- I always grab the milk at the very back of the rack since I think it is fresher
- I use the same logic for chips since I think those at the back are less likely to be crumbled
- I think there is some rule about the freshest bread, but I don't know what it is
- I hate how liquids are heavy (milk, cokes, juice)
- I check out the shopping cart wheels within the first few feet because I'm not going up and down aisles with a wobbly wheel
- I am amused by the mom who wants to beat her screaming child but exercises restraint because its a public place
- I always use the self check out line because I don't want to interact with another human being
- There are always "family sized" containers but no "single guy" containers
- How many ways can they trick up corn?
- When I see someone with a huge basket of groceries, I'm concerned about whether that person is stressed about how much it will cost (and I look at her face to see if I can get a hint)
- I wonder who decides what the thermostat will be set at
- Cereal and chips are ridiculously expensive and I always wonder if it's because all of the expense is shipping.
- I'm embarrassed to buy toilet paper
- When did the option of "paper or plastic" end? (Which contradicts the self check out line comment above)
- I walk by sugar cookies and wish they didn't have so much fat in them
- And I check the fat grams of every new item I see and inevitably put the item back because of the disappointing high number
- I always return my shopping cart to the proper place in the parking lot
- I always want to read the National Enquirer while I'm waiting to get checked out
- I have never asked the butcher to get a particular kind of meat
- When I pick up a vegetable, I really wonder what field it was grown in
- I get depressed during grocery shopping
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4.12.2006
Grocery Shopping Observations
- I always grab the milk at the very back of the rack since I think it is fresher
- I use the same logic for chips since I think those at the back are less likely to be crumbled
- I think there is some rule about the freshest bread, but I don't know what it is
- I hate how liquids are heavy (milk, cokes, juice)
- I check out the shopping cart wheels within the first few feet because I'm not going up and down aisles with a wobbly wheel
- I am amused by the mom who wants to beat her screaming child but exercises restraint because its a public place
- I always use the self check out line because I don't want to interact with another human being
- There are always "family sized" containers but no "single guy" containers
- How many ways can they trick up corn?
- When I see someone with a huge basket of groceries, I'm concerned about whether that person is stressed about how much it will cost (and I look at her face to see if I can get a hint)
- I wonder who decides what the thermostat will be set at
- Cereal and chips are ridiculously expensive and I always wonder if it's because all of the expense is shipping.
- I'm embarrassed to buy toilet paper
- When did the option of "paper or plastic" end? (Which contradicts the self check out line comment above)
- I walk by sugar cookies and wish they didn't have so much fat in them
- And I check the fat grams of every new item I see and inevitably put the item back because of the disappointing high number
- I always return my shopping cart to the proper place in the parking lot
- I always want to read the National Enquirer while I'm waiting to get checked out
- I have never asked the butcher to get a particular kind of meat
- When I pick up a vegetable, I really wonder what field it was grown in
- I get depressed during grocery shopping
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Buy the damn sugar cookies and live a little.
I don't like shopping for 1 either
And think of all the career Washington politicians who haven't done this in 30-40 years!!
I love self checkout...greatest innovation in grocery shopping
I miss paper bags myself.
The phrase now is, "Is plastic OK?" mumbled under some teenager's breath, while he goes ahead and puts everything in plastic hoping you didn't hear the question.
comment4u is right - and get a National Enquirer on the way out.
Tell us how you make it in Walmart.
:-)
You're one of the two people in this county who does return their shopping cart to the corral. I fight the urge to ram a shopping cart into the vehicle of the people who just leave them out in the middle of the parking lot. Especially when the do it in front of me. Of course if you say something, they get a look like you just raped their dog while pouring sugar in their gas tank. Those fat sows could use the exercise.
You're one of the two people in this county who does return their shopping cart to the corral. I fight the urge to ram a shopping cart into the vehicle of the people who just leave them out in the middle of the parking lot. Especially when the do it in front of me. Of course if you say something, they get a look like you just raped their dog while pouring sugar in their gas tank. Those fat sows could use the exercise.
I would like that self checkout better if that darn 'skip bagging' popup wouldn't happpen everytime you scan an item, even though you put it in a bag in the bagging area.
