Just Love Country Towns

Country towns are amazingly relaxing - I'd forgotten just how much difference it makes!  I was reminded this week, when I had half a dozen errands to run.  I drove into town, and found a spot to park right outside the shoe mender I needed to visit, and half a block from the computer shop where I hoped to arrange my new internet service.  In between I spotted a place that wasn't on my list, but it was the work of two minutes to buy a new battery for my elderly cordless phone, and cross another task off the to-do list.  Back into the car, drove for a minute or two, found another parking space conveniently outside the Shire office, and less than ten minutes later my two cats were registered.  Five minutes later I was parked outside the real estate agent, handing in some papers they'd needed me to sign and and advising that I'd arranged for the antenna people to assess my new abode. Two doors down was the place I really needed to visit about the internet, and in ten minutes I was out with that all in train.  

All in just over half an hour, no queues, no cranky drivers determined to push in for a two second advantage.  I love country towns!