My wife said she wants us to make a "quick, last minute Christmas shopping wrap up trip" today. Won't take long, she says. I'm considering a large dose of whiskey with my coffee this morning.

I avoid all that by working. I need to stop on the way to work to get some heavy cream for my coffee at work but I decided it was not worth trying to get a spot to park, getting through the crowded store, and waiting in the long check out lines on a Sunday a few days before Xmas. And that's just an in and out trip not one with the wife.