For example, instead of making an important phone call, you might run to the grocery store, take out the trash, or spend hours playing games with friends.
The moment that pain entered into the woman walking down the street, she looked in a store window and saw a co-worker who had said something to her yesterday.
They shopped, walked, rode, and called all day, went to theaters and operas or frolicked at home in the evening, for Annie had many friends and knew how to entertain them.