On the way home from the Doctor’s office, Sally and Jordan stopped at Fred Meyer to look for a larger size of pull-ups. It was still mid-Friday morning and so the young girl knew most of her peers were at school. Yet she nevertheless felt apprehensive that someone would witness them shopping for the babyish items.
The store was located down by the canal connecting Lake Union to the Puget Sound. It was a pretty area of the city – almost industrial on first glance with a great deal of small workshops and boat yards and auto repair garages – yet it also had a cute commercial district with sidewalks and lampposts and newly planted shrubbery to accompany condos and apartment buildings under construction.
