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01/04/2007
End-of-Season Sale shopping sucks!
Today I decided to venture out to the shopping malls. Being January 4, I figured it wouldn't be as busy in the malls, as Boxing Day was over a week ago and people should have gotten the frenzy out of their systems. Boy was I wrong.
I went to St. Laurent Shopping Centre here in Ottawa. I don't go there very often because there's another mall closer to where I live, but this one had a place selling calendars and day planners last year, and I bought a really cool dayplanner. Also they have a Sears, and since I was looking for boots I thought that might be a good place to look. Anyway, I was at St. Laurent for all of about 2 minutes before some idiot runs over my heels with one of those kiddie push-carts - they're kind of like strollers, except they look like little plastic go-karts that the kids sit in and the parents push with a handle, like an overgrown lawnmower. Well, he tried to mow my heels with the stupid thing, not once, but twice, and didn't even bother to apologize, as if it was my fault my heels were in his way. Hello? When did civility become outdated? Anyway, I'd be willing to bet money he also drives an SUV and is one of those annoying people who drive up to within inches of your bumper if you happen to be doing anything remotely resembling the speed limit. Good riddance.
So, let's say I wasn't in such a great mood, but I decided to try shopping anyway, since I'd already invested $3.80 in bus tickets to make the trip. Most of the stores looked like they'd been hit by a hurricane, and trying to find clothing in there was basically like a trip to Frenchy's - the Atlantic Canada chain of thrift shops where everything is arranged by category in bins and it's up to you to search through it all.
Out of this whirlwind I tried to do some wardrobe shopping and came out with... (drumroll)... a pair of pants. Yes, that's it. No calendar, no day planner (that place wasn't there this year, bummer...). No sweatshirt. Though actually on the way home I stopped at that other shopping mall I was talking about and managed to find a nice toque to replace the one I somehow lost around Christmastime.
Not that it really matters much, as it went up to nearly 10 degrees (Celsius) today! Holy smokes! It feels like April, not January. It's so weird. Part of me just wishes I was in Yellowknife or something so that it actually feels like winter!
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