Target Trips

Everyone knows I love chicago, but some things are just much more difficult living in the city then in Ohio.. for example, Target shopping trips. My love for Target hasn't changed and especially moving into a new place Target stops are essential. The closest Target is about 8 stops down the red line.. so after my furniture finally arrived I realized I needed somethings like a rug.. lamp.. hangers for pictures, etc.

Getting to Target isn't difficult, jump on the red line, walk a quarter of a mile up a hill and your there. The issue is the trip home.. with bags. On my first trip to the store since my move I went there with the idea I needed to only get the essentials. That turned into a rug and three large bags full of "essentials". The red line is underground so I knew that I would not be able to get down to the train easily, so for some god unknown reason I decided it wouldnt be that long of a walk to a train stop with an escalator (about 15 blocks down the street). I began walking (in a dress, of course) down Clark Street to State Street to get to a more convenient train stop. Well this was easier said then done. The wind was blowing so I was trying to hold my dress down, the rug was awkward so I kept having to adjust it in my arms and the bags were breaking as I walked. I was a sight for sore eyes and realized my essentials were not worth it but it isnt like I could do anything about it now. I couldnt stop for a cab either because I was walking against traffic so I would have had to cross the street and by then my items would have probably spilled all over an intersection.

Well to make a long story short.. I walked to a busy intersection, hailed a cab (against my will because I am trying to be frugal) and got back to my apartment. Wellllll, once I got into my apartment I laid the rug out and it was too small. It looked ridiculous. absurd actually. So I rolled it back up and took it back to the store. As if it wasnt bad enough with the smaller rug I repeated this torture of walking down Clark Street with a larger rug (thinking it would be easier because I didnt have the bags). This time I didnt mind getting in a cab right away because I knew how awful it was the first time back from Target.

The rug looks nice but next time I may wait till someone is in town with a car before I go to Target again...