Sunday, December 25, 2022

Christmas Eve 2022

 It was over 50 F by the time I walked to church yesterday afternoon for a brief choir rehearsal.  Had picked up the car earlier in the day, during the deluge, wading through flooded intersections, the slightest slope becoming a river.  I could've driven, but I'd landed a free parking spot on my street, so chose to keep it.  Sometimes I have to park a mile away, which I didn't feel like doing.  I in caught a bus back home, I was confused when it stopped to pick me up, it said it was going "To Terminal" and there wasn't anyone else on it.  And then I forgot to pay, even though I was holding my pass in my hand; he had to remind me to come back up and pay.  Got off three stops later to make a run to the store before it closed.  Fifteen minutes, and it was still pretty busy.  They aren't open today, and I think people stayed home on Thursday.  It was chaotically busy in the morning, but maybe it just seemed that way because it so rarely is: most days it seems to primarily be people filling online orders.  The lines were long, people seemed maybe a little stressed, out of practice of shopping, being in a crowd, not paying attention to where they were going, or stopping, or blocking.

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