Monday's Musings

Some things are just not worth it! That's my take on trying to get somewhere, and a comedy of error ensues. We're in the planning stages of remodeling our kitchen, so dear hubby sees an ad for a giant home remodeling show in San Diego. Well, we hop in our car and make the trek, a good two hour drive(on an good traffic day - this was not the case with us) and find ourselves reaching our destination three hours later. Well, how hard can it be to find a huge football stadium in San Diego, Qualcomm? Seems our maps aren't too accurate, the traffic in town is horrendous and we're hungry. Very hungry. We try to stop at a mall along the way and can't find parking. Not one space in all the mall. The place was packed! No healthy eating for me that day. Okay, we resigned ourselves to junk food at the Show and proceeded on, trying to find signs leading us. When we nearly reached Sea World on Mission Bay, we knew we'd made a few wrong turns.

Now, we love San Diego. We've been there a hundred times, but the freeways intersect in ten different places, the city is divided by those intersections and I must say, though we love the town, they don't have good signs. For a place with more tourist attractions than any one city I know, the signs ... suck. There simply aren't any pointing you to main attractions. But finally, after an hour and a half of searching, fighting traffic and getting better acquainted with the freeways, we find Qualcomm! The traffic getting into the stadium is unbelievable. Don can't figure it out. Why so many for a home remodeling show? Are they giving something away? Are there that many fools, like us, driving a hundred miles for this show?

The show must be great, we decided.

As we walk into the stadium, it's odd that no one is taking tickets, but there is a security guy happy to go through my purse. And finally, when we get inside and reach the field level, much to our surprise -- it's not the home remodeling show at all, but about fifty men in Charger uniforms on the field practicing! The stadium is packed with fans!! Oh, the mystery is solved. Not such a great show after all, the white tents in the parking lot,we discovered, must be the show we traveled for three hours to see! Well, by that time, all we could do was laugh. And with our stomachs growling, it's now 2 PM and we haven't eaten since 8 AM, we decided to skip the "great" show under the white tents in the parking lot, head to OLD TOWN, my favorite spot in all of San Diego for lunch and a very large margarita.

Sometimes, you just gotta know when to give up!
And I bought a great terra cotta pot for my patio palm tree in Old Town at a very good price! So ... the day wasn't a total loss.
Guess I'm a glass-half-full, kind of girl.