Shopping… How Taxing.

For the first time in my life, yesterday, I took advantage of the “no tax” weekend and went to Opry Mills Mall – truly one of the most disturbingly over-the-top places in the universe.  The place was packed full of people trying to save a buck.  It was so unpleasant that it left me wondering if tax free weekend is really worth all the hulla-baloo.  I mean, really.  All the frightening crowds made it crystal clear to me why I had been wise to avoid malls in previous years during this weekend of wonder and made me question why I didn’t have the divine perspicacity to realize it this year.  Needless to say, I won’t be doing it again any time soon – or ever again.  Saving six or seven dollars wasn’t enough to make me ever, ever go back for more of that kind of torture.