Water

  This Monday night my roommate and I went to Walmart for a couple of things we needed, like water and school supplies. My car was parked at a perfect parking spot in location to my dorm. I knew the second I moved it my spot would be lost but I could no longer drink from the water fountains. Inside Walmart I made the decision to get a 35 pack of fully sized water bottles. After checking out we got into my car and headed back to campus. It was around 9:30 and at this time of night we were both sleep deprived and barley awake from the long day, I probably shouldn’t have been driving but we got there and back safely.

  On our way back to the school there was, of course, no parking in the parking lot closest to our dorm. So we headed to the next closest one. That lot was also full. In a second of panic I looked at C and said “I have no clue where any other parking lots are” so I drove around a little until she pulled up a map.   When we eventually found a spot, after getting lost once, it had been thirty minutes later and we were on the opposite side of campus. This wouldn’t have been a big deal if we hadn’t bought a 35 pack of water. I was going to leave it in the trunk and only take a few bottles to the room when my roommate offered to carry it back to the dorm. We took the bags we had bought and our backpacks along with the case of water out of the trunk. As we headed out of the parking lot we looked how far we had to walk and let out a big sigh. We had to walk down a huge hill, climb three sets of stairs and stop to get some food from the cavern.  The whole time stopping every couple of minutes to readjust the water bottles that were falling out of the case or the bags that were starting to make red marks on my arms. The whole time the few people that passed us stared at us like we had two heads. My roommate carrying a case of water and me with Walmart bags on my arm, I would say pretty normal, although we both were sighing and complaining basically the whole way to our dorm.

   When we finally reached our dorm, on the third floor, we were exhausted and threw the bags and water on the floor as fast as we could. There were a few girls in the common room who looked shocked at us coming down the hallway, I started laughing at the situation because I was imagining myself and C running through campus with a huge case of water and Walmart bags, it was a pretty funny sight. When we got into the room I soon realized that I could have just pulled my car up to the dorm building and dropped off the water, it would have made the situation easier but the story and the adventure were fun.  I guess the lesson is to not go to Walmart when you are tired and also to not buy the biggest case of water.

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