Today my Dad asked me to go with him to Home Depot to help him bring some sheets of plywood home. I thought this was going to be a quick trip into town and back again, so I said yes. Much to my chagrin, the trip was not just to Home Depot, it was also to Auto Advance. “I’ll only be a couple of minutes, honey, I just need to buy some oil and a filter.” So I waited in the car, reading the Sunday paper, for forty-five minutes! Finally I decided I’d better go inside and find him and drag him out of there. I found him standing in line at the check-out counter, with much more than some oil and a filter in his hands!
The cashier was incredibly slow in processing the order, and I was getting tired and cranky, anxious to get home before even getting to Home Depot! We headed off to Home Depot, where once inside he met an old friend that he hadn’t seen in months and so he had to chat with him for a half hour before even getting through the door! So I went into Home Depot and started shopping from the list we had made up, to get things going.
Lesson learned, next time Dad says “would you come with me to…….” if I want to get home within the same four hour period of time, the answer should be NO!