An Incredible Journey: Woman Travels to Parents’ House in Anoka Just to Use Printer
Original photo by Antoni Shkraba
Last Sunday, thirty-three-year-old Kylie Hagstrom had a dilemma: she needed to print a return label, but she didn’t own a printer.
So she took a deep breath, loaded her document on a flash drive, and drove 45 minutes to her parents’ house in Anoka to use theirs—a clunky, ancient Canon on its own little table with a lace tablecloth thing made by Kylie’s mom.
Printing at Kylie’s parents’ house is free, so Kylie bravely weathered obstacles such as her dad telling her repeatedly not to use up all their “good paper,” and her mom hovering over her shoulder the whole time making judgmental comments about what she was printing.
“Yes, it’s annoying, but it’s so much better than paying dozens of cents to print at UPS, or, God forbid, buying a printer. Who does that anymore? What am I, sixty?”
At press time, Kylie was seen driving back to her parents’ house, where she had forgotten her flash drive.