Another Costco Trip, And Grocery Store Ridiculousness-es
Quick-hitters:
- Another trip to the Post Office, another moron running a red light. This time, it wasn’t even close! The light was red for a good five seconds before the car (heading Southbound, just like the ***** who nearly killed me earlier in the week) sped right through the intersection, forcing the two cars going Westbound to slam their brakes and sound their horn.
That one could have been really ugly.
- Hey Amy, I recall you blogging about this horrible movie called “Sunshine.”
Check out this mini-review of the movie, done by ESPN’s Gregg Easterbrook (search for “Sci-Fi Complaint No. 2″). I think you’ll enjoy it ;-).
- Anyone wanna make a bet on the number of years that O.J. will serve in prison for his latest escapade? I’ll put the over/under at 3.5 years, and I’ll gladly take the under.
- Damn you, Hank! Why oh why did he have to talk about the game Peggle? I’m freaking addicted to the damn game now, so much so that I nearly purchased the game a night ago!
- So I took a trip to Costco today, but before I did, I set the over/under on how much I was going to spend at $85.00. I made a bet with an unnamed individual, and I confidently took the over.
(I hate Costco. I really hate Costco.)
Even with the beef jerky, the cheese danishes, and the multiple quantities of juice that I bought, I managed to stay under $85.00!
(Tangent: There is no way that one bag of this beef jerky contains eight servings. I could easily polish off half the bag, and only have to stop eating because my jaw would start aching.)
Anyway, hopefully that unnamed individual doesn’t try to get a steak dinner out of me for winning the bet.
- After the trip to Costco, we swung by our local supermarket to pick up a few things. After today’s trip (which only set me back another $30), I don’t know if I ever want to go back to that place. This wasn’t my first trip to this particular supermarket, by the way, but after what I dealt with today, I don’t know if I ever want to go back to that place.
First of all, I do not understand why people like to obstruct the aisles with their shopping carts either at the ends of the aisle, or in the middle of the aisle, next to areas where there are displays of stuff not on shelves. One of these days, I’m bringing a horn with me to a grocery store, so I can honk at people who block my way.
(Yeah, I have grocery store road rage.)
Related to the first point…grocery stores seriously need to widen their aisles. It is nearly impossible now to pass another shopper in an aisle, and it’s not just because of those off-the-shelf displays being all over the place. Between stupid kids constantly running around, to, um, wide shoppers blocking off the entire aisle with their cart or, um, their backsides, I now have to go through the store 2-3 times just to make sure I’ve covered every aisle.
(Tangent: I’m not exactly the most svelte of individuals, but I try my hardest to not obstruct people when I’m shopping. If I do, it’s either unintentional, or I do it for a couple of seconds at the most. There was one woman who was bent over and looking at the same freaking can of tuna for a good five minutes? How do I know this? I returned to that aisle a couple minutes later, and she was still there!)
By the way, I don’t want to hear the “if you would just make a list, and go into whatever aisles you need to go to, then you won’t have this problem!” argument. I always go through every aisle, in the off-chance that I find a very good deal that I can’t pass up.
As if the experience inside the supermarket wasn’t bad enough, what I saw outside was even worse. As I got to our car, I noticed two shopping carts stuck behind a van parked one aisle from us.
(clears throat)
WHO THE **** THINKS IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO LEAVE THEIR SHOPPING CART BEHIND SOMEONE’S PARKED CAR???
The amazing thing is, there was a shopping cart return area about three parking spots away from these two carts! As I finished loading my groceries, I noticed the owner of the van started loading her groceries. I heard her curse about the carts (understandably so), and I decided to go put away my cart and take the two obstructing her van at the same time. She was very grateful for the help, and I was glad to see that she also took her cart to the cart return area.
As we drove out of the parking lot, we saw a woman driving a Dodge Ram leaving her shopping cart in the next parking spot. Was it cruel for me to have wished for the cart to roll right back into her truck? Seriously, the parking spot is rather tiny, and there are several cart return areas scattered all throughout the lot. Is is that freaking hard to take your cart to the return before you leave?
I was going to talk about football, but now I’m pissed off again. Until next time…