Christmas Shopping
“Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.”
Luke 2:14
When I was a kid, the first mall in our area was the Topanga Plaza. My mom and my grandmother used to do most of their Christmas shopping there. One Christmas season, on a particularly crowded Saturday, they were at the mall finishing up their shopping.
When they came out, they had forgotten where they parked their car and wandered the parking lot looking for it. They had arrived at the mall hours earlier, in my grandmother’s green Cadillac, but now it was nowhere to be seen. And so they searched, their arms full of bags.
At last, they found their car but couldn’t get it open. It was a cold day, and they were getting uncomfortable standing there in the wind. They told a nice young man that they were locked out, and he offered to help. The gentleman got a wire coat hanger and used it to open the door.
“Presto!” They were in. Putting the packages in the back seat and shutting the doors against the cold, they put the key in the ignition, but it wouldn’t start. That’s when they began to realize — this wasn’t their car!
Well, you can bet they got out of that car a lot faster than they had gotten in. And off they went, in search of their car…again.
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