Little Big Town Revisited

There truly is something to be said for Little Towns.  I have been living in big cities for so long that I had really forgotten what it was like to actually have someone take the time to just stop and chat for a few minutes without looking at their watch or having to hurry you through the check out line with barely a nod in your direction.  Living like that truly seems to take a toll on people.  And they have NO IDEA what they are missing.  It's just business as usual... another day another dollar and all that.


I had to go to town yesterday so I could send a fax.  I don't have a printer here so it entailed having to go to the library.  No big deal really.  So I talked to the librarian about using the computer.  I suppose she didn't quite catch what I was needing to do.  Anyway, she asked me for my I.D. and took the information. I told her I had just recently moved here.  I still have my Texas license and so she asked me if I had something with my mailing address here on it.  It just so happened that I had that exact information in my hand and so I gave it to her.  I was thinking ... wow... all this just to use the computer?  But I didn't say anything.  She gave my my temporary password for the computer and I went ahead and took care of my business.  When I went back to the counter to pay for the services she handed me my very own Library Card!  Wooo Hoooo!!  I hadn't even thought about getting one and so I was very pleasantly surprised.  Too bad I hadn't stopped there before I stopped at the thrift store and spent my $2.00 on books!

I decided that since I was already going to have to be town I might as well take a look around.You know..see what this Little Big Town has to offer.   Imagine my delight at finding three thrift shops without even having to actually look for them.  And there are more of them too!!  I hit a honey hole!  I love thrift stores being the cheap skate  err...being frugal and all.  To bad we are on such a tight budget right now.  But I did spend $2.00 on a few books which what I was looking for after all. 

While in town I stopped at the WallyWorld to pick up some eggs and butter.  While I was checking out I asked the cashier if they carried cigarette tubes.  Mars and I both smoke.  Bad habit I know, but one we have yet to put down. Being cheap err... frugal we have been rolling our own for a few years now.  Until the government stepped in and banned the mailing of tobacco in the mail we have always ordered tobacco and the cigarette tubes online.  The last time I ordered tobacco I ordered all I could afford to knowing that it was going to be the last time I would be able to order it online.  Well I misjudged how many boxes of tubes we needed for the order and so we ran out way before the tobacco ran out.  Leave it to me right?  lol  Anyway.... The cashier said they didn't carry them anymore.  I asked her if there was a tobacco shop in town.  Not only is there one.... its an Indian Smoke Shop.  No taxes!  Good news is they carry both the tubes and the tobacco.  Another problem solved!

Everyone I talked to yesterday was just so nice.  Everyone took the time to just act one on one with me.  Such a wonderful thing that is.  I know some of you probably think I'm nuts.  But for me it is like a breath of fresh air to actually have a conversation with folks who say things like  "Sure Hun,  I can help".  I think we might have escaped the big city just in time!  I was becoming as jaded as they are and it's not something I want to be.