Only in Utah

Ben and I were blessed with the opportunity to attend the Draper Temple dedication yesterday via satellite broadcast to our stake center along with other members of the church in Utah.  After attending the Provo temple for a session on Saturday, we realized we still needed to obtain white handkerchiefs for the Draper Temple dedication the next day. Knowing the church distribution center was closed, our next option was Wal-Mart. At 10pm on Saturday night, the place was over-crowded. People and carts everywhere!  I don't know if I've ever seen a Walmart so crowded. 

As we dashed around the store looking for anything that resembled a white handkerchief, we discovered groups of people following in our foot steps...first the kitchen linens aisle. ALL of the white dinner napkins were out of stock. The next best thing was an ivory napkin...but ivory would not do.  On this same aisle we discovered a few white wash cloths left, but we didn't think a washcloth would be appropriate. We wandered around the aisles, looking

for any white fabric...to no avail. Everything that resembled a white handkerchief was out of stock, surely bought out by the people who did not wait until last minute to buy their handkerchief. Finally, we came up with a genius idea! The FABRIC department! 

By this time, our handkerchief seeker friends had wandered off to other corners of the superstore. As we approached the fabric department, we beheld the counter where they cut your fabric for you covered in an array of various white fabrics with a line of people.  Ben and I could not help but chuckle to ourselves.  Our genius idea was not such a novelty after all. We waited in line and watched the workers feverishly cutting white squares.  When we got in line there were only a couple of people, by the time we had gotten our goods and were leaving, the line was wrapping around to the next aisle over....at about 10:30pm.  

We learned a few things from this experience....

1. Do not wait until last minute

2. Lots of people in Utah wait until the last minute

3. You will only find a long line of people in the fabric department of Walmart late on Saturday night in UTAH! 

Only in Utah....haha