May, 2017, from Dee Abrahamse to the 1961 Chat group:
Hi, all. I couldn’t resist sharing my latest shopping adventure with all of you, who might understand it! Today as I got out summer clothes, I realized that the khaki crops I put away last year still are missing a button at the waist. Last year I had a safety pin to keep them together, but that seems to have vanished over the winter, and I was all out of safety pins. (of course I could go get a button and sew it on, but that sounds like too much work, and the safety pin worked fine last summer). I added it to my shopping list for Target, and after I found everything else I needed, looked around and couldn’t find any area that looked as though it might have safety pins -no ‘notions’, like the old supermarkets near me used to have. I asked and they directed me to the home and office aisle, where there were push pins, but no safety pins. I didn’t even try at the store where I was shopping for food (a Trader Joe’s type store), but thought the next door Staples might have them.. No, they didn’t carry them, and we had a conversation about craft shops and similar places that might have safety pins. I tried Rite Aide, where they didn’t seem exactly sure what safety pins are, but the aisle they directed me to certainly didn’t have any. When I came home, I looked for safety pins online at Target, and discovered I could order them delivered to a nearby store – $3.99 for the package, and $5.99 for delivery! Finally, I called my local Target, and they looked up in a register and said yes, they do have them – with the vacuum cleaners! So tomorrow I’ll try again, and hope my pants will stay up long enough to get the pin. I’m sure if I were in Wolcott, safety pins would be in all the country stores, and probably at Price Chopper near us, but here in California, they seem to be an item of the past.
