Well yesterday, I felt brave. I was going to make my menu, make my shopping list and brave the wind and rain to go grocery shopping so I could feed my family. Oh yeah, and take the 2 younger kids with me! (I guess I had a momentary bout of insanity, no, wait, that's the norm.)
Shelby and I sat down and made the menu, I then made the list of things we needed and we got dressed and headed out to the store. I figured on a rainy, cold Saturday most people would still be at home and in their jammies. We got to our newly finished Super WalMart to start our attack. Upon entering the doors, there was a nice lady standing there that asked if we would like to have a free re-usable shopping bag for the....wait for it....GRAND OPENING....OH NO! SHOOT ME NOW! I had NO idea that it was grand opening weekend, this darn store has been open the whole time, and they finished a few weeks ago. Well, with a happy face, I said yes, and decided to go ahead with my plan of attack. Off to the produce! I managed to get through the grocery part with not too much of a problem from the kids except for a few outbursts of them trying to kill one another in the cart, then it was off to paper goods and bath and body. We managed to fair well in those departments...wow, this is turning out to be a really nice trip with them! I am excited! On to the toy department for some browsing (we have a birthday next month and Christmas is coming up rather quickly! And, I told them they could have a SMALL prize for behaving.).While I am standing there on the toy isle I am making mental notes of what the kids really like and what they sincerely want for Christmas. I have now been on this ONE isle for 30 minutes, I have examined every Barbie, Tinker Bell, Fijit, Teacup Piglet, Polly Pocket, Monster High, Bratz, Littlest Pet Shop and Squinkie known to this one WalMart. Now, people are starting to fill into the toy department. I finally get her to come to the BOY isle so that poor little Logan can look and see what he would like. He quickly chooses a Bakugan (however you spell it). So, off we go. Shelby decides she needs to go back to the toy department and find something there that she would like. OFF SHE GOES! So, I follow behind. I stood there and waited, and waited, and waited. At this point there are people walking around the store with balloon animals and cotton candy (OH NO! So not what I wanted to deal with!!) thankfully my children were oblivious to it. I finally convinced Shelby that we should go see if we could find something for her in another area of the store. After a good solid hour of being on this one toy isle, she decided that it was better to go with me than stay there with the strangers. SUCCESS! I am now headed to check out! Well, she finally found what she wanted, a $3.00 Tinker Bell Cell Phone. GLADLY. Put it in the buggy and LET'S GET OUT OF HERE! The people were getting thick and I was starting to lose all composure. Then, I saw it. The awful, LONG LINE waiting for balloon animals and cotton candy. The kids looked at me with pleading eyes and begged for the chance to get an animal and cotton candy. "NO!, All of our time was spent in the toy section, now, we have to pay and leave." (I'm such a MEAN ASS Mom!!)
Ahhhhh, the calm of the check out line....oh wait, there is a woman using coupons....not that I mind couponers, I am one, however, WalMart does not have their shit together for coupons yet and most of them they have to enter manually, they won't scan. So, I wait, trying to entertain the youngsters with anything I can think of. FINALLY, it's our turn at check out!! The kids are so excited that they MUST have their items as soon as they are rung up. So, they stand there, playing with their toys while I load the buggy with all of the purchased fruit, vegetables, canned goods and paper products. My order is almost done when I hear a bagger asking the lady in the isle next to me if she has more items in her buggy because she has run out of room to bag things and needs to start loading them into the empty buggy. No biggie, right? I have baggers ask me that all the time. OH LORD! Katy Bar the DOORS! This woman had a complete outright temper tantrum in the middle of WalMart while unloading her buggy!! The bagger asked if she could just bring the buggy down a bit (the entire buggy was empty with the exception of stuff in the very top, where a child would sit). This customer proceeded to YELL at her "NO! YOU WILL WAIT FOR ME TO FINISH! I DIDN'T COME HERE TO BE HARASSED! I WANT A MANAGER HERE NOW BEFORE THIS GETS WORSE!" WOW, really lady? She just asked if she could start putting stuff that YOU purchased into the buggy, it's not worth all that now. The bagger looked at her and said "Ma'm, I'm not trying to harass you, I was just asking if I could start putting your stuff in the buggy because I am out of room here." I felt so bad for the bagger. Poor woman was just trying to do her job and she got screamed at! I looked at my cashier and said "WOW!", she was just shaking her head. Needless to say, we high tailed it out of there as fast as we could so as not to be in the middle of DRAMA! I hate drama.
Today I am waiting for my DH to get home from work so that we can get over to my grandmother's house and have his birthday dinner/party. I hope it goes well for him, last year was bad, MeeMaw was in the hospital and we didn't get to have a party for him because of work.
Here's to a great end to a nice weekend!
How was your weekend?
~Lou~
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