all for milk

I had the adventure of a life time last night, and it was all for milk. Alex and I are a bit tight in the funds area until his next paycheck (which should arrive any day now). But, sadly we had run out of milk. That ends breakfast for me, I'm a failure in the kitchen, and plus, cereal is a staple of my morning routine. So, I dipped into an small emergency fund. In actuality, it's less like a emergency fund, and more like a scratch off that I had bought months ago, that was sitting in my wallet collecting dust. But, it was a winner!

So, I set off to collect the four dollars that I had won, in order to purchase milk. There's this little market around the corner, who has very nice gentleman working for it, and so it was my first stop. Sadly, they don't sell scratch offs, so was out of luck. They sent me down the street to another market, that they were convinced sold scratch offs, and there I went. Unfortunately, this was further into the tenderloin. Now, I live in the tenderloin, but it's the edge of the TL (Tenderloin). Aand everyday I walk to work along the edge of the TL, but I try at all costs to not go any further in the TL then the edge. But, this wasn't just any matter, this was for milk.

So, I went, it wasn't that much further, I told myself, I'll be fine. But, they also didn't sell scratch offs. They directed me to another little market store that did, a block up, and yes... Further into the TL. I know, I was pissed. However, I gathered my courage and went forth. I walked past prostitutes, and horny cat calling old drug addicts, I avoided the piss stains on the ground, and the sleeping bodies, and I walked on. When I got there, they didn't sell scratch offs either, but they told me the next market a block up did. I started to feel tricked. Like this was a game they played with normal people, so they could kidnap and torture them until they were like the other helpless people wandering the streets of the TL. Maybe that's where all these people come from.

But, needing milk, and already being so far in, I threw caution to the wind and on I walked. I went to two more useless places, however, I happily found a liquor store who sold scratch offs in the end. I was going to buy milk there, and then I thought of brining the milk all the way back through the TL, I decided to wait until I got to the nice place around the corner of my apartment.

They didn't have 2% milk though, they assured me if I was to just walk up a block I'd find a market that sold it. For a second I thought of going back, but then I just sighed and bought the full milk. One adventure in the TL was good enough for me.