11/14/08
I decided while I was mundanely rolling along I might as well get the complete mundane experience and go shopping for women’s clothes, hence I’m being a well rounded mundaner, taking dominion over every aspect if you will of the mundane experience. Truth be known I was so tired and felt so exhausted that I was nearly brain dead and knew that if I didn’t get out I would hate myself for zombing the day away.
I decided in order for me to make sure that it was a fully mundane (a real woman’s clothing) experience that I would go armed with coupons. Hey don’t laugh, I’m not a coupon person, not that I’m against coupons but I’m just not into being that organized. I went to the new shopping center to one of the stores that I had received a coupon from to begin my steps. I looked in the teen area and found some possibilities; but really I do get tired of being nearly 53 and shopping for my clothes in the pre-mature clothing area and since I’m mundaning it I needs must check out the women’s area. I did a foray across the aisle and found some stuff I liked but not my size. I was thinking about settling but decided to see just what the coupon would entail and would you believe it was one day out of date. I was not upset since it actually saved me from simply settling for the simple fact of getting something cheaper than it was marked but probably in my opinion still paying too much for. I headed for the car having wasted at least 45 min. and feeling a bit more awake. It was a lovely day and as I glanced around I realized I had a coupon from my Texas shopping trip I had with Mom and Dad for a shop at the other end of the shopping center. I smiled and started walking, the car was fine where it was and after all, this trip was mostly about stepping out and waking up. Before entering the store I checked the coupon for dates and found that it was well within the allotted time span for getting the percentage off but had a sneaky addendum, it couldn’t be used for sale priced items. Okay, date, checked, parameters set, I was good to go. I decided however because of not being an oft coupon user to check with the sales lady to make sure that a coupon received in Texas was good for a store here in Va. She checked it out and gave the go ahead.
Now to blunder around and find something worth using the coupon on was the next step. This turned out not to be so easy since it seemed like everything in the store was on sale. One thing I did take note of was though this was the same store chain in which I had shopped in Texas the clothes were of a completely different style. Finally up against the wall I found a stack of turtlenecks which were extremely cheap in any case but the coupon brought the price down even more. I got a (wanna guess what color?) black one. Mission accomplished I could go home now.
Arriving home I decided to divest my new turtleneck of it s ‘made in…’ tag and got a shock. I can’t remember to my knowledge ever buying something made in Jordan (okay at least not women’s clothes though when in Israel I can’t be sure something I bought didn’t have its origins from Jordan). Yeah, not China, not some Latin country but Jordan, that tiny little nation next to Israel, which has the city of Petra in it and a King who I happen to think is an okay guy, actually I think he is a good king for Jordan. Wow, suddenly my mundane shopping trip had all sorts of implication, Jordan a country which came into existence after WWII, one which controlled Jerusalem but lost it in the 6 Day War.
Paraphrasing Zech. 4:10 who despises the day of small beginning? You will yet see this work finished.
My day was begun to pass time instead of merely waste it, Jordan a country begun for political expediency, both yielded unexpected outcomes. Small steps, small countries may have greater impact than we realize at the first. I don’t suppose my turtleneck will have some glorious purpose but getting out and coming across it and its origins did. Mundane steps accumulate from a small beginning to a finished work, hmm, just where will my steps take me before my day is finished?
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