The Necessary Evil
I’m not very up on current events so when I went to the grocery store today I thought I missed the news the world was coming to an end and we had been ordered to our bunkers with supplies to last for 6 years. Mad House. Then, I overheard someone talking about the “big storm”. Ok, fine, whatever, that’s how it goes when people hear “snow”.
Everyone was super stressed. Blindly throwing any food they could get their hands on in their overflowing carts. There were concerned whisperings the store was running low on bread and rumors of “no milk left” which caused a mild stampede but thankfully no injuries. I too succumbed to the Group Think. And thus want to apologize to all the parents with one child I gave the stink-eye and a heavy sigh of disdain to as you pushed passed me with your one kid happily driving the “race car” cart. (full disclosure – I also called you a jerk under my breath.)
See the store only has three of these carts and when I am forced to go shopping with a 1 year old, 3 year old and 4 year old this particular cart is the only way to keep three rascals contained and still have a place to put food. I got a little irrational and blamed you for the fact I had to shop and round-up cats at the same time. “I’m sorry”.
And you chicken-little’s who gave me dirty looks while I tried to shop with 3 little kids dragging me down, blame the cart hogs with one kid. Believe me, I don’t want to be here anymore than you want to hear me say to my kids for the millionth time “Guys move over you are blocking the way”.
The financial moral of this story: I was all flustered by not having “my” cart (yes I consider it mine) and went way over budget on the food expenses this week. If you want to save money while grocery shopping DO NOT bring your children with you to shop before snowstorms.
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February 7, 2010 at 7:40 pm
I used Turbo Tax online last year for my daughters, but couldn’t file online since we hadn’t done so before, or something like that. This year I noticed that we had to pay for the state taxes to be filed and because my girls get so little back, there was NO way I was going to file online. So, we did the federal but I will do the quick paperwork for them.
Following now from FFF at MBC.
Blessings,
Mimi @ Woven by Words
March 4, 2010 at 8:54 am
Hah! I love this story. We used to do most of our grocery shopping at target and they have these carts that you can buckle in our two toddlers. Love it! I hate it when I see a mommy with one kid take the big ol cart. Especially when that kid is a quiet little angel who does not squirm one bit. My daughter is an extreme squirmer. If I can strap her in the big cart, we have peace. If not- grrr.
We now do most of our shopping at Trader Joes now (we found the prices to be consistently lower than target on our faves- and we aren’t couponers so it works). They have these mini carts that my four year old can use- I love it! she shops like us and puts stuff in she gets. And occasionally runs into another shopper. hah.