Me and My Noodle!!

OK, we all know that getting old SUCKS! OK, well if you are over 50ish you know this. I have decided that yes it stinks but sometimes we have to just update our environment.

I had found that with my hip I can’t seem to get in and out of the truck very well. SOOOOO I came up with the idea of a step stool. Great thinking, even if I say so myself. And of course I do.

But when your brother takes the truck in to be serviced and he LEAVES the step stool in the truck, you have to get inventive.

I tried pulling on the steering wheel. I was afraid if I pulled to hard I would break the damn thing. So after getting to Yuma I thought I should be able to find a step stool at the hardware store. I did. But the price of almost 80 dollars was a little out of my budget. Once again I heaved myself into the truck, this time the steering wheel did give a little noise. I am now really scared. I don’t own the truck and don’t relish having to tell the guy that does own it that I broke his truck!

Then what to my wondering eyes should appear? A sign… no I mean a real sign. Dollar General. NOW that is in my budget! Sliding out once again, I ran into the store. Well, it was more of a limp and a gimp. But I made it in the store. I grabbed a cart, it usually helps me walk. I was ambling up and down the isles and found a step stool. It was still 25 dollars.

Thinking there had to be something in there I could use until my stool returned. I kept going. Amazingly enough the cart seemed to fill up on it’s very own. I found a little single step. OK, making progress. Now I need to find a way to pull the step in after me. It would defeat the purpose if I had to get out to retrieve the damn step. I tried a broom handle, nope the hole was too narrow. I tried a mop handle, still too wide. Reminds me of a nursery rhyme. Anyway I rather gave up on something that would stand up and started looking for a rope, or string or even just some yarn!!

Then the angels SANG. Just as I passed the “Summer Swimming” display. A POOL NOODLE! Yes, my hunt was over. It was squishy enough to fit in the slot. It then blossomed back out to hold the step so I could pull it up to the truck. Steven Hawkings has nothing on me!

Cost of the step – $2.00

Cost of my noodle – $1.00

Posting it on my blog…. PRICELESS!

OK, remember when I said the cart just kept filling ITSELF up? The total of my shopping trip at the Dollar General cost just under $70.00. Not much cheaper than the hardware store step stool. Yes, I know I should have just gotten the $25.00 step stool and saved my self some money.

But where would the Phlyarology ( https://alinemoe.blog/2018/02/25/phlyarology ) be in that?