Another Daily Run Through

There once was a woman, a shopper like you,

Who went out to Target, yes daily, it's true!

She called up her mother,"Do you want to come too?

Surely everyone must need just one thing or two."

Just a typical Target run, you know, something to do

Haven't been there since yesterday, lets go see what's new!

They grabbed a red cart, and Diet Cokes too

And started the ritual, known to more than a few!

I've got to grab toothpaste, and laundry soap too

Did you say you need chapstick or was it shampoo?

Let's get what we have to and meet back in a few,

Then we can start what we REALLY came here to do.

That didn't take long, it was just 10:02

58 minutes til closing, love the new hours, don't you?

They made it through home goods, and the shoe section too,

Before they had to head back, for cart number two!

"Finish your story about you know who,

but first, grab those mint M&M's, and hand me a few!

Just don't rip the bar code, so they can still scan it through

They don't have samples like Costco, but hey this will do!"

They wandered through children's and checked out mens too

then rounded the corner, and oh what a view!

Cozy flannel pajamas in most every hue

red plaids, silver snowflakes, and polka dots in blue

I'll take this one and that one, and here's one for you

too many to choose from, oh what's a girl to do?

I'll just get them all, Hubby won't have a clue

Once I take all the tags off, he'll never know they're new!

Make your final selections, your shopping is through,

Said the girl with the red shirt, working isle number two.

Then to the cashier where payment was due,

She gave little thought to the money she blew!

That a quick trip for toothpaste could yield 12 bags, who knew!

But with retail therapy like this, a girl could never be blue!

And so marked the end of their Wednesday run through,

That makes 5 trips this week, but I'm not counting, are you?