Me Thinks

 

You can get to this pretty mall in less than ten minutes from our house.  I really like the outdoor terrace section of the mall. There is a large array of stores and restaurants in the mall. Two things happened this week at the mall that made me feel like I was losing my mind. One day Matthew and I parked in the underground parking garage. We took a different elevator to the parking garage than we had when we came up from the garage.  I did not think this would be a problem because we remembered we were parked in the J8 section, and we could just find the letters/numbers to find our section and spot. We were carrying heavy grocery bags because we did some grocery shopping while at the mall, and we had purchased a couple of reams of paper from the paper store. When we exited the elevator into the parking garage we noticed we were in the D section and it felt like it was 110 degrees. We walked from D to E, then F and G and then a parking garage exit appeared. But wait, where was section J? We knew we were on the correct parking garage floor, and that we had parked in J8. We went back to the elevator lugging our heavy sacks and asked a security attendant where section J was. He said simply, "J is by A." Oh, well! We didn't know! How would we know that J would be by A!?

Another day, a senior missionary and I went to the mall to purchase supplies for missionary apartments, and we ended up with a large cart of items. We entered an elevator and told the elevator attendant that we needed parking garage level B1. I noticed as the elevator stopped on each floor that the red-numbered signage in the elevator did not match the signage on the wall of the floor just outside of the elevator. Sure enough, when the elevator stopped, the red numbers in the elevator read B2, and we reminded the attendant that we needed floor B1, and she said, "B1 is B2." 

I am so confused and I feel like I am really dumb. I am learning to smile, nod, and just go with it.