Saturday Morning At Bunnings

It's Saturday,that wonderful day of the week when,if you are fortunate enough to work Monday to Friday, you can choose your activities for the day instead of heading off to your place of employment.

This morning, after an early start. Having completed the weekly laundry, we headed off to our local Bunnings (hardware) store to pick up a couple of items. That is funny, because its like saying one is going to Spotlight, the ladies equivalent (haberdashery) store for a couple of things, one rarely exits the place without a few extra things that catch ones eye while prowling the aisles.

My mind was in a good place and I enjoyed our visit. We easily found the three items that we wanted and then tried to find the quickest checkout line, as you do.

During the visit I noted with humour, our fellow shoppers and their selections.
The store sells an amazing assortment of things from hardware to gardening, outdoor furniture, paint, power tools, light fittings bathroom and laundry accessories, indeed, just about anything and everything one could wish for.
Buff chaps wandered around heaving bags of cement, long lengths of PVC pipe; lawn food and a collapsible washing line, happily displaying their biceps. Other fellows wandered around the tool section with joy; some wearing angst expressions on their faces; some keen to get stuck into a project; others less enthusiastic; some trying to look knowledgeable; others totally at sea! I might add that there was a fair representation of ladies this morning pushing trollies offering encouraging words, keeping an eye on the kids. I was also impressed by a number of guys with little ones in toe, showing them the Bunnings ropes, so to speak!

The fun starts when eager shoppers endeavour to load their purchases into their vehicles, what looks doable in the huge warehouse can often become a major challenge when faced with the confines of the vehicle in the car park, doors, pipes, lengths of timber and tall plants sometimes just won't fit and that presents major logistical problems. It happens to the best of us, I'm sure, a bit like putting more on one's plate than one can comfortable eat, a case of eyes being bigger than the tummy!

No doubt my fellow shoppers made it home this morning and have got stuck into the projects on their to do lists, or maybe they got discouraged or distracted and decided to crack a beer and watch the footy instead, good intentions can become derailed so easily.

In any event, I was amused by the visit and am grateful that humour can be found in all sorts of situations if our mind is in the right place.

Keep looking for opportunities to smile, and have a great weekend!
Simply Susan