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Shopping late on Thanksgiving Eve
Nov. 24th, 2005 12:47 amWhich is apparently now a holiday, judging by how many places were closed and the fact that all the kids in the area had today off school. When did the four day weekend turn into a five day weekend, anyway?
( To the shopping weirdness... we realized rather late tonight that we could use a few odds and ends. )
I abandoned my basket and swung back by the house to pick up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rackham so we could try Wal-Mart (about twenty minutes away). Only when we finally got there we discovered that they'd closed at 6:00pm for the Thanksgiving holiday. Wha?!?!? There's no "Thanksgiving Eve" holiday! Why in the world would they close THAT early?!?! Did I miss a memo somewhere?
We then decided to take the "back road" (still a fairly major throughway) over to Top Foods in Woodinville, thinking we could at least look for the twine and the Crisco. ( This took longer than it should have, though, since the road we were on was blocked at one point by *ten* police cars, lights flashing. )
Finally to Woodinville at the ONLY 24 hour grocery store anywhere near us... and they've just gone up about 8,000 points in my book. They had plenty of Crisco. We asked a guy out stocking the meat section if there was any twine and he went back into the butcher block and cut us some, no charge. They even had the 40 watt indoor halogen floodlight bulb we needed! And, surprisingly, they had a nice looking 60x90 tablecloth on sale for $14.99 (I had no clue they even carried tablecloths... it was in their seasonal section).
What a night!
( To the shopping weirdness... we realized rather late tonight that we could use a few odds and ends. )
I abandoned my basket and swung back by the house to pick up
rackham so we could try Wal-Mart (about twenty minutes away). Only when we finally got there we discovered that they'd closed at 6:00pm for the Thanksgiving holiday. Wha?!?!? There's no "Thanksgiving Eve" holiday! Why in the world would they close THAT early?!?! Did I miss a memo somewhere?We then decided to take the "back road" (still a fairly major throughway) over to Top Foods in Woodinville, thinking we could at least look for the twine and the Crisco. ( This took longer than it should have, though, since the road we were on was blocked at one point by *ten* police cars, lights flashing. )
Finally to Woodinville at the ONLY 24 hour grocery store anywhere near us... and they've just gone up about 8,000 points in my book. They had plenty of Crisco. We asked a guy out stocking the meat section if there was any twine and he went back into the butcher block and cut us some, no charge. They even had the 40 watt indoor halogen floodlight bulb we needed! And, surprisingly, they had a nice looking 60x90 tablecloth on sale for $14.99 (I had no clue they even carried tablecloths... it was in their seasonal section).
What a night!
