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December 16, 2006
Shopping on Saturday
I wish I could tell you, in detail, what I did today. However, it is close to Christmas and what I did involves shopping and I wouldn't want to give too much away.
I will say that I picked up a gift for one of the boys.
I won't go into too much detail about ending up in a store in which I saw a bong for the first time in what, 25 years? (I did not buy anything for my kids in this store.)
Elsewhere, I bought a new weight bench for the garage. Right now I've got two Olympic benches sitting next to each other and this eats up a lot of floor space. One of the benches has the bench configured as a seat all the time so I'd really be able to get by with something a lot narrower. Today I bought that something.
Buying it was harder than it sounds. I started out at Dick's Sporting Goods as they were running an ad for a bench and some light dumbbells. I don't really need the dumbbells, but the price for the bench was pretty good. I really didn't care for the way it adjusted -- the strip of metal that held the seat up was probably more than adequate, it just hit my eye funny.
So I shot off to The Sports Authority. They had a bench, without the dumbbells and with a different label, that was very similar to the first bench I didn't like 100%. It was $20.00 more and had the same adjustment mechanism.
They had another bench that I almost liked a lot. So I sat and agonized over what to do ... which is pretty much how I shop. (I sooo wish I could tell you about my experience in the bong store, the agonizing I did there, and the conversation I had with the very helpful sales gal.)
Anyway, as I agonized a sales dude asked if he could help me and I made an instant decision.
I got the bench (bee-onch, in the hood) I almost liked a lot.
Hey ... it was 50 degrees out today. I rode the Schwinn for an hour.
Posted by delmer at December 16, 2006 6:48 PM
Comments
Questions....
Did you get your breakfast at Mel's?
Did you buy a bong after all the agonising?
What on earth does "hit my eye funny" mean?
and finally, what is 50F in real numbers? (sorry couldn't resist that!)
Posted by: Pen at December 17, 2006 8:32 AM
Oh yes. Breakfast at Mel's yesterday *and* today.
I took a pass on the bong, though when I mentioned the shopping outing to someone here they asked if I'd noticed whether or not the store had a 'one hitter' (I had not noticed 'one hitters' ... not that I would have unless they had a big ONE HITTERS sign on them).
"Hit my eye funny," is part of the agonizing process. I didn't care for the way it looked. Which doesn't mean I wouldn't buy it ... Sort of like the shoe-buying process women go through. (Had I had a gym bag that matched the bench, I would have been more inclined to buy it despite any of its other shortcomings)
50F is 10C ... and today it will be 15 or 16 C (60-something F)
Posted by: delmer at December 17, 2006 11:18 AM