Smile - you're on....
I should have been on Candid Camera.
Today I went to Kroger. By myself. Yipee!! I have my list and I am strolling through the aisles having a great time grocery shopping. And I really mean that. I enjoy grocery shopping. Weird but true.
About half way through the store I stop at the meat case. I'm looking for lil smokey sausages. (To make my standard appetizer for our Sunday School party this Saturday night. Very easy - no dinner diary needed - wrap a lil smokey in bacon, cover with brown sugar and bake until gooey and greasy) I have to hunt a bit because I want the beef smokies not the pork version. Once I find them, I turn around to put them in my cart.
Wait. Where's my cart?
It's not beside me. It's not behind me. It's nowhere. I thought - maybe the Kroger people thought it was abandoned and put it up? But it had only been a few seconds. Maybe 2 minutes at best. There was a meat stocker nearby and I ask him - Have you seen a cart? Nope. He has not seen a cart.
Now I start looking for the hidden cameras. No hidden camera. So I start looking for MO. Come out, come out, wherever you are! Bring back my cart - joke's over! MO is not there. Nor anyone else I know.
Next step. I start thinking of all that was in my cart. I guess I need to start over? As much as I love grocery shopping, this idea pains me. I was on a schedule to get back to the house and feed Claire. So starting again is no good. And I know for a fact that I took the last set of Mott's Berry No sugar added applesauce so that particular item can't be replaced.
Now I start to think logically. My cart was JUST RIGHT THERE (and thank goodness I always keep my purse on my shoulder and not in the front basket). It can't have gone far. So I start at the nearest aisle and begin my search. Up and down - up and down. Walking by every person and quickly peering into their cart for my contents.
And there it was. Way down in the freezer section. Some lady had added about 10 items of her own, but it was definitely my cart.
So I had the uncomfortable conversation of "Excuse me - I think you have my cart". Thankfully she looked down and agreed that all of those items were not her own. She found an empty cart - we divvied up what was hers and what was mine and both went on our merry ways.
4 comments:
WOW! Now that's random. VERY random. I will say you are the ONLY person I have EVER heard of that keeps your purse on your shoulder. I thought for sure that's where your story was going. THANKFULLY it wasn't.
Glad you found your Motts applesauce :-)
Did the lady give you any grief at all? Probably a tad embarassed to say the least.
Very weird and quite funny.
I wish I had been their that would have been funny...MO
I will definitely rethink the purse on the shoulder instead of the cart thing. I guess if you had a couple of kids with you, they are good to guard the cart while you search for lil smokeys :)
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