2nd day before Christmas...

Ok, Hubby and I did the unthinkable last night. We went to the new Wal-Mart stoopidstore (I hate wal-mart!) on the southside at 1030 pm! Apparently this store is open 24 hours, so like the sillies we are, we thought we'd check it out late in the evening, on the last Saturday before Christmas. Hubby's reason? "I like to see the kerfuffle!" And of course I'm just along for the ride, and to possibly get a couple of last minute stocking stuffers. So we get to the store and the parking lot is PACKED!!! Yup, 1030 at night. We get inside the store and the line-up are HUGE! At 1030 at night. We look at each other and set out the challenge. 25 minutes, we both seperate and go hunting for respective stocking stuffers, meet at the front door at 1100. So off we go. After a couple of unsuspecting run-ins to each other (I ran like a freak pushing my mini buggy each time I saw him, it was funny), I made it into a fairly short line at the self-checkouts. Short line means about 10 people in front of me. Sat there for about 10 minutes as the same lady tried to check herself through the self-check out. I began rolling my eyes, then saw an opening in the line beside me for a closer self-check out and dashed into it before anyone looked! Only 4 people in front of me now! "What the heck????" That fourth person in line was feeding the self-checkout with all their loose change??!!?? They started digging through their pockets and her purse to get all their loose change. Which I guess would be fine if you continuously fed it in...but these people would pop in a nickel, then watch for the total to register on the computer screen. Then pop in another nickel. Oh lordy! They kind of smiled to the people in front of me and said "We like to use up our change!" All I could think was, people, you just don't get it, do you. Regardless, I got through the checkout in about 15 minutes. I saw hubby waiting for me at the doorway....empty handed. He promptly pointed out his deserted cart in a line up of about 100 people long. He said "Forget this noise! And abandoned his cart with my stocking stuffers in it. As disappointed as I was, I had to laugh. He just doesn't know the art of looking for the shortest line up. And apparently the other 100 people in that line don't know either!

So that was the trip to the ginormous store where you can do all your shopping in on trip. Honestly? I won't be heading back there anytime soon.