{"id":90,"date":"2010-08-08T01:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2010-08-08T01:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T05:20:03","slug":"the-slippery-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"The slippery slope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Donald has moved in upstairs and lets me drive his car whenever I want to, I feel like I’m becoming one of those dreaded suburbanites who drives everywhere! I’m already doing all my grocery shopping by car, so I can go to the locally-owned greengrocer with lots of local produce, instead of going to the yuppie lifestyle conglomerate, Whole Foods (which I could get to easily without the use of fossil fuels … but I digress). Today I had to buy flat silver sandals for a wedding in early September, and instead of taking public transportation downtown, I drove Donald’s car to the Burlington Mall. A big mall in the suburbs, where no one takes public transportation. A big mall with free parking.<\/p>\n

My excuse was that it would have taken me at least an hour to take public transportation downtown. Each way. It’s less than 30 minutes to drive to the mall. I simply didn’t have the extra time to spare. I needed the sandals. I was on a deadline.<\/p>\n

But that’s always how it starts, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I did find silver sandals. I also found a nice pair of brown sandals that I liked, that seemed quite comfortable. And an umbrella, because my last one broke well over a year ago, and I still hadn’t replaced it yet.<\/p>\n

And, finally, the piece de resistance:<\/p>\n

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They sat on a shelf at Sears, right in the middle of the main aisle down the center of the store, and virtually demanded that I buy them. As it happens, I didn’t have any rain boots either, and had been thinking that I should get some. Aren’t they special?<\/p>\n

In Japan, pretty much every major tourist destination sells themed Hello Kitty souvenirs in the gift shop: key chains or cell phone charms or the like that show Hello Kitty dressed in the local costume, or in a local setting. They’re very cute. You could probably travel much of Japan on a Hello Kitty pilgrimage, picking up special local Hello Kittys everywhere you went.<\/p>\n

You could probably do it by public transportation, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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