Thursday, June 05, 2008

Groceries

What did we do before plastic grocery bags? I can spindle about 45 bags and $856 worth of food along my fingers on any given trip. Which is ironic since if I have $856 to spend at any given time, it ain’t gonna be at Safeway, if you know what I mean. Which is funny, cause I don’t think that was the proper use of the word “ironic.” And now one may argue that I just misused “funny” as well. Oh well, it’s done – like a newborn, you can’t put it back in the box.

Plastic bags are a far cry from the old days, when if you had more than two bags you had to get the bag boy to wheel the shit out to your car for you. I bagged groceries at Food Lion for about 3 days one summer and it was fucking miserable. Whenever I had been in line before, it always seemed like the baggers were having a good time. Standing there yammering with each other, clowning around, whatever - leaving work and heading down to the river to make out with girls and toast baby egg rolls. So I start bagging and this turns out to be the summer that everybody in town decides to buy all the food on planet Earth. At my register. I swear to Christ, nobody ever bought $5, $10, $20 worth of food; everybody seemed to be bringing their paychecks straight to the Food Lion, loading up as much shit as possible onto a bulldozer and then bringing it to me to fucking bag. Christ. And my favorite were the motherfuckers who would insist on rummaging through all the bags as I’m standing there. Because yeah, at some point in the 3 feet separating the two of us I pulled some sleight-of-hand trick and am now the proud owner of your fucking Scramblers. Congrats Deputy Dawg, you fucking nailed me.

Anyway..what the fuck was I talking about?













I like where those baguettes are pointing, lady.

ps - stonewashed dress skirt = anyone's Waterloo. Camon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And what's with all the cities banning plastic bags? Is San Fran now catering to three armed shoppers who can carry all those paper bags? Cuz you know the unions won't let the baggers (which still exist) work longer than 28 minutes without a 20 minute break. YORF!