Beware Double Strollers in the Grocery Store Line

The following is a long story about mostly nothing really. Just amusing!

This morning at the grocery store, I lucked out and scored a checkout line with a lady (grandma, but active-young-grandma) with an infant and a toddler in a double stroller, who had just a single item on the conveyor. She was calming the fussy baby when I pulled in behind them.

When the baby was quieter, she reached under the stroller, and from a space I couldn't see, began pulling items and placing them on the conveyor. Peaches, peanut butter, croutons...

A little helping hand popped up from the stroller, holding a can of bathroom cleaner. Grandma placed the cleaner on the conveyor and reached down again into the stroller basket. The baby started wailing again.

Bagged salad, yogurt, yogurt, yogurt, two packages of raw chicken... It was seriously a clown car of groceries.

As she's placing the 22nd item on the conveyor, the mom shows up. She has an armload of items she adds to the checkout.

"Did you bring reusable grocery bags?" asks the checker.

"No. We'll have to buy them."

Checker adds a few bags to the pile.

Grandma pulls one more item from the Magical Stroller of Infinite Storage. (Where the heck were these when I had a baby? Maybe I should have had a double stroller.)

I was completely cool with all of this, mostly because I've been there, with the crying baby and trying to get out of the store with the precious few groceries I'd managed to pick up before things got out of hand, and also, it was so funny.

Next, a manager pops up from around the corner and plops a "LANE CLOSED" sign at the end of the conveyor.

Ahaha!

"Of course, this lane will close after you!" he told me. Thank goodness.


Friday 5 for August 26: Two Thousand Zero Zero Party Over Oops Out of Time

1. What’s your favorite song from 1999?

"Angel" Sarah McLachlan

2. What are some of your favorite films from 1999?

The Sixth Sense

Girl, Interrupted

Dogma

Office Space

Three Kings

3. What’s something interesting that happened on your birthday in 1999?

Well, I've now Googled this to death and absolutely nothing happened on my birthday in 1999. Ha!

4. How did you ring in the new year as 1999 became 2000?

We celebrated at home with little LoLo (6 years old) and Spankyroo!

MEOWlennium. *snort*

5. What’s something that’s gotten better since 1999?

Our retirement funds!