patio blocks and carried the load as best I could. I had to be helpful, I had to feel important...but there it was...staring me straight in the face...

W-A-I-T-I-N-G for the boyfriend! Ugh!!! I had no more aces up my sleeve; I had to give in, I had no choice. So I did what most women in Home Depot do...I read a magazine. Yep, I never in a million years thought this day would come; but yet here I am feeling the pain of being a Home Depot Widow.

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