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