What a Day (My April 19th)!

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What a day I’ve had! I always knew you shouldn’t shop at Wal-Mart, and usually I don’t, but I needed a tent to put my table under so I could exhibit today in case it rained. The only place that had one that I could afford was Wal-Mart. I borrowed money from Sarah, one of my PCA’s, to buy the tent even, which I usually don’t do. I don’t think it’s appropriate to ask employees of mine to borrow money unless I know them really well, which in Sarah’s case, I do. She’s a quaker and hates Wal-Mart, too, so she said I should get a sunburn and be all self-righteous about it! Telling everyone I met that my sunburn was a result of sticking to my progressive values and not shopping at Wal-Mart. She said I would get more money that way. In the end, she lent me the money because it’s not good for me to be out in direct sunlight all day, and despite my best efforts: I looked at every bargain tent in the mall, I did finally end up at Wal-Mart. This morning I discovered why we don’t actually shop at Wal-Mart, and the actual reason doesn’t have anything to do with progressive politics, at least not entirely. Their products suck! And yes I mean that in the most vulgar sense you can think of! Zyn and I finally got the tent erected around 11, with the help of three men which they didn’t tell you about in the directions! An hour later, it fell down, and the top ripped apart! We got it resurrected, and it fell down again an hour later. The third time it fell down, we decided to just risk sun exposure because we couldn’t figure out how to get it to stay up. At this point I’d owned the tent for 19 hours. I’m sorry, but I expect something I buy to work longer than 19 hours. Actually technically it was only supposed to be erect for 6 hours. If Wal-Mart gives me any problems returning this tent and getting my money back, I’m going to tell them that I’m going to call News 40 Consumer Reports. Most people here in the Valley don’t like Wal-Mart anyway, and they like me (I have nice activist reputation here). As much as today sucked – and it did – I relish the idea of giving Wal-Mart a little trouble! On Monday I plan to go and bring Zyn with me so he can vouch for me that I only owned it for 19 hours, and it died. On top of tent problems, I didn’t sell very much at Extravaganja, our local legalization fair. I only sold one book and a few bookmarks. One good thing that happened was that I got a speaking engagement. I’m going to talk to a classroom full of special needs kids, and they may even pay me. I ran into my good friend Craig who I hadn’t seen in so long I thought he’d died. There was lots of good music and lots of naked people - both male and female – all with potleaf bodypaint over their nipples. I don’t care how much I believe in something, I am not going to walk around bare-chested in the public streets. Whatever floats your boat, however. When I got home I raced the mailbox to see if my check was there, which it was. And then I raced to Stop-N-Shop to cash it. I missed the cashing place by one minute, I think. Now I have to get up early tomorrow so I can finally pay ADAPT. That stupid Tim Poindexter, lied to me. According to the check, it wasn’t even printed till the 15th. He told me it went in the mail two Wednesdays ago. Gee, we’re going to have a fun conversation in DC! They were only supposed to pay me $580, but instead overpaid me by $40. I am very honest and so I am going to tell him this, but not before I cash the check because I need to pay ADAPT. If I owe them $40, so be it. I’ll mail it to them in June! Now at least, I’m home and planning to chill out in front of the TV. My internet was currently broken for baout an hor and I’m pissed. What else can go wrong today (giggle giggle!)? How was your April 19th?