OK, *that* was a dumb idea

Drove out this morning with a long list of errands in hand -- post office, Animal House, drug store, grocery.

Three-quarters of the way through the grocery shopping I started to shake, broke out in a cold sweat, and thought I was going down face-first in the soup aisle (how embarrassing; why couldn't this have happened in the gourmet foods aisle?). White-knuckled it through the rest of the list and checkout, drove home, verrrrrry carefully, staggered into the house and collapsed on the sofa. Still shaky and starting again with the damn' headache, an hour after getting home.

I SO do not need this...

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