Or… not. I had good intentions. But by the time I got to the newly opened upscale grocery store Plum Market tonight, I could not handle the parking lot. Kee-reist. It’s a lot that I have been parking in for almost 30 years now! Back when Minifab was there I’d frequently go there a couple times in a day. (I miss Minifab.) Today, I could not do it. At every turn, I thought I would get hit. I did get a picture. Or two.

It took me an hour to get home last night. I already wrote about that. Then I spent almost an hour going to work this morning. I left 15 minutes early. I knew it would be a little messy and I don’t like to take the freeway when it’s like that because there are too many crazies out there and if there’s an accident, you are just plain stuck! Well, it was messy on the surface streets but it wasn’t terrible and no precipitation. But. I sat through every red light on earth, and actually ran a red light turning left from Scio Church to that street over there behind Target. I was stuck behind someone going 20 mph f-o-r-e-v-e-r. It wasn’t *that* bad out there and he (?) had a blasted minivan, fer kee-reist. *Finally* he (?) turned off of my route. But as I turned onto South State at Ellsworth, I almost immediately found myself in a dead stop. What on earth could it be? We inched along. A young punk with Florida plates tried an intrepid move to pass everyone and make a left turn into where Fedex lives (and a whole bunch of other stuff). He spun out. Fortunately he didn’t hit me anyone or the semi that was waiting to come *out* onto the street he was trying to go into. Those semi guys were just cracking up. Me, not so much. 20 minutes later or so, I found out that there had been an accident at the stoplight right outside the business park where my work is. It didn’t look too serious but vee-hickles had to be towed and one lane was blocked so we were being funneled through one lane at a time.

Getting home this afternoon was as easy as it gets but, with the new store, the sleepy old Maple Village parking lot was a zoo. So I took a picture and left. And when I took the picture I didn’t realize that I was taking pics of a Mercedes Benz (right?) and a Volvo. Sheesh. If I have to shop with the bleached-blonde botox crowd, I think I will die. Or vomit or whatever. Which wouldn’t be a good thing because I’d probably get kicked out of the store. Hmm, maybe Stefanie was right.

Oh, yeah. I took a second picture. It’s in the same shopping center. Even before Christmas, the Big KMart lot looked like this. That is empty. It was like that even before Christmas. Drr, yeah, I said that already. I’ve never been a big KMart fan and we won’t go into that now but it used to be hard to find a place to park there. I guess *I* could’ve parked there. But I could’ve *walked* too. I’ll guess that my house and KMart are about equidistant from Plum Market. And you know. I *could* walk there. When I shop at “upscale” grokkery stores, I usually buy around two big bags of food or less. Usually less. I could definitely walk home with that. It’d be about like walking out to the netherlands of any of the Meijer parking lots.

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