2022 Life Logs, Day 348: Shop ‘til You Drop Day
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Weather: Rainy and Cool: High 44, Low 30 degrees F
Location: At Home with Brian and Judy Thompson on Lake Norman in NC
Much of my day was spent shopping and fighting the Mooresville traffic. When my niece Jennifer and her husband Bill got married, they moved from Akron, Ohio (where they grew up) to Mooresville. The population of the town in the late 1980’s was just over 10,000 and according to my sister there was nothing there but a small downtown business district and large, empty tracts of land. Today the population is over 50,000, but those empty tracts of land have filled with businesses. The problem is that the roads have not changed. I would rather drive in downtown Boston than in Mooresville. The traffic light waits are painful, and the traffic is bumper to bumper during much of the day. Even Interstate 77 that runs north-south is jammed with traffic. All this makes shopping take much longer than it should. Plus, I had to drive south on I-77 to Huntersville to do some of the shopping. The good news is that I am making progress in getting some additions to my sister’s wardrobe that she desperately needs, plus I am buying many of the basics that she needs and won’t ask others to buy, things like Depends. My nephew Tommy shops for her all the time, but she was almost out of Depends because she is embarrassed to ask him to get them. I get that. So, I am trying to buy enough to last until I come back in April. Then when I left my sister’s assisted living facility late in the evening, I had to find a place to eat dinner before returning to Brian and Judy’s to debrief my day with them. It made for a long day, so now I need to stop writing and get to bed. .
