It all started with an innocent trip to Office Depot for one item – a package of printer-ready postcard paper. But I walked in the door to one of my favorite times of the year: Back to School! Yes, it is still July, which is technically the middle of the summer but in the increased pace of the retail world calendar ... it's Back to School time.
I started to rove amongst the displays of colorful notebooks, pens, locker shelves – hey, where were those when I had a locker. I had to build my own (and I feel it’s made me a better person). My heart starts to beat faster at all the cool new things. The smell of new pens and Elmer’s Glue makes me giddy.
Oh look, Sharpie has a collection of cool highlighters (need them for my “old fashioned time sheets”). I must have them. Oh look, cool new mechanical pencils, and a small scissors with a cover (perfect for card class). And a softsided Mead pencil case you can open, fold over and make stand up like a can (another thing perfect for card class to haul my gluesticks and scissors).
I started to hyperventilate. Luckily I was roaming the aisles sans basket. I do less damage at checkout when I can only carry so much. I made it out of the store with some fun new things and nothing frivolous... no, really, everything purchased has a job to do in my hectic life.
I went on with my errands that were fairly uneventful until I hit the SuperTarget…. Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!
3 comments:
OfficeMax! Wow! My favorite store, but only for the pencils, the mechanical ones, especially the Pentels and the Papermates. Not interested in the tech stuff, the locker shelves, the glue sticks or anything else, but the pencils, they are my first love (after Mrs. Ograc of course). Sudoku, crosswords, long division, all the wonderful things that can be done with pencils, especially the ones with twist out erasers. Oh Yeah, and they have to carry 0.5mm lead.
Oh yeah - my mechanical pencils have to be just right for my Sudoku! Glad you can relate. :-)
"...locker shelves – hey, where were those when I had a locker. I had to build my own (and I feel it’s made me a better person)."
Totally!! *lol*
You should see all the new colors for the perm marker Sharpie's...Eggplant, Khaki, Lime Green, Burgundy, ....ohhhh it's heaven!!
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