Friday, February 18, 2011 . . .

Just finished an address label to a Ms. Sidebottom in Great Britain.  Gotta love those British names . . . 

Finally had a bird, a downy woodpecker, visit my birdfeeder.  First bird I've seen there in a couple weeks.  The gold finches ought to be showin up any time now.  

Went to Walmart around dusk recently.  I parked by the garden dept. entrance.  I saw a lady going to her car.  I thought I heard someone say something, but wasn't sure as I was parked near an idling semi.  The garden entrance was locked,  I thought nothing of it and started walkin toward the next entrance.  The lady I saw walkin to her car pulled up, rolled the window down and said, "I told you the door was locked." and drove off.  I'm left walkin to the entrance wonderin what brought that on . . . Control issues or something . . . 

I made my rounds of some thrift shops today.  One is open Fri PM and Mon AM's and is run by one of the local churches.  I found a couple glass lids in the lid box.  There was no price on them or any of the others.  The lids were in excellent condition and I can always use lids, so I took them to the check line.  This place has a unique check out procedure.  It depends on how many women show up to work.  There is usually one person to take the merchandise from you.  She hands it to another lady to bag it, unless there are extra people that day.  If there is an extra, the extra lady takes it from the first lady and hands it to the next lady to be bagged.  From there it goes to a lady runnin the addin machine.  She gives the total to the cash box lady.  I give my money to the cash box lady and take my package from another lady.  Everybody has something to do.  Well anyway, I give my lids to the first lady, saying that there is no price on them or anything in the lid box.  Another lady say, "Fifteen cents each."  I look at her and said "Fifteen cents" with a questioning voice inflection.  Another lady says,"But everything is half off this month, so you only pay fifteen cents instead of thirty."  So I decide not to argue with them and get the coins out of my pocket, saying "Well, Ok, I guess I'll hafta break my last quarter."  I let em think they won.  I usually hafta pay a buck or two at other thrift shops.