Creativity of Walmart

My painted thumb-tacks

I have a creative side, believe it or not. It doesn't show very often, but when it does, I am quite proud of what the end result is.

Since I was about 12 or 13-years-old, my very good friend and I have always taken pictures in the picture booths you can find in malls. I own a plethora of these pictures and I wanted to display them. I usually keep these pictures in a stack on my bookcase. 

Today, I went to Walmart when inspiration struck. Why not purchase a cork board and thumb-tacks and display my pictures? But the thumb-tacks there were boring: white or silver. But, aha! Inspiration strikes again! I already own bottles of paint that I could use to make them fun and colorful.

As I was heading towards the check-out lines, I saw buttons that had images and sayings on them that I fell in love with and cost less than a dollar! 

My only wish is that my cork board was larger because I still have a large stack of pictures on my bookcase.

But now, I can display my favorite pictures with friends and family and feel creative.

The finished product!

My car

I drive a car made in 2002. It's gold and pretty and I like it.

It's also a stick shift and I drive this car a lot.

And the other day, I was put in an automatic car.

After driving a stick shift for months, you tend to forget how to drive an automatic car, weird as it sounds. Automatic cars are supposed to be easier, right? You don't have to worry about the clutch, shifting, or killing or car at a stop sign. An automatic car just does things...well, automatically. 

But the other day, I found myself driving an automatic car instead of my trusted car. My left foot inched towards the non-existing clutch and found the break instead. Luckily, I was only in a parking lot so I wasn't thrown forward too badly.

After that, however, I kept saying out loud (even though no one else was in the car with me), "There is no clutch. There is no clutch. That is a break, there is no clutch." 

You drive a stick shift and nothing else for months and you'll understand what I'm talking about.