I'm overwhelmed by the abundance in grocery stores here. There are so many options, it's almost sickening. It's even more sickening when your 2 year old is screaming, "MO NACKS! MO NACKS!" Which translates to "More snacks, please dearest mother, most honorable one." And you have to yell to be heard over the squeak-grinding of your cart wheels*, "Shhh. Please wait. You can have a snack in a minute." Mason was trying to escape from that plastic car thing attached to the cart. He soon figured out that he wasn't really steering this car after all, and after swiping a box of cherry tomatoes onto the floor as a distraction, he tried to make a getaway. Roman, meanwhile was being the pleasant angel he is, but having him strapped to me, meant I was slower and Mason sensed this weakness.The shoppers could see and hear us coming through the aisles. I was almost too distracted to see their uncomfortable smiles, as they dove into the wall of cereal boxes to clear our path. As if I can't maneuver this thing.
One brave soul, however, approached us as if to speak. He handed me a business card.
"No thanks," I said.
"It's for a day care."
(groan) "I'm good."
So what does it mean when perfect strangers are recommending day cares to you? I didn't know either so we proceeded to fill our cart with giant pumpkins and (s)nacks.
*not to be confused with cart wheels
5 comments:
Hahahaha! Excellent story. Those carts with the cars on front are a lifesaver for us. Kennedy will search all the carts to find one like that. And they are more difficult to turn than a boat. I'm always knocking things off the shelves while turning.
do you shop at sainsbury's? we loved that place when we were on our study abroad.
We sometimes do, but we're in LA right now, so this was at a Vons Grocery store. It seriously was overwhelming at first!
the funny thing is that i can totally hear your groan and "no thanks". :)
and us grocery stores overwhelm me too! it's like they are too cluttered with choice or something... i like the clarity and prettiness of waitrose.
Love this post, and clearly captures that even though I dreamed about Target and other megastores back in the US, once back for that one year I could not handle them and avoided them at every cost, literally.
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