Off we went in the pouring rain for the weekly shop...Tesco's today, which is about twenty miles from us, we alternative between the local supermarket which is good, and Tesco's who have a much better stocked shop...even if I don't want to buy half the stuff I see.
It's the packing the bags which is a problem in Tesco's 'cos Himself thinks he's helping...he's still forgetting my oxygen is in the trolley and I'm attached to it and he gives the trolley a sharp yank and I fall forwards hanging onto my poor nose...the woman on the checkout didn't know whether it was alright to laugh or not, so she sort of pulled a funny expression instead...
Then he sort of piles everything willy-nilly into the first bag he comes to...bottles and jars clank away merrily and frozen stuff gets to sit on top of my knitting magazine and the potato crisps are mangled from being under the cabbage.
I sort of hiss at him...put all the frozen stuff together...and so he painstakingly drags it all out and starts again and the woman behind me in the queue raises her eyebrows and I apologise for being slow and she says it's grand and she's glad her husband doesn't go shopping with her 'cos he'd be worse...
And we have a bit of a giggle, which is alright 'cos Himself is quite deaf.
The local supermarket check-out ladies do all the packing for me you see...they are insistent...don't you be touching it they say...you just wait and I'll do it for you and they do and they pack it all properly and ask do I want one of the lads to take the trolley out to the car and that sort of thing.
When we arrive home Himself likes to put everything away...so the frozen prawns sit on the worktop melting while he stacks tins in the cupboard and the Asian stir-fry with noodles ( which is totally delicious) drips onto the floor and I swear the cheese is already growing mouldy, it's been out of the 'fridge for so long.
Another bone of contention is that I'll talk to anyone...Himself isn't a sociable sort of a person at all...he thinks I'm weird to chat to total strangers...and he'll say...who was that you were talking to and I say I haven't the faintest idea, but she wanted to know how to make a fish pie and she asked me if I knew when I picked the frozen fish up...then he gives me a funny sort of a look and goes to get the cat food.
It's still raining and awful cold, so after supper I'm going to bed on the settee to read a new thriller...with a hottie bottle...and the dog.
Such a funny post, made me chuckle! You should do stand up comedy x My hubby sometimes come and is happy enough to push trolley slowly while I flit here and there, quite often when we get to the till there are things I don't recognise like kit kats and chocolate biscuits, he looks at me and says things like "how did they get in there?"
Lovely post, if my oxygen cylinder is full my husband sometimes carries it for me as it is heavy and he forgets I don't walk very fast so he is leading me along like you would lead a bull by the nose! Did you know you can get 2 metre canulas to use with a Marathon oxygen cylinder? I use them when I am shopping as then I can go a bit further from the trolley. Ask your oxygen supplier. Keep smiling
Thank you Carole...my problem is I have to sort of steady myself by holding onto the trolley and if the tubing were any longer I'd be classed as a hazard 'cos of tripping people up!
We shop at tescos and use they price zappers as we go around so we pack as we shop and do not have to move it from the trolley until we get to the car. Loads better and I know more shops are putting it in every week.
I'm determined to do as much as I can myself for as long as I'm able.
Thanks Vashti for another of your great posts...and how funny! Glad to know they look after you in your local shop though nothing beats a good browse around the larger stores from time to time. Mmm, like the sound of the Asian stir fry and noodles.
Mainly shop at my local store where the staff there are also very helpful but every six weeks or so I do online shopping and as I live alone and am without transport this works well. You know how folk say never shop on an empty stomach, ha! well it works just the same when you're sitting at your computer.
There's all the aisle to go down, special offers springing up and colour photographs of all the goodies!
Have a good weekend Vashti along with Himself and all your companion animals...Lovelight xxx
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They are Tesco's own...the stir-fry and noodles I mean...easy to cook and quick! If I was on my own I'd shop on-line I think...would be much easier than waiting until a neighbour offered to take me but while Himself is still upright...lol
Thank you Lovelight....hope your weekend is going ok
What a lovely story at first I thought you were talking about my old man or as I call him { him out doors } he comes home sits down and if by magic a meal appears on the table. He has become an expert on chilling out until I say lets go shopping he turns in to this nerves wreck and almost starts to twitch as we get closer as we go in to the supper market he takes control of the trolley lets face it no one can drive a trolley like a man its at this point he turns from chilled out Bob to Linford Christy off he goes 90 mph he is at the till before I get my list out I don't take him anymore
No he just likes to get in and out in record time he is even worse in Ikea he hates the place we went to Ikea to get our kitchen from start to finish 1 hour that was for the planer to plan it to choosing the doors, handles, sink, hob, oven and fridge it was printed off and we went down stair to pay he thinks Ikea should do a drive through like Mc Donald's
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