Driving Into the Unknown
It’s been a number of years since Roland had purchased a suit. An embarrassing number of years. We used to go to the Big and Tall or the Men’s Wearhouse to get a proper fitting. Douglas County doesn’t have the same variety of clothing stores (or any store for that matter) as is offered in the larger cities. Roland had seen an ad for Shaquil O’Neal wear at JC Penny. We had gone to the JC Penny in Roseburg. Though there was a small selection of suits he could try on, the formation around the shoulders gave one that he had been propped into his suit as a scarecrow hanging from a pole. We needed something else. The clerk had told Roland that Eugene would have a much larger selection. Thus on Saturday we took the time to make the drive to Eugene. We drove through fog practically the entire ...