Anticipointed

Yesterday Jessica, Sara and I left the sand and sage brush for Los Angeles County. We had two goals. Or, Jessica had a goal and I was on a mission and Sara went along for the ride. Jessica wanted to go to the Quilt and Craft show at the LA County Fairgrounds and I wanted to take advantage of the fact that we were going to LA County to get my LA County Public Library card.

I have been pretty excited about getting my LA County Public library card ever since Married Ladies Book Club when Sabrina said that the LA County Public Library has lots of eBooks. I checked as soon as I got home and sure enough, they pretty much have every Jack Reacher novel available as an eBook and the LA County Public Library card is available to permanent or temporary residents of California. I have been telling everyone about this development, but pretty much I'm the only one who has shown the appropriate amount of enthusiasm for the topic. Last week I was going to go to Little Rock (CA, not Arkansas) to the LA County Library there, but I had too much work to do. So I jumped at the chance to take the field trip to the LA County Fairgrounds. I told Jessica, I will go only if these conditions are met: 1. We stop at Total Wine because I am near about out of wine and 2. We go to the LA County Library, so I can get my library card. She agreed. I've had my library card application in my purse since Thursday because Friday I had to go to a workshop with the principal in Downey and I was cautiously optimistic that our conversation would go like this:

Me: So...we can get a LA County Library card and get eBooks.
Him: Well, let's stop on in while we're down here!

All this would have made the Best Weekend Ever, if only I hadn't taken my wallet out of my damn purse to pre-fill out my library card application and then hadn't forgot to put it back in, so when Sara, Jessica and I stopped for lunch I realized that I was sans wallet and therefore sans driver's license and would not only not need a lunch sponsor, I would be unable to get my library card!