Life After Windbird, Day 119: Arrival in Nashville
Date: Friday, December 9, 2016
Weather: Partly Sunny; High Temp 36, Low 21 degrees F
Location: At Home with Patsy and Joe in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
I did arrive at Nashville International last night just before mid-night and arrived at my sister’s about 12:30 am. Patsy is a night owl, so she was up waiting for me. Joe had gone to bed and we had our reunion this morning. Joe made his famous Nancy Jane eggs for me for breakfast and Patsy and I did a little online Christmas window shopping. Technically, I guess you would call that monitor shopping. Then Patsy and I took off to do real time food shopping. I wanted to go to Whole Foods which is just south of Nashville. With no traffic, it takes about 30 minutes to get there. And as long as we were in the area, we stopped at Costco as well. I won’t go into all the details, but we had some ‘interesting’ experiences. The first one was when we returned to the car after shopping at Whole Foods. The front driver’s door was wide open and I was the culprit. When we arrived, I had recommended that we get bags out of the trunk. So I evidently went to the driver’s side of the car, opened the door, and popped the trunk. But then after going back to get the bags, I forgot to shut the door. Luckily people are honest and nothing was taken from inside the car. Then we went to Costco and things got even more interesting. When we got in line to check-out, Patsy headed to the bathroom, giving me her credit card just in case she didn’t get back before check-out. The lines were long and it took quite a while to get to the register. Still no Patsy. Then there were issues because I had Patsy’s credit card but my Costco card. It took an incredibly long time to check out and still there was no Patsy. I moved the buggy out of the check-out area and waited. Still no Patsy. At this point, I got worried that something had happened. I drove the cart down to the bathrooms, and there was no Patsy. Yikes! I had gotten a call from Joe a few minutes prior but the phone said it was from Patsy. She had left her phone at home, so I couldn’t call her. I finally looked out toward the exit to the store and spotted her. She was as baffled as me. She had come back from the bathroom quickly and couldn’t find me in line. I have no idea how we didn’t see each other, but it happened. She was sure something bad had happened to me and I thought something bad had happened to here. The whole mix-up extended our short shopping trip into a long shopping trip sending us home in the midst of Friday afternoon rush hour traffic with an accident on the road. But we made it and I have the ingredients to make my morning smoothie and some turkey bone broth. Now I just have to find time to make those things.
Tomorrow morning my niece Janet will pick me up by 9 am and I will accompany her on her weekly Saturday morning visit with some of Nashville’s homeless population. She distributes a newspaper that homeless people purchase and sell for a profit. She loves this project and her ‘clients’ and really wants me to meet them. While we are doing that, her partner Monica will pick up Patsy and Joe and we will all meet downtown for the afternoon performance of The Nutcracker. Hopefully, we’ll all have our own cell phones so we can find each other if we get lost!
