April 29, 2004
in the cosmos
I had a frustrating day. I want to complain and yell and scream, but I do believe it will not change what's gone on. I thought that driving home from frustration number one and so I decided to have fun.
I put the top down on my car and took a picture a fabulous sign to appear here in the future. I stopped at a place called "Ron's Corner Store". I figured it might be cute with some food stuff and some hardware stuff and some unspeakably ugly crafts.
But no! It was, in fact, a store full of junk. One aisle of hardware junk. At the end of the aisle were some uniform-style clothes, the VFW shirt/uniform looked most interesting to me. There were old plates and pottery. A collection of salt and pepper shakers intrigued me: they were all carved and varnished wood with the name of a place painted on them.
I was most interested in the set from Puerto Rico, but the ones from the Thousand Islands were in better shape. I resisted my urge to buy them both and therefore bought none.
In the next room was lots of old furniture. It's the kind of furniture that you might buy now at inexpensive furniture store. A step up from Target, but still not so hot. It's that kind of furniture, but used and old. Cheap, though. And that can be a good thing.
I felt weird going in there and not buying anything. I wanted to buy something, but I didn't really need those salt and pepper mementos.
They had flowers outside, though. Two dollars for a six pack (that's what she called them) of annuals. So I bought two six packs of cosmos. They'll look pretty in the back yard.
