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