Did you really take a shopping cart home from the store?
Yes, yes we did.
Yesterday when Sebastian and I went grocery shopping, we called for a taxi cab like we had planned on doing, we bought a wicked lot of groceries so we needed a ride home.
Well, the taxi cab's phone rang busy every single time that I called it.
For 20 minutes.
It usually goes to voice mail if they are busy, you leave your name and number, they call you right back and schedule you for a pick-up, so I have no idea why it kept ringing busy, but we had all of that food to get home, meats, milk, and other perishables, so we did what we had to do, the food had already been sitting in the cart in the heat for 20 minutes.
Sebastian and I did what we had to do, we walked home with the grocery cart full of groceries.
Now there's a Publix grocery cart sitting in my laundry room, I didn't want to leave it outside and have it get stolen or have the neighbors look at me funny because come on, having a grocery cart sitting in your driveway is as white trash as having an old rusted out car sitting up on cinder blocks.
All of the way home, people were looking at us like we were total white trash walking the mile long way home.
Yes, we live about 1 mile from the store and we walked home with a grocery cart, it's total white trash! Hahahaha!
At least we got all of the food home before it got ruined, I was seriously worried about the milk spoiling, it was about 80 degrees yesterday and so walking the food home, I was really worried that things would start to spoil, and then there ya go, wasted food and money.
I hate wasting food because it's wasted money.
I always store-up leftovers and when the teens tell me they are hungry, I hand them the Rubbermaid of leftovers and tell them how long to reheat it in the microwave.
I make them finish off the last quarter cup of milk in the gallon, the last slices of bread even if they are the crusted loaf ends, I don't waste any food if it can be helped, so walking the grocery cart home as fast as we could so nothing spoiled was super important to me.
Sure we looked totally silly and totally white trash, but I couldn't reach the cab company so yup, I did what I had to do.
Now I'm just sitting here waiting on the mail man again today.
I'm waiting on 3 things to be delivered this week, the money order from Mom and Dad, the netbook is supposed to be delivered by FedEx by Friday, and a review product is also supposed to be here sometime near the end of this week, so it's a full week of stalking the mailman and other delivery people.
It kind of sucks to have to just sit here with the blinds open and waiting, I have other things that I can be doing, but I don't want stuff to get stolen, and this is the time of year when things get stolen by desperate and ignorant people.
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I actually did that once myself. This was years ago, during the period when Mike was still at MIT, we were living on his student loan money and my small salary from my restaurant job, and we could not afford a car. It was a Sunday, when the buses only run once an hour. Stupid Stop & Shop cashier fucked around enough to make us miss the bus. Called for a cab, one cab showed up, and some jerk with just one bag jumped in front of us and stole it. It was hot out, so we just walked home with the cart with all our groceries in it.
Can't do that any more, though. Last week, after I went out to vote, I got on the bus to go to this same Stop & Shop to pick up a few things, to save Mike from having to stop at a store on the way home from work. As I've done a million times before, I was gonna push the cart to the bust top right outside the store...but now they have it set so that the wheels LOCK before you can take it out of the parking lot. Can't even take it to the lousy bus stop now. Yet another reason I fucking HATE Stop & Shop, but it is the easiest place to get to on the bus. Fuck, now I'll just try to plan better, and do shopping on weekends when Mike's not working and the car is available.
I wrote about this on my Curmudgeon blog, complete with a picture of how close the bus stop is to the store. Would it really kill 'em to let people at least take the carts to the lousy bus stop?
Posted by: Christine | December 14, 2009 3:30 PM
I've had to do that a time or two myself and anybody looking at me like I'm "white trash" gets invited to give me a ride if they think pushing a cart home is such an awful thing for people to see.
Posted by: Selif | December 14, 2009 11:12 PM
My mom and I did this once when we lived in Philadelphia. Her car was at the dealership for repairs, and our grandparents were out of town. We took the bus the 1.4 miles to the grocery store, and wound up taking too long and missing the bus back. Instead of waiting an hour and 15 minutes for the next one, we walked home with the shopping cart. We too felt like white trash, but hey, at least the food was saved and we got home at a decent time! LOL.
Posted by: Jenn | December 15, 2009 10:24 AM