My wife asked me to pick up something from a store in a strip mall close to home after work. So I drive over to the strip mall and cannot find this store. I call her up and she insists the store is in that mall. She was there a month earlier. I drive around again. Still can’t find it. I even drive to another strip mall just to make sure she was not mistaken – no success.

So I drive back to the first mall. It’s been a long day; I am tired and hungry and was getting a bit angry at this point. I decide to ask for directions (something my wife had asked me to do earlier). I park and enter the first store I come across. It did not occur to me that it was a Tanning place. I am black. As I joined the line, a deafening silence fell in the room. When it got to my turn, I noticed that the two young ladies behind the counter had this incredulous look on their faces.

When I asked, “Can you tell me where……is?”, I heard an “oooh!” go off in the whole room. Then it finally occured to me where I was!

Anyway, the store closed down a week earlier!

nana