Self Storage

We managed to get to the Outlet Mall in Waterloo without getting on the New York State Thruway. We followed a car with one of the new NY license plates, the retro looking yellow ones with blue lettering. This part of the state has more trailers than Bloomington Indiana. And for some reason, in the middle of nowhere, an abundance of storage lockers. What could possibly be inside these things? We rented one for a few months when we moved Peggi’s mom up here and they cost a fortune. “Mini Storage”. Self Storage”.

All of the stores carry essentially the same stuff. Only the music is different. It was kind of fun trying to figure out the demographic they were each going for. Does eighties music appeal to those who were there or today’s kids in the midst of some sort of resurgence? We had to make a phone call arrange assistance for Peggi’s mom and couldn’t find a phone out here. We may be the only people left on the planet without a cell phone. A clerk in Calvin Klein said he thought they still had one in the food court but that was about a mile away. So we did some mall walking.

I wanted to buy another pair of Timberland work/walking shoes (work as in the stuff you do outdoors) so headed to the Timberland Outlet. I tried one one shoe on and walked around a bit looking at others. I decided to go with the first pair. I had the other shoe in my hand. I was looking at it but I couldn’t find its mate. I asked a clerk if she had put it away and I got Peggi got involved in the hunt and then it dawned on me that I had the other one on my foot. The clerk looked at Peggi and said “You’ve got a lot lot to put up with”.

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