What’s Happening…
Posted By Phil on October 8, 2007
Question: What’s the hot ticket for something to do on the Monday night of a holiday weekend?
Answer: Go to the neighborhood grocery store!
I learned tonight that hanging out at the grocery store at the aforementioned time is totally the place to be. If I was to judge by the number of cars I saw in the parking lot when I arrived there around 7:15 pm, I’d say the place is more popular than most of the clubs in downtown Albuquerque. It was a spectacle the likes of which I’ve never before seen.
- The parking lot was packed. Angry couch potatoes in Sport Utility Vehicles circled the lot, vulture-like in their quest for a spot as close to the grocery entrance as possible. Woe to the pedestrian or shopping cart that gets in their way.
- A few stragglers loitered at the grocery store entrance, awaiting their posse of fellow food-lovers. Lucky for them, though, there’s no cover charge.
- An unusually large throng of people tried to enter the store at exactly the same time. And those darn two-person-wide doorways just couldn’t let them all through at once.
- So many people milled about the produce section and cereal aisle that it was impossible to get through. Those little hand-held baskets wield virtually no influence on anyone when trying to squeeze through to the other side of the aisle.
- The self-checkout lanes had a five-minute wait to them. And the guy behind me kept humming through his teeth to show his impatience, which was pretty damn annoying.
Only you could make a trip to the grocery store interesting. And what about those women with ten kids that are strung out all across the isle?
I, too, ventured to the market last night where I decided I will NEVER set foot post-3:00 p.m. ever again. More than the crowds or the threat being run over by an SUV, I can’t stand the teenagers working there. Either they’re too angsty, to cool, or too *effing* friendly. Give me my 60 year old grandma checkout lady any day!