Wednesday, February 22, 2006

where's the incendiary department?

jan and i contribute pretty evenly to the "target shopping list" and when it gets long enough, whichever of us has the most free time takes the list to target. often this is me, since i am the one with random days off during the week. without fail, every time i take the list to target, one of the items that jan has added eludes me entirely. yesterday was no exception.

if someone asked you to go to target and buy some wooden matches, to which department would you go? i didn't know either. so i tried the obvious places first: camping/cookout gear. nada. firestarte
r logs and other such fireplace material. no luck. at this point i was stumped. there is no "matches" department in target. in fact, as my memory serves, i have never in my life purchased matches. bars and gas stations have provided for all of my matching needs. i had never been asked to purchase them and i have never found myself in need of them so i had no idea where to look for them. but by now it is a challenge. after a significant lack of success in the two obvious aisles, i became a woman on a mission. but sadly, a woman with no real destination. i looked everywhere in that godforsaken store. nothing. at one point i found myself thinking things like: "these are the things that i would have in the same drawer if i had matches in a drawer at my house." as logical as that seems, it did not help me. i even considered the possibility that matches are a random enough product that one might find them in the impulse buy display just before the checkout. no such luck, again. think, shelly, think. this can't be this hard. matches come from somewhere. people must buy them. and since super target now has EVERYTHING, they must have damn matches! my next strategy was to consider what people use matches for (besides camping grills and fireplaces). so i wandered down the candle aisle. lighters. no matches. and that is my status still: no matches. there are stores that are more obvious choices for wooden matches, i know this. but now i am committed. i am going to locate matches in target if it kills me. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated at this point. if you were told to buy matches at target. where would you go?

2 Comments:

Blogger Sara said...

I am suggesting the following...
-Cooking...fondue pot aisle.
-Books...for book burnings.

3:43 PM, February 22, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ask the cashier.... that seems logical.

2:00 PM, October 08, 2007  

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