Supermarket Bagging-Habits, part... uh... 3?
I stopped at Slaveways this morning apres jin shin, and bought a few things - 2 bags-worth. It was put thusly into the bags: 2 half gallons of organic milk, a 3 lb. bag of brown rice, and a few other things in Bag A. Bag B contained two quarts of plain yoghurt, a pound of fresh blueberries, and salad greens. I got to my car and was like ZOMG TEH HEAVINESS and I couldn't even lift Bag A (such a come-down as I was the strongest person imaginable before I got sick).
I've never liked milk before but for some reason I want organic milk right now. As a child I wouldn't drink milk and didn't eat butter, didn't like ice cream (we had ice cream delivered for a while because of a new freezer but I would just eat the empty cones). I still like empty (ordinary kind not those brown things) cones a great deal and buy them whenever I stumble across them (I don't really get to buy what I want, just whatever comes within my short reach, somewhat like a primitive sea creature glued to a rock who filters sea water to claim nutrients).
Who cares about food, anyway. Sad to be so weak, though, and as I get sicker my metabolic rate has slowed to a crawl and trends downward. I probably have as slow a metabolic rate as a hibernating bear, or close, anyway.
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- 1:09 PM
- 1:09 PM
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Ordinary indeed! Hmmmph!
Those wimpy wafer cones havce no substance! Give me a crunchy brown sugar cone any day. It's like a dog biscuit for humans.
Those wimpy wafer cones havce no substance! Give me a crunchy brown sugar cone any day. It's like a dog biscuit for humans.
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: 17 August, 2006 16:35
: 17 August, 2006 16:35
/me hands over all the brown cones to Salazar - now, just give me all your wafer cones and we're even.
the dam baggers ... they are idiots about the weight these days. I blame it on plastic bags, which can be filled without a lot of thought. Paper bags take much more care. One supermarket near me uses shorter paper bags than the general size, just to encourage LOWER WEIGHT. PLUS they offer carry out to the car (but then there is the carry to the house thing) When my son Steve helped me shop after his surgery, we had to ride herd on the baggers ... no more than 5 lbs per bag. Turns out a lot of the bags are much heavier. KIDS TODAY!
I have one checker thoroughly trained at one particular store, however, more interesting to me than the weight is the odd juxtapositions of things. Such as (from June 29th) 2.5 lbs cherries and a half-gallon of milk. Who ever heard of squashable cherries? No, those things are as resiliant as Superballs.
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