Last Saturday was quite the adventure. It was a rare day when Morgan had taken the boys to Roanoke for a day trip, and I got to just be… to do what I wanted and go where I felt.
It was like being at Haven… I mean in heaven.
And I ended up at the Salvation Army. I had never, ever been there. It was close to Downtown across from the park and I could hear the drum-line from the nearby high-school pounding on their percussion instruments. And you know that I walked to the beat.
Well, more like wandered…
Yes, I wandered. I wandered through the store looking for something particular, but nothing really in particular. Do you do that? You don’t know what you are looking for, but you know that you are looking for something?
And I came across a roomful of mirrors. Tall ones…short ones…wide ones…narrow ones… vintage ones…retro ones… antique-ish ones. It was a literal garden of mirrors. And I wanted them.
Well, two in particular, particularly.
And they were SO much alike, but just a bit different…Like daisies.
But as I stood there in the cramped room being overwhelmed with looking glass, I slammed into a brick wall…of pricing.
Neither mirror was terribly expensive. But there was a problem…a deep, cavernous, confusing problem that I just couldn’t wrap my head around.
One was marked ten dollars. One, Twenty. And the thoughts began to whirl around in my brain…stories of explanations…sequences of events that would lead to such an unfathomable situation. And nothing seemed to pull together to create a plausible explanation for this bizarre circumstance.
So, I wandered…around in circles. Finding desks that were too short and chairs that didn’t roll and recliners that had the distinct aura of a little old man plopping down and sitting back at the end of the day, pipe in one hand, newspaper in the other.
And before I ever started, I gave up… empty handed and mirror-less.
And as I began to walk away, I heard a voice behind me asking if there was something I wanted…
And there was. But I’ll have to tell you about it tomorrow. My rear is sore and I desperately need some sleep…
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Sore rear huh? Wondering what causes that to happen at Salvation Army?
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Oh, no! I meant from sitting in this office chair and taking too long to write this post!!!! Hahaha….
lol
I hope you’re going to tell us you boldly got them both at $10
Just have to wait and see… haha…
Looking forward to learning more about your sore patootie and who spoke to you from behind… I can envision all sorts of boldness that caused such a thing. Just not at the SA.
Hahaaaa!!!! Nope. The sore rear is not from the SA… just sitting tooooooo long at the blogggy desk…
TEASE! I now am apparently totally lost when I have time on my own too. Not sure how that happened. I used to travel on my own all the time.
Haha!
I know… When I have time just for me, I feel kinda lost… it’s weird! I guess I just need MORE time for me, so I will know what to do with it…hmmmmm….
a literal garden of mirrors…sounds lovely….
Please tell me you got both for $10??
Thanks, Amy!
I will tell… in a day or two…he.
Almost every single time I leave our goodwill, I am angry and confused. I can not begin to understand how they price things. There will be 2 identical things on a shelf, and one is twice the price of the other. WHY??! Oh – and my goodwill prices things from the $1 bin at target, $1!!!! Seriously. They slash out the $1.00 that’s on the bottom and then add their own $1 price tag. It makes me MAD!!! Haha. Had to vent. Sorry about the no-mirror situation.
FUMING! Our Goodwill has hiked the prices and I hardly ever find anything there! Blogging is awesome, but I think it has made it harder to find stuff! UGH.
You are always welcome to vent away over her, my friend!
Aghhhhh you can’t leave me hanging like this!!!!! I would have been in Haven…I mean in heaven if I had walked into that room full of mirrors!
Can’t wait to hear the rest of the story!
Oh, boy howdy. You should have seen all of those stinkin’ mirrors! It was Haven… umm, heaven!
c’mon! not nice…not at all! I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!! I WANNA SEE THE MIRROR GARDEN!!!!
WAAAAAA!
the salvage collection recently posted..decor: barn wood & update
Unfortunately, I did not have the presence of mind to pull out my dern camera and take a picture of all of that mirror-goodness… what the bleep kinda blogger am I?
Don’t answer that.