a clipping from a sister's blog

my youngest sister writes cogently about a recent family outing. i have only to add that 1) the trip took upwards of an hour and 2) when it was all said and done, my mother said, "well, now i have fulfilled one dream..." the sisters and i, we were confused.

samedi, janvier 01, 2005 ::
my momma thinks i'm going to be depressed from sitting around the house all day. (recent surgery on her feet) she's probably right, but she had a very strange approach to curing this problem.
mom: let's go to central market in the woodlands!
me: there's no central market in the woodlands
mom: yes there is. you said you passed it once.
me: it's a special HEB in the woodlands, but it's not a central market.
mom: let's go anyway!
we load into the car.
melodie (the other sister, driving) : how do we get there?
mom: alexa knows.
me: i do?
mom: yeah, you said you know how to get there.
me: oh, well it might be on woodlands parkway.
mom: okay, let's go there.
melodie drives down the long and winding path. which is very dark.
melodie: okay this is woodlands parkway...okay, we're passing woodlands parkway.
me: oh, um, turn right?
melodie: hey look, randalls! is this HEB?
me: no. you know, i don't actually know how to get there.
mom: we stop at this gas station and ask!
she runs out to ask.
mom: okay, i know how to get there! we turn left, and then right.
melodie: left, and then right.
she turns left.
mom: no, right!
melodie: what?
mom: i don't know.
we turn left. it was the wrong way.
mom: call cody! (her friend who lives in the woodlands)
me: hey cody, where's central market in the woodlands?
cody: central market? what's a central market?
me: um, how about an HEB? maybe a big one?
cody: yeah, there's one on lake woodlands, near the mall, close to the highway.
me: k thanks!
mom: gosling is that way!
me: no it's that way.
mom: oh, home is that way!
melodie: no i think it's the other way.
joy: where are we?
we find gosling.
me: lake woodlands! turn here!
we get to the HEB. it is in fact, not a central market. it's "woodlands market," with a "central market cafe to go." we park the car.
me: yaaaay...can we go now?
we buy six avocados, 4 limes, and smoked salmon. you can't get this at any other HEB.