TheBanyanTree: Girlie Shopping

[Margaret R. Kramer]

The seat bottom of Ray’s old office chair (he found this chair in someone’s
dumpster a few years ago) had broken.  Sitting on Ray’s chair was like
having half your butt hanging over a cliff.  And my butt is so big, it needs
all the seat it can get in order not to roll off and crash onto the floor.

But Ray being Ray decided to fix it.  He took the seat off the chair frame,
set up his tools on the picnic table, and began to pull the staples off the
cushion to get at the broken bottom.  He spent a good part of the morning
removing the fake leather from the cushion.  When he was ready to fix the
bottom, he found he didn’t have a piece of wood in the garage that would
fit, so he was going to go to Home Depot and buy some wood.

But the girlie shopping spirit slipped into Ray and he bypassed Home Depot.
He decided to go shopping for fun!

He stopped at Target and went to the furniture area.  There were nice
leather office chairs for $50.  And he bought one!  Ray bought himself a
nice, comfortable chair to sit in!

Ray stopped in at a battery store and bought batteries for some of his dead
watches so they would tick tock again.

Then he stopped in at Gander Mountain with his tackle box and bought new
lures for our upcoming fishing trip to Lake of the Woods.  He bought a
minnow bucket and a little net to grab those minnows for our hooks.

I like it when he goes shopping like that . . . just like I do.  It’s kind
of a cruising shopping, looking at stuff, buying some stuff that’s needed,
and buying other stuff that’s just fun.  I’m sure he had just as much fun
picking out those lures as I do picking out books to read.

Girlie shopping.

Margaret R. Kramer
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