December 11, 2007
Went to the grocery for the first time since I finished my book–to my family's great relief.
(Although I had typed "The End" last Sunday, I still had massaging and tweaking to do, a few loose ends to tie up…and so I didn't finish that and turn it in to my editor until Thursday. So now I am free!…until she gets back to me.)
There were a few things that gave me pause as I traversed the aisles….
1. Why would a woman wear a long faux-fur trimmed wool coat…and flip-flops? Flip-flops? In Michigan in December? (In the Dairy aisle, no less.)
2. They have TUMS in a little shelf display…right by the Mexican food. *snort*
3. Despite the proximity of Christmas, I didn't get a frenetic, desperate sense from people. Everyone, everyone was unfailingly, sincerely polite and calm….
4. There are lots of new kinds of apples: ambrosia apples, pinata apples, honeycrisp apples. Yum.
5. Live lobsters are ugly sons-of-bitches, aren't they?
December 11th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Every time I see a lobster in the grocery store, I have a fantasy of breaking the glass and setting them free…but what would I do with them until I could get them to the ocean — which is three hours away…and I bet they wouldn’t be very grateful, anyway. Just another damn human trying to eat them (which I don’t but I doubt if they’d believe me).
December 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
ROFL re the woman in the fur coat and flip-flops! I hate flip-flops at any time of year, but in winter?! That’s just insane!
December 11th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Faux-Fur Trimmed anything makes me gag. My new coat came with a fur rimmed hood, but thank God you could zip it out. Only awkward thing is I have this weird strip of fur hanging around my bedroom now.
December 11th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I hadn’t thought about it, but you are right. I haven’t gotten that frantic/frenetic sense from those around me this Christmas season either. It has been very, very nice!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:07 am
The woman with the faux-fur trimmed coat may be going through menopause after having too many children. Not that I would know anything about that. I’m just saying. No, really.
Are you sure the woman is not a vampire hunter in cognito?
December 12th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Tums next to the Mexican food? You must have been at Meijer. The first time I ever noticed that placement, I thought, “There is a floor planner who needs a raise.”
Also, I saw the pinata apples this morning and misread the sign. I thought it said “poisoned apples.”
December 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
The college student crowd around here - the UP in winter - are still wearing their shorts along with their flip flops! I’ve always chalked that up to too much alcohol on too little sleep with an overdose of studying occasionally thrown in.
Finals start next week and then we have almost a month of quiet! Yippee!
Where do they keep getting these ‘new’ apples? And why do I have such a difficult time getting MacIntosh for pies?
cjh
December 16th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Lobsters = bugs o’ the sea.
I’ve seen honeycrisp apples, but not the other two. Exciting! If you smack the pinata apple, do the seeds fall out?
As for your family…What, their legs were broken and they couldn’t go to the store? Poor things.