I think if you can phone in your grocery list this might be a good thing. Way to much stress for Barry! Poor Thing.
One way to make shopping more fun, is to do power slides with your cart around corners, especially when the floors are freshly waxed. And once outside heading towards your vehicle get running and then jump on the back of your cart and push it like a skate board. Just a suggestion.
What is up with corn? It's the same in as out.
I love to cart surf on the way to the car and I always put the cart back!
The milk in the back is colder because the lights are not hitting it!
Barry, this is one of the more entertaining posts you have done lately. I too put my cart back. Your comment about not wanting to interact with anyone was so funny! I hate going through the check out with those moron ladies who look at what you are buying and making comments about it - like, "boy that looks good" or "I haven't seen that - that's really neat - where did you find that - I don't know how long we have been carrying those - I think I'll read the ingredient label since I'm learning to read 4 and 5 letter words this week - my mom use to make something kind of like that, but she used....." well, you get the point.
OR the great carry out boy who tells you about what all he has done today and what all he plans to do when he gets off work never coming up for air.
I just hate shopping for groceries period!!!
Heaven forbid people try to be friendly 10:36. If they didn't talk to you, you'd call them rude. Nevertheless...funny post Barry. I relate to much of what you say, except, yeah, I sometimes go ahead and buy the sugar cookies. And I hate to admit that I laugh a little when I see a runaway cart ram someone's car...they don't do "too" much damage, and like I said...it's pretty darn funny.
hey I'm the mom with the kid who has to have everything in the store and then I say "no" then I want to beat him. But I'm not afraid to do it in public. I will swat him and raise my voice but actually a "beating?" no, don't do that. So please don't call CPS on me....AND I'm also the lady with the cart piled high wondering how much it's gonna cost and if I'm gonna go to jail for floating a bad check until payday. But with 2 growing boys at home...well that pretty much explains my thinking. AND if they are not with me then I do return the buggy but if they are then no I don't b/c of fear that someone will steal my car and leave my kids behind...hahaha not really.
What gripes me is folks who take stuff out of their shopping carts and shove them in places.
Ever found a carton of milk in the canned vegetables section?
Or a roll of toilet paper in the frozen food section?
Happens regularly where I shop!
I'm with you M&M, it's a constant battle...skip bagging, skip bagging...hell no, I bagged the son of a (*&^&!
By the looks of Barry lately, he needs to get some meat on him. I mean, how long can you stand being a 5'3", 120lb girly-man? Get some cookies, a little fat and put some muscles on that skinny rear of yours....lol
Hey 1:05...lay off! Barry is perfect just the way he is. I would love to be the one to turn his bed down at night and tuck his cute tush in and spank it now and then, too! He is my fantasy boy.
He doesn't wear overalls and spit tobacco and he pays attention to what he eats and how he looks and runs to stay in shape! Oh NO! I know it's hard for you to "get", but he is normal if you would venture outside Wise County and take a look around.
Ok, putting Barry and the word "normal" in a sentene together is just plain wrong...
Barry is perfectly "normal"! LOL!
You're my shopping soul-mate!! I live for self-check-out!
Has anyone els notice how much Barry says that he is depressed? Do you think this may be a cry for help? I'm guess that if the little things like grocery shopping & watching the news depress you that really must be something els going on with this depression of yours?
Has anyone els notice how much Barry says that he is depressed? Do you think this may be a cry for help? I'm guess that if the little things like grocery shopping & watching the news depress you that really must be something els going on with this depression of yours?
This was so funny! I really feel for you. Have some one else do your shopping!!LOL!
I always get mad at cereal prices too... what i REALLY want to know is if their going to charge so much, why not just make the product worth what we're paying...and possibly have a ZIP-LOC at the top of the damn thing? No more early morning cereal mis-haps, and no more stale cheerios. for real. ;)
I always hate shopping at the 24 hour Kmart by my house. It's the only thing open, and of course I don't want to drive far late at night. There are always people buying cheese puffs and hot dogs, whole milk and whatever else is totally not good for their 5 kids. I always get so depressed also thinking about those poor kids who should be sleeping in their beds and have to eat that shit at home. :(
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