My sister and I got together last night for dinner and much needed catch-up sister bonding time. We met in Albertville at the outlet mall because she moved up to Sartell in the spring, and that's about half-way for us.
A little way down the road from the mall there are some little retail stores etc., Coburns'(apparently my sisters favorite new(to her) grocer), and a "Majors" grille and bar. I had never eaten there, so we decided to give it a shot. They had a special going on, you could get a 10" one topping pizza for just $4!! Sweet... so we both did that.
We caught each other up on all the drama and not drama that was going on and I shared with her stories and pictures of Belize. When we finished eating we started looking at pictures and just five short minutes into it, 50cent and other bump-n-grind songs were pumped into the speakers. Wouldn't you know, we picked the DJ night to have a good sister bonding time, ugh... owell, we drove back to my car and sat in her Jimmy looking at the rest of the pictures and jabbered for another hour and a half or so.
Close to when we were just realizing we should probably leave (it was close to 11pm), we heard a few clicks. It didn't really do anything else so it didn't phase us. Well, turns out that if you sit in a car with the radio on for a long time, it just might cause the battery to die. DOH! What the heck were we thinking?
Here the adventure starts... we of course don't have jumper cables, that would be way too convenient. Not a big deal, we'll just go to the nearest gas station and buy some, then they'll be there for future mis-haps. We get to the first gas station... closed. Second gas station.... closed. Third gas station... you get my point, closed. Damn small towners and closing early, it's all the fault of those pay at the pumps!
Then we think, oh yeah, we'll go to Coburns, they're a store, they should have jumper cables...
nope, they'd be in the gas station connected to the store which was of course.. closed. And of course they are seperate entities, so you still can't buy anything from them.
So, with two sleeping children at home, I wouldn't ever think to have Pat come down and get Karen, so I drove her home. I decided to just stay there the night and get to work early this morning... so on the way I stopped at Target and had an excuse to buy a new shirt and unmentionables... i hate the words that describe them, so anyways... (i should have put the word "panties" on my survey from wed. night about what word you hate... but I don't know if that would've been appropriate... for those of you who don't know... the leaders filled out a survey of questions and they'd read random ones for the kids to guess which leader it is/was)
So... there you have it! I'm off to a Howie Day performance... a free show in fact! Hurray for free events! Mpls Aquatennial starts up.. woop woop!
toodles all...
2 comments:
This SO sounds like a predicament I'd find myself in! Glad it all worked out for you. And you even got to buy PANTIES!! :) Love you!
NO WAY! Howie Day was playing for free? Why the heck didn't I get a call? AHHH!!! He came to the cities back in November to the Quest and I was super bummed I wasn't able to make it. "She Says" is easily one of my favorite songs. I once listened to it 28 times in a row while working on the computer for a couple hours. That is one talented guy. I for sure have to hear him the next time he is in town.
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