At War at the Grocery Store
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The sheer amount of food I buy at the grocery store each week still amazes me!! You’re probably thinking, wouldn’t she, by now, be accustomed to the fact that she has to wrestle two grocery carts through the store each week (or every other, at least)?
The answer to that question … NO, I'm not …
I’m still known to announce my disbelief at the piled-high carts as I unload the items onto the weary conveyor belt (that I swear I've heard pleading for mercy … more than once … as I've come toward it).
I’m not sure if other customers hear my inner dialogue become outer dialogue, but if they do, I'm sure they know who I'm feeding, and so they tend to, or try to, empathize …
Either that or they just think that by now I’ve lost all sanity and pity me for needing to talk to myself. Regardless, by the time I’ve bagged 20 to 25 bags of groceries (and, yes, I do bag ALL of my own groceries!), paid for them, and done the math equation necessary to properly fit them into my SUV meant for a regular-sized family's food supply, I’m exhausted.
And I do what every mom/wife/grocery shopper does during the drive home … I dread the unload-and-put-away process upon arrival at home. When I arrive home, however, I get to greet what most mom/wife/grocery shoppers/people on the planet DON'T: eight precious eager faces with 16 willing and helping hands to carry groceries into the house and help put each item into its correct place. They take turns smashing grocery bags (the coveted job) and “play store” as they line up all of the cereal boxes onto the shelves.
Yes, I have my own little army unit that happily mobilizes on grocery shopping day ... And this saves my day every time, thanks to my heroes!
It's a beautiful day! :0)
~Kate
