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Slice of Life: A Cheeky Perspective on Small Town Errands
Post office — check
Reason 1 — Mail five jewelry sales and one poetry book sale at the local post office.
Reason 2 — Buy packing tape because the tape I had from our move is “lost!”
Look up post office hours on the internet before driving into town.
Note they are closed for two hours over the lunch hour.
Go around the block to find parking.
The entire main street is ripped up and closed off.
Still.
Park across from the place that sells rocks — big rocks.
Walk to the post office, avoiding the rubble on the road.
Look both ways before crossing the street, even though there is no traffic!
Notice a path is worn through the grass to the door.
Library — check
Reason — Return the read, borrowed books that are due in two days.
Find more books.
Go into stacks to find more from the same author I just read. Yeah, I do that.
William Kent Krueger, it’s you and your books. You’ve written a lot!
