It's what we like
Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2010 by Travis Cody inMy Lady and I like to go to the grocery store.
Wait...let me rephrase.
My Lady and I enjoy doing the grocery shopping together.
Yeah...that's more what I meant.
We don't like the grocery store at all. So many people are rude. So many people don't control their kids. Grocery store parking lots are dangerous. The clerks rarely distribute the heavy items well so the bags often are way too heavy. For reasons passing understanding, so many people can't walk a few steps to park the shopping cart in the cart corral.
But that said, we enjoy the experience of getting through that mess together.
We've got a little pad of note paper on the kitchen counter. When we're out of something, we write it down. It saves a lot of time and keeps us organized. So often the trip to the grocery isn't planned. One of us will make the "meet me at Freddie's" call on the way home from work, and the other just has to tear off the latest list and head on down.
We like our grocery bags too. No more plastic for us. We have 16 bags total, 8 from Safeway and 8 from Fred Meyer. We shop Safeway when all we have on the list are food items. And we'll hit Freddie's when we need sundries.
We enjoy putting things away when we get home too. It's very homey and domestic, and again it's something we do together. We have a small kitchen, so putting groceries away affords us many opportunities to bump into each other.
What?
Tell me you don't like to "accidentally" bump into your honey like that.
Right...of course you do. And so do we!
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Interesting, Trav. And maybe if more men thought of the "bumping into" part and the potential that holds, maybe a lot more of them would then be willing to assist in the grocery shopping detail!