Today we went shopping. We avoided Black Friday like the plague--and we avoided "black" Saturday too--thinking there would be huge crowds everywhere. So we went today.
As usual for us, we did not leave at the crack of dawn--nor at the "crack of noon"--we left about 3:30. A much more comfortable time for us to shop. Our first stop was the grocery store. It was strange going into the parking lot because there were handicapped places available. We live in Geezerville where most of the geezers have handicapped parking permits (I exaggerate only slightly). Given that, it's always hard to find a handicapped parking place--yet there were 3. My first thought was "what is going on?" but, I did not think anything weird was going on yet.
In the store there were electric carts available for the other DrC --now this is strange. There are never carts available. What is going on? In the store, there are a few people shopping. There's always geezers shopping at Smith's but today it looked like a ghost town. It was easy to maneuver around the store and check out was a breeze because there were no lines.
Second stop was the post office. I did not expect anyone there and there wasn't. That was normal.
Third stop was Walmart. Now Walmart is our BIG store. It has everything. It's always jammed with shoppers and the parking lot is always full (except for the places miles from the door). Today I drove into my favorite aisle and there were 4 handicapped parking places. Now I know something weird is going on. The rest of the parking lot was not crammed with cars either. Are the geezers asleep this afternoon or what?
Once in the store, there are NO electric carts by the door ..first "normal" thing we've seen in Walmart. BUT, DrC went to the other door and there were 8 carts, fully charged and ready to go. We took our carts and went shopping. We found what we needed in record time because again, not a geezer in sight. Where were the geezers? They were not shopping...or driving. I'm guessing they were asleep or watching a game?
From this non-scientific study of one late afternoon the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I conclude that today was the best day to shop in Geezerville. It's not a big study but I went to all the important places in town and NO ONE was out. I don't know why there were no geezers out and about in Geezerville...but they weren't. This might be a good piece of information to know. Remember, we're all in this together.
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