Saturday, June 17, 2006

Grocery shopping

Deciding to go grocery shopping is a chore.... for most of us. What do I need? Should I buy groceries for the week? Or do I do like most, and go on a daily visit? Once there, cart or basket?Depending on ones needs and wants for the meal is a question that enters all of our minds when we shop for groceries. I decided one afternoon to visit our local Grocery Store. I decided on a cart, as you know if you get that you can buy on the impulse....nice and big, to just throw whatever your heart desires. I went on my way through the store putting the items I needed and them some, in my cart. I heard a small child crying and crying throughout the store and thought to my self,"that little one needs something to eat or a nap." The parent was yelling at her child, about what I didn't need to know. This went on for sometime. The yelling..the crying. I continue my shopping....seemed like slow motion, with the constant crying of this little person and her parent yelling. It also crossed my mind, that this parent needed child rearing classes. Boy, did I want to tell her that!! I stopped at the meat dept., you know how you leave your cart for just one second to view the meats and then on my way I went. More minutes into this shopping event and I heard this woman yelling," someone stole my shopping cart!" She kept yelling, "someone stole my shopping cart." I thought, oh brother, here she is worried about the cart and her little one is hungry or tired. I got in line and put my groceries on the belt...within seconds, after all my items were on, I realized these were not my groceries.....I was the one that stole HER cart...opps! Being next in line to pay, I needed to get out of line and put all the groceries back in to HER cart and went back to retrieve MY cart. There it was, with the beginnings of my groceries and I just quietly left HER cart there. I could still hear her yelling," someone stole my cart! " It's not like the store had just one of what she had, but her hands had put those in HER basket and she HER CART!! I was glad not to see her when I left HER basket where I stole HERS! I find things like this to be funny, whereas some may not, not her little one crying, but that I was the one with HER cart! It was an honest mistake on my part and gee it's not like I took her child!

4 Comments:

Blogger Terry said...

I love that story -- especially since you didn't realize you had her cart until unloading it! Nice move to sneak it back into the area without her noticing! Love you my friend!

5:33 AM  
Blogger Dave said...

that is so funny, it sounds like she was more worried about her cart than her kid...some people have strange priorities!

8:52 AM  
Blogger erin said...

As one who has been cart-jacked before, and, admittedly has done a cart-jacking or two, I also think it's pretty hilarious. Nothing funnier than looking down and realizing that you've been pushing around denture cleaner and funky colored yogurt in a tube!

1:33 PM  
Blogger Lori Grimes said...

Now that's a funny story!!!! I loved the way you just put the cart back and went on your way. I total would have did the same thing.

1:41 PM  

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