A tale of two grocery trips

[sonjajade]

I was trying to put off grocery shopping until today because the store I wanted to go to was closed once I got a moment to go without Joey, but he needed some overnight pullups and I knew Kroger carries the kind I needed.  So I bought what I knew I couldn't get at the other store last night at Kroger and something magical happened.

I was in the frozen food section and an Elton John song was playing on the radio.

Everyone in the aisle was singing it under their breath- except for the lady in the dairy section.  She was BELTING IT OUT, then she came down my aisle was encouraging everyone to sing louder.  So we did.  And then someone who works there joined in.  And another person came and sang too.  It was the single most incredible random act of joy I've ever experienced.  It made me look forward to going to the store, though I seriously doubt something that cool will ever happen again.

Today however, I went to Aldi's and it was freakin packed because we're supposed to get some deep snow and everyone and their grandma was there.  I don't know if you've ever been to Aldi's, but it's a TINY store.  Maybe 4 aisles and they don't bag the groceries, you bag them yourself in your own bags.  Anyway, no one seemed to want to move out of my way for anything, and I always say excuse me and I'm sorry when I'm trying to get by someone.  The aisles were just jammed so bad.  Finally I get my things and Joey and I leave, and when I get out to the parking lot to the van this old guy starts honking at me.  I look over at him and give the international body language for "WHAT!!!?!"  He rolls down his window and shouts at me, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU??"  I'm parked in a handicapped spot, I have a tag for it, from when my foot got all messed up and I had to wear the boot and all.  Of course I don't have the boot on and he doesn't seem to care that it's 10 degrees wind chill, I have a toddler and a cart load of groceries in a store's lot with like zero parking.  I told him he could have my spot as soon as I got done with it, because I was, y'know, putting my bags into the van and then putting my child into his booster seat and then had to take the cart back because it's one of those you pay a quarter to use it.

This old man continues to honk at me and call me names!  I am rushing to get the cart back to the corral and get my $.25 and get the hell outta there.  When I start coming back to the van after returning the damn cart, he's got his hand out the window shaking a quarter at me demanding that I go and get him a cart.  And then when I told him no he said I should be respectful of my elders.  I told him "FUCK YOU!"  He'd done nothing but harass me since he pulled in the parking lot.  Then he tried to block me into my spot.  I backed gently into him and then dropped it in neutral and gunned it trying to scare him.  It worked- he moved immediately and when I got to where he could see me, I held up my handicap sticker thing to the glass of the window so he could see it.  He was still shouting at me when I pulled away.  It's things like THAT that make me DREAD going to the store.

Anyways- ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS!  missyquill's package came from Malaysia the other day!!!  I have pictures!!



Joey loved his shirts!

And I got more necklaces!

cooking spices!  I'm excited about the satay sauce and curry.  I have to get a whole chicken for the Golden Phoenix spices

If we were fish eaters in this house, we'd probably be more excited about this lol

Cards from her too!
Thank you to everyone who sent me a card over the holiday!!  I was thrilled to see so many come in!! It's like a tiny paper hug and it really lifted my spirits!

For those of you in the path of this storm- stay safe, stay warm, and bring those cats and dogs in where you can keep an eye on them!  to those of you who are not in any danger of being snowed in, Happy belated New Year!

Comments

[bay115.livejournal.com]

Oh wow over the parking lot incident. O.o

You already showed me pics of the food, but it's cool Sammy had sent you other stuff!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

really neat thing with Elton John and cool stuffy Sammy got

[anotherfmafan.livejournal.com]

Bleh, sorry to hear about people being unpleasant. That and the awesomeness of Elton John shows you a pretty good snippet of what humans are, I guess.

Those necklaces are quite pretty! Glad you and Joey enjoyed your package and all! :)

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

*glomp* thank you for my little goodie in my card! It came the same day Sammy's package came so it was a double whammy!

[nochick-fics.livejournal.com]

I just get weird looks if I sing in the store. Sheesh. ;-)

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

for what it's worth, the cheese lady looked a little off her rocker. But she made it fun and that was what counted!!