Part of our time out-of-town last week was spent shopping. While I do my best to shop locally, I HAVE to go out-of-town to get certain things. For example, our fabric stores--of which we have one (2?) and Wal Mart (what a joke)--lack anything that I would want or need for most sewing projects. So, I need to shop whenever we do our road trips. K, also, needs to shop away from home, at times, and this is where this post comes from.
K is required to wear steel-toed boots at work. While they aren't hard to find, K has a hard time finding anything comfortable, so he continues to get the one brand that he KNOWS will fit fine. It has been easiest for him to get his boots whenever we go to Wisconsin, partly because he works for a Wisconsin company and gets a discount at the store he buys from. This past weekend found us at the strip mall where the shoe store is located. Because I had no particular reason to go into the store, K went by himself and I stayed in the Envoy and people-watched. As I was looking around, I noticed the signage for some of the stores:
