Tonight was a crazy night and definitely the worst night ever to get locked out of your house. According to NY Times, around 9 inches of snow has fallen though it feels much worse. Expecting this storm, my mother came home and parked her car under a bridge hoping the car won't get too buried in snow. Despite the storms, Christmas is a coming and we are woefully behind in our shopping. So we decided we'd take the bus to Queens Center Mall for some shopping.
I was pretty disappointed with the mall. My xmas gifts consist of knitted items and books and can you believe it?!? there's not one bookstore in that mall. In my mind that makes it the worst mall ever. Also since my camera went walkies, I was hoping to take a look at some cameras at the mall to get an idea of what I will get myself. Not one decent electronics store there either.
I ended up buying no xmas gifts, just a winter coat for myself (a definite need! especially with all that snow coming down) and I also got some silver hoop earrings (60% off at JC Penneys). I'll have to schlep to Borders next week sometime to pick up the books necessary to complete my gifts.
So we get home and snow is everywhere.
My mother immediately gets the shovel to start shoveling and I go for my key. I have just the one key and I always keep it in the little front pocket of my jeans. The key was not there. I checked my coat pockets, not there. I throw everything out of my bag and go through it slowly - NO KEY!. My mother keeps plugging away with the shovel as I tell her I have no key. I'm trying to figure out what could have happened and then remembered that I'd stopped at The Gap and tried on some pants. I'm guessing the key fell out of my pocket.
As we hadn't taken the car, my mother had left her car keys in the house on which was her house key. She remembered that one of her friends had a spare key for the house so she called her and told her we were locked out and mentioned that she didn't even have her car keys (by this meaning that we couldn't go into the car to stay warm). Anyhow, the friend shows up 30 min later with her spare car keys thinking she was locked out of her car. While waiting for her, our pizza arrived. We had ordered pizza when we were around 10 min from home on the bus for dinner. So we were stuck standing in the cold, eating our pizza and watching cars stall in the drifts outside . When said friend showed up without the house keys, we all had to bundle into her car, drive back to her house for the house key and then come back home (we didn't take my mom's car as that would mean cleaning the car, shovels, etc). Our feet were wet and frozen and we were pretty miserable.
So that was my evening! Now I'm enjoying some Will Smith in Enemy of the State and I think I'm finally feeling warm enough.
Up to my knees in snow:
Outside the mall:
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