My luggage is long gone,
but…my dad HAD to get cherry peppers for dinner tonight, yesterday, before we left Billings. A chore that would take nearly three hours, give or take. We wouldn’t have gotten them in Glendive in time so we went to six different places looking for them, only to find naked shelves where cherry peppers used to be. I sat the first few out, but apparently, the first Walmart was sold out; Costco: absolutely nothing; another Walmart where my mom went in and came out saying, “now I’m F-N DONE! I Don’t Care Anymore”; Express Mart, where she began to care again and I became hellbent; two Albertson’s, where the last in the South Side of Billings (kinda ghetto) I scored two jars for $3. I was so proud walking back to the car, showed my dad my bounty and he simply asks, “are they HOT or Mild?”. They were hot. He needed mild so he went back in. The Mild were sold out. Cherry peppers are the new black in these parts. Right up there with lefse.
Dad gets hot cherry peppers for Christmas, like it or not.
And No one gets much of anything from me since Delta/Skywest, or somebody that happened across my discarded bag on the tarmac that works for Skywest, gets the presents I bought.
Oh well, at least my seven year old nephew surprised me by making my bed for me this morning, and of all the tens of great presents he got this morning, it seemed he was most pleased with the toothbrush in his stocking, little nutter.
…and to all a good night,
BB
Merry Christmas, Becky! Have fun in the Dive.
Shit! I thought you meant you were happy to be flying without a bike. NOT that you HAD luggage when you got on the plane and didn’t have it when you got home. Growl! I hope the rest of your vacation makes up for it!
Here’s the bag update (and this cracks me up): the big bag arrived at Glendive Airport ripped to shreds with not so much as a single handle on it out of four to start with. The shit in it was ok, but the punchline is that it has a sticker on it that reads, “RUSH. Expedite Baggage”. Three days. Imagine if it didn’t have the tag on!