Doughnuts

So last night JP and Gwyn came over at about 9:30 at night so we could get a doughnut at the crispy creme shop in issaquah. We pile into cars (because they're going to drive back home after) and make our way through the night out to the land of doughnuts. What do we find? A closed shop. They used to be open till midnight, now they're closed by 10 pm. Fuh.

So, we decide to go to the grocery store down the street. Also closed. Just a few days ago probably too. Well damn, now what? Ok, lets drop doughnuts and go get ice cream. We need some sort of unnecessary fattening product. Baskin robins! Uh. Also closed. Then, Amanda decides she's hungry and wants a taco from taco bell. Also closed! Our impulse fast food jaunt is quickly becoming far more difficult than we were hoping for.

Finally, we give up and go to another grocery store that is still open, and I buy a doughnut and some milk for Amanda and I to share. Before we leave that store, the folks there too decide to turn the lights off. Whats with that? We chill out in the parking lot the 5 of us in the car, (I'm hanging out with the dogs in the back seat) eating our sweet greasy treats.

While relaxing in the cargo area of our car, my mind fleetingly touches on the subject of suburban decline. Maybe this is what it will eventually be like - things become too expensive or impractical so people leave for more populated areas, the exodus revealing vast abandoned spaces like shopping stores and dark neon signs. The remaining inhabitants scurry around watching the fuel level in their vehicle seeking out the remaining beacons of American capitalism glowing in the twilight of civilization.

I mean, whats more American than unnecessarily driving around late at night to eat doughnuts?