Last week, I traveled to St. Louis. My bag took a trip to Indianapolis. I arrived in STL at 7:30 pm sans bag and quickly realized my jeans, sweater and traveling clogs weren’t going to cut it for my day of meetings beginning early the next morning. The airline representative said, “just keep your receipts for anything you need to buy.”

I thought, “Plaza Frontenac ,here I come!”

Then I got a bit more realistic. I knew I needed toiletries, a suit and shoes and had about an hour to get it all purchased. I headed for Target.

My dad gives me a hard time every occasion I’ve written about Target. He accuses me of being on the payroll. I can’t help it if they’ve solved many of my shopping needs and I want the world to know. Target rocks; I’m just a fan.

In the space of an hour I found a great chocolate linen suit, chocolate slingbacks, a striped dress shirt and a complete assortment of needed toiletries (makeup, hairbrush, toothbrush, etc.). One of my co-workers impressed me the next day by figuring out within $10 how much I’ve spent when I rattled off the shopping list ($190, if you’re interested).

The whole experience was not bad because I knew I’d be suitably dressed the next day (and indeed, my bag was delivered to my office late the next morning) and I was able to get all I needed in one stop; a blessing after a long day of working and traveling 800 miles.

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