It's been 3 hours, you just noticed it was missing?!
My neighbor needed to go grocery shopping, and she's currently not allowed to drive due to her health, so she asked me to come with her in the cab.
She hasn't ever ridden in a cab.
I know, I was like what?
Who has never ridden in a cab?!
So yeah, me being the good person I am, I called the cab for her, and agreed to go with her.
She spent nearly 2 hours shopping.
Up and down every aisle, had to look at everything even though she had a list.
And it wasn't a big list either, but by the time she got done, she had filled the basket on the motorized scooter she was riding in, and a whole other cart which her son was pushing.
$241 later, she thinks she got everything.
I did need a few things, cereal, milk, dinner for tonight,pet supplies like the cat food I forgot to get the other day, more soda, kool-aid, and a few other things which are completely slipping my mind right now.
Then I just followed her and her son around while she looked at everything.
I can't do that.
I'm one of those people who knows what I need, I go in, get it, and get out.
I cannot spend hours in the grocery store just looking at stuff.
They have food, household cleaners, and basic household crap, why could you possibly need to look at everything?!
So we finally checkout and go outside to call and wait for the cab.
It took them about 10 minutes to get us, but damn it was hot, and damn was she complaining.
So we get home, I had already called the teens to meet us in the driveway to help unload the goods, ours and theirs, because her kid is a lazy bum, and we've now been home for 3 hours.
She just called me to ask if I ended up with her bag that had paper towels in it, and "God only knows what else!", and I said nope, your son was the last one to take groceries from the cab, ask him what he did with it.
She said he doesn't know, which translates to he left it in the cab.
So she needed their phone number to call them and ask if they found her bag of groceries.
For a brief second, I thought she was going to ask me to call them and ask, but amazingly she didn't.
I gave her the number, wished her luck, and hung up.
I don't understand how it took 3 hours to figure out she was missing a bag of groceries, but whatever, I did my good deed for the day, the teens did theirs.
I'm tired again, and I need to find something to eat for dinner.
I bought the teens subs and salad, so they are full and happy, now for me to eat something before I pass out.
All I've eaten was what I had at McD's today.
Later days!
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I've ridden in many a cab, and still live to tell the tale. Cabbies around here are INSANE!
When we didn't have a car, I used to use cabs for grocery shopping, just like you do now. Lugging it all home on the bus is more trouble than it's worth.
I'm another one of those "make a list, go in, pay, get out ASAP". Not only dies this minimize the time you must deal with stupid people in the store, but it saves money. There are many aisles at the store that I NEVER look at, I just don't buy the stuff.
$241.00? I bet she bought a lot of crap she didn't need.
Posted by: Christine | June 12, 2008 1:13 AM
I shamefully say I've never had the experience of riding in a cab...and my father in law even drove a cab for 2 years.
Around here though you don't see many cabs. There's maybe 3 companies that have 1 car each, and the prices are absolutely outrageous. My father in law's company had a $20 ride minimum...mostly used to take college kids from the bar downtown 2 blocks to their dorm when they were too drunk to walk.
I know he had one chick offer to pay him $250 to drive her from the college to the airport (about an hour drive) then to return to pick her up when her flight came in a few days later. He turned it down because he said it would have been way less than his normal fee to drive that far AND schedule a pickup in advance.
Posted by: Jenn | June 13, 2008 3:43 AM