Holiday Shopping.....

I was so excited to finish my shopping for Christmas. I had done most of my shopping online and early in the year to avoid the madness of the malls and department stores. I still however had a few things I needed to buy.
I asked a friend who has lived in Lafayette for over twenty years “What is traffic like during the holiday?”
Her response was “oh, not that bad! Don’t, worry about it.” I of course, took her statement literally.

So, yesterday I ventured out to the mall. I was cruising at A GOOD PACE when I had to come to a stretching halt. I thought to myself “wow, there must be an accident or something.”
After sitting in that same spot for over twenty minutes I realized that it was not any accident but in fact the traffic on one certain road that runs in front of all the “big” stores. It was so slammed with cars that it was over flowing onto the other streets. I sat in that one spot for over thirty minutes! It took me over 45 minutes to get two miles up the road.
I thought to myself “well, thank God I went the bathroom before I left or I would have a problem.” But then my gas light went on. Holy Mollie!! I was going to run out of gas right in muddle of the road and I would have to get out six months pregnant and push my car to the side of the road.
After five minutes of panicking, I decided to try to change lanes so that if I did run out of gas I could just coast to the side of the road. What is it about the holiday that it brings the “crazy” out in people? All I wanted to do was get over and not a single car would let me …They honked at me like “how dare you even ask!”

I spent three hours shopping and out of those three hours, one and half was sitting in traffic! When I asked my friend why she didn’t tell me how the bad traffic really was is she said “I said don’t worry about it but I didn’t say it wouldn’t happen!”
The Moral of the story is never take a Cajuns word for it.

Oh, and next Christmas I’m going shopping with water, snacks, a full tank of gas and a pee-pee jar!