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Sunday, May 27th, 2007 01:42 amToday--well, yesterday--was a day of relearning several things.
1. Going to the post office on the Saturday of a three-day weekend is a bad idea.
2. Going into Aldi on the Saturday of a three-day weekend is an even worse idea. No matter how long the lines at the post office may get, at least all the people ahead of you are highly unlikely to be buying absolutely everything they can possibly cram into a shopping cart and a few things they can't.
3. Oh, and when teaching an older man who thinks that the stamp machine in the lobby should follow obvious, common sense rules how to completely forget those rules in order to actually get the machine to do something remotely useful takes less time than it does for the line to move forward eighteen inches, it's time to get out of line and use one of the machines yourself.
4. If you go into Aldi looking for some specific item you think all grocery stores should have (orange juice, for instance), that item will not be found anywhere in the store.
5. But you may console yourself with Aldi's Choceur chocolate, which is better than any discount store-brand chocolate has any right to be.
6. Walking five miles in a day might generally be a good way to get exercise, but walking any of those miles at local noon on a hot, summery day when you have no orange juice is generally a bad idea anyway.
7. Summer nights with no air-conditioning may lead to much unpleasantness and little sleep.
8. But I do have that tasty chocolate in the fridge, so things could be worse.
( Pay no attention to the stuff behind the curtain. )
1. Going to the post office on the Saturday of a three-day weekend is a bad idea.
2. Going into Aldi on the Saturday of a three-day weekend is an even worse idea. No matter how long the lines at the post office may get, at least all the people ahead of you are highly unlikely to be buying absolutely everything they can possibly cram into a shopping cart and a few things they can't.
3. Oh, and when teaching an older man who thinks that the stamp machine in the lobby should follow obvious, common sense rules how to completely forget those rules in order to actually get the machine to do something remotely useful takes less time than it does for the line to move forward eighteen inches, it's time to get out of line and use one of the machines yourself.
4. If you go into Aldi looking for some specific item you think all grocery stores should have (orange juice, for instance), that item will not be found anywhere in the store.
5. But you may console yourself with Aldi's Choceur chocolate, which is better than any discount store-brand chocolate has any right to be.
6. Walking five miles in a day might generally be a good way to get exercise, but walking any of those miles at local noon on a hot, summery day when you have no orange juice is generally a bad idea anyway.
7. Summer nights with no air-conditioning may lead to much unpleasantness and little sleep.
8. But I do have that tasty chocolate in the fridge, so things could be worse.
( Pay no attention to the stuff behind the curtain. )
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