Rainy day Chrismas shopping

[Clipper]

It poured during the night and into this morning, but has finally slowed to a light but steady drizzle.

Kathy wants to do some more Christmas shopping so umbrellas and a light jacket will be the order of the day.

Lunch with friends at Longhorn Steak House and then we will be off on a multi-stop, two city shopping adventure. She needs to visit stores in both Kingsport AND Johnson City so I have downloaded a couple of Netflix movies to the Ipad and will take my thermal travel mug filled with hot and black McCafe.

While she wanders among the ruthless and rude Christmas shopping hoard I will simply relax, watch a movie, drink my coffee, and maybe even tilt the seat back and take a little power nap. My shopping is almost done and I go shopping early in the day when the ruthless hoard is working or not out and about yet.

For all my friends in the Utica area, if you venture out put a couple of rolls of quarters in your pockets for ballast. I wouldn't want any of you to be carried off by the gusty winds. As for me? No quarters necessary. It would take more than a passing gust to carry my fat butt away.

[BHU]

I was out early this a.m., out the door by 0815. Hit Wally World New Hartford for a new filter for our Pur faucet filter & a couple odds & ends, then off to Haps for some ground beef & some hot cappy & cheese. Neither store was busy but by now New Hartford up & down Commercial Dr has got to be a sh*t show. It's rainy & gloomy out so I'll be on the recliner with a cup of New England coffee by my side, avoiding the mob. Har, har, har.

[Clipper]

We had a nice lunch with our friends at Longhorn. I occasionally get sick of steak. Longhorn has a dinner called "cowboy pork chops." Hot bread, strawberry lemonade, a salad, two 8 ounce porkchops with Longhorn seasoning, and a big sweet potato with butter and cinnamon sugar. The calculator probably would have blown up in smoke if I tried to calculate the calorie and cholesterol numbers for that feast.

Watched a movie in the car while she shopped in Kingsport, and when we got to Johnson City she decided to shop a Belk's Department Store. They actually have a customer lounge with a TV and vending machines designed especially for customers to relax while waiting for their spouses to shop. I bought a vending machine coffee and watched tv while she shopped. Gotta love vending machine coffee. Tasted like mud and left and thick layer of sludge in the bottom of the cup, haha.

[BHU]

It was probably Maxwell House. Lol

[clarencebunsen]

Fill a Stanley stainless steel thermos with Folger's before you leave the house. Throw in a sleeve of Girl Scout cookies from the box in your freezer and you can wait out a shopping trip. Vending machine coffee? I think that violates the Geneva Convention.

[Clipper]

Dec 4, 2022 11:24:20 GMT -5 clarencebunsen said:

Fill a Stanley stainless steel thermos with Folger's before you leave the house. Throw in a sleeve of Girl Scout cookies from the box in your freezer and you can wait out a shopping trip. Vending machine coffee? I think that violates the Geneva Convention.

I did take along my Contego travel cup filled with McCafe but the shopping lasted longer than my coffee, lol. The Contego cup is the best I have ever had. It was a gift a couple years ago. It keeps coffee for hours without it getting tepid or cold.