Gridlock All I can do is ask myself every year “why do I wait?” Every year I tend to wait to do all my Christmas shopping until the night before. I do not know why I do it, but I do. Christmas Eve of 2001 was the worst I have ever been through. It is Christmas Eve 2001; I am walking out to my car to go Christmas shopping with my best friend. It feels like minus 10 …showed first 75 words of 778 total…

…showed last 75 words of 778 total…you would think I would have learned my lesson by now. I have never had that much trouble, though. I do not think that I will be one of those people out there next year, but I have said it for the last five years. I think that, after sitting in the car long enough to drive to St. Louis just to move a thousand feet, I will think twice before doing it next time.