Listening

[Not Afraid]

UGH! Tissue. Something so simple becomes such an issue.

We went to a party last night that incuded a nice (as opposed to tacky) gift exchange but the cost had to be under $10. We decided to go to the Z Gallerie and pick up stuff from their upstairs sale floor. I had brought with me some christmas gift bags and festive tissue paper so I could wrap in the car on the way to the party.

With 24 minutes max on our meter and a parking citation vehicle roaming the streets, we found two appropriate gifts, rushed down stairs to the slowest check out ever and bought our stuff. I explained that a) we had about 3 minutes left on our meter and b) I didn't need these things wrapped up because I was just going to wrap them for a party in the car. BUT, If they could give me some tissue, that would be great.

Apparently, that was a very difficult task I requested them to undertake. I had to reitterate what I wanted about 20 times (saying the word "tissue" WAAAAY too many times) and they STILL wrapped stuff in heavy paper that I didn't want.