Shopping

Grocery shopping is an art now. It is no longer the mindless chore that it used to be. There was a time when you could go to the store and quickly grab a can of tomatoes off the shelf and move on to the next item on your list. Those days are gone forever! Tomatoes for example:do you want Petite diced, plain diced, diced with green chilis, tomatoes with peppers,or with onions, Italian flavored, tomato wedges,tomato with garlic and onions,crushed tomatoes, whole peeled tomatoes, tomatoes with no salt, or with salt... It doesn't end there. You have choices of what kind of green beans, Julienne cut beans, French cut, whole beans, just plain cut beans. No longer mindless! You could spend 20 or 30 minutes in the canned goods aisle alone.

When you finally make it to the hosiery section you could go into shock. Have you ever seen the size chart on the panty hose package? No wonder so many women are going bare legged now a days! You must be focused and able to concentrate to the max before you attempt to determine what size you need. Are you a size A? size B, C,? I seriously doubt that you are any one of those sizes. They give weights and hights possibilities to help you along but you find if you are five feet tall and weigh 100 lbs. you take a size A but if you are 5'6" tall and weigh 100 lbs. you also take a size A. A Masters degree in hosiery size scales is required. I've frequently gone home with a pair and when I tried to wear them, I find that no matter how many plie's I do, the hose still come just above my knees. I get a larger size the next time ,a size B perhaps and find that they are baggey at the ankles and I look like Ruth B. from Laugh In. It's a discouraging task.

I've come home from the grocery with Velveeta with Jalepenos, Mayo with olive oil, unsugared apple pie, unsalted peanuts, not that I could't make do with those items,but I'm just sayin'.

Just to add insult to injury, go shop on Geezer day! It's a whole new world out there. Gridlock in the aisles, run away oranges, and so on makes for a treacherous adventure. However you save 10% if you are extremely mature! If you do go and see a five foot tall woman, scaling the shelves in an attempt to reach the Cream of Wheat on the top shelf, give her a hand, it could be me. Ciao