[Sca-cooks] shopping shyness?

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:07:22 -0500
  Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise 
<jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
> Ok, so I was taught to shop by my Grandfather (one of 
>the great grocery 
> shoppers of all time), my mom, and 
>Florence-my-ex's-Jewish-mother, so 
> maybe my shopping habits are a bit odd. But I've never 
>had any problem 
> or concern about conversing with people about what I'm 
>buying all this 
> food for. After all, if you walk out of the Food4Less 
>with 80 loaves of 
> bread, the little old men *will* ask if you are having a 
>hoagie sale. 

it was early december, 1999.  it was my first major feast, 
feeding 300.

DH banged a u turn in the middle of Eubank Street to go to 
a SoLo rather than Smith's because i just scanned a 'sale 
sheet' that said chicken thighs were 29 cents (!!!!) a 
pound.   SoLo was one of those betwixt and between 
stores... not really warhouse but more than food store 
chain.

so there we were, each in the checkout line with a cart 
full of chicken thighs.  this cute little boy looks at us, 
eyes wide.  he tugs on his mom's blouse and says in that 
loud clear voice that only 
children-about-to-embarrass-someone have and said.....

"Momma!   They must have millenium fever!"

we were hysterical, momma was mortified, and the kid 
turned his attention back  to his candybar.

cailte
about to do the same today, only the price isn't as good
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