Parenting Problems and Melon related Mayhem (Yep, Lupo went grocery shopping again...

[Pagan]

What? Okay, so I actually LIKE Ginger Beer. I even drew a frikken picture.

So do my dad and I! Cost Plus has a good one - Bundaberg

[lupo pazzesco]

*Sputters*

I TAKE IT BACK I TAKE IT BACK! Don't take the Bacon awaaaaaay!

Hey, RW...two minutes and a pic of you in the sparkly halter and I've got some center cut, freshly smoked bacon with YOUR name on it. (Lupo stopped by Whole Foods on the way home...this is the good shit...)

[RetailWorkhorse]

*Opens mouth to object*

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*Closes mouth*

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Pass the damned halter.

[SG15Z]

Looks like I'm late to the party as usual. Been a long weekend..... So long it's already Tuesday? Geeze....

Well, considering what my last few trips have been like, I got off relatively easy this time.

This is getting off easy for you? I don't understand I rarely encounter any people like this when I go shopping. Then again I do a good job of getting in and out as quickly as possible with little to no human interaction.

me: 1 SCs: 0

You're keeping score now? Perhaps you should have a scorecard in your sig then.

Her: ARE YOU CALLING ME A THIEF??!!
Me: Well, they took a product and consumed it without paying for it...what's the word for that...oh yes. THEFT.
Her: <Insert CBF, as she flips me the bird and grudgingly pays. Oh, the horrors, we made her waste $2 or so for her little angels!!>

Yes consuming product before you pay for it is theft. Thank you for clarifying that with this idiot. I can't count how many times I've wanted to say something to these kind of people. But you know management...

Me: EXCUSE you? Can you put MY stuff back in MY cart so I can continue MY shopping?!?
Him: But you weren't using it!
Me: I was in the restroom. The sign said not to take stuff in so I didn't. <I start picking up my stuff and try to put it back in the cart, and he scoots it away>
Him: you weren't here! Finders, keepers!
Me: What are you, 12?
Him: we need a cart!!
Me: <I look over at the cart bay where there are 50 or so carts stocked, look back at him, then look at the cart bay again.> Seriously...?
Him: Fine! Take it! Let's go, boys. The mean woman won't let us have a cart, so we have to find another one.
Me: Enjoy your shopping!

I've had people do this to me. I'll have a shopping cart full put backs and walk away to do something then come back to find a customer pulling out all of the product and placing it wherever and taking the cart. I mean what the hell!? I would think walking the extra 15 steps to the front where the carts are at would be less effort, but whatever. I would think one would grab a cart when one enters the building since they're right there! But no they pass them and then look for an empty basket elsewhere like it's some sort of quest.

Look we have found the Holy Basket! Jesus use to do his shopping with this very cart!

Story the Fourth: Melon related Mayhem
I was perusing the cantaloupes, and managed to find one I wanted and placed it in my cart. Enter old sow, who started shrieking that I took HER cantaloupe!

Well you don't understand. That was the Holy Cantaloupe! That "sow" as you call her had been searching for that melon her whole life! And now here she is at the end of her epic quest across Middle-EarthHarris County, and just as she sees it and has a whole slow motion trek towards the produce section, You take the melon for yourself!

See don't you understand it was her destiny!

Story the Fifth
I ordered an iced tea lemonade

Mmmmmmmmm.............

[Magpie]

[QUOTE=SG15Z;718429Yes consuming product before you pay for it is theft. Thank you for clarifying that with this idiot. I can't count how many times I've wanted to say something to these kind of people. But you know management...[/QUOTE]

I got the impression that the guy wasn't planning on paying AT ALL, let alone later.

And for ginger beer:

Grate about half a cup of ginger. It's really really difficult to do fresh, I find that I can use my rasp if it's frozen, otherwise I need to just use the coarse grater.

Pour three cups boiling water over the ginger and let sit overnight.

Strain off the liquid, add four whole cloves, 1-2 tbsp lemon juice and 1/2-1 cup sugar or molasses to taste (I suggest brown sugar, straight molasses is a bit earthy).

Dilute as needed.

(recipe from The World of Street Food, you seriously want to go to your local Ten Thousand Villages and get a copy. We've had it a couple of months and haven't made it out of Africa.)

[Evil Queen]

SG15Z, I've shopped with Lupo and have discovered that EVERYWHERE you go is suck! She just pays far more attention to it than I do.

There was the instance at the House of Pie (which I missed most of but I caught the end), once at Whole Foods (kids..... samples.... gah) and I think there was another at HEB (again... kids....).

[lupo pazzesco]

SG15Z, I've shopped with Lupo and have discovered that EVERYWHERE you go is suck! She just pays far more attention to it than I do.

Excuse me for being aware of my surroundings to an almost paranoid degree...

>.<

[Pagan]

I would think one would grab a cart when one enters the building since they're right there!

I have to admit, there's been a few times that I haven't grabbed a cart on the way in, but in my defense, I didn't realize until later that I did, in fact, need one. However, I walked my happy ass back up to the front and got one. And at a couple of the stores that keep them outside the front door, I even let the checkers know that's what I'm doing!

And now here she is at the end of her epic quest across Middle-EarthHarris County, and just as she sees it and has a whole slow motion trek towards the produce section, You take the melon for yourself!

Heh, I'm in the middle of watching those movies again.

And now I want cantaloupe. >.<

And for ginger beer:

Grate about half a cup of ginger. It's really really difficult to do fresh, I find that I can use my rasp if it's frozen, otherwise I need to just use the coarse grater.

Pour three cups boiling water over the ginger and let sit overnight.

Strain off the liquid, add four whole cloves, 1-2 tbsp lemon juice and 1/2-1 cup sugar or molasses to taste (I suggest brown sugar, straight molasses is a bit earthy).

Dilute as needed.

(recipe from The World of Street Food, you seriously want to go to your local Ten Thousand Villages and get a copy. We've had it a couple of months and haven't made it out of Africa.)

Keep it in the freezer! I feel like such a dork not thinking of that! *runs and puts the knuckle that I just got in the freezer*

And I will most certainly be trying this recipe, too.

One bright spot in the crap that is my life right now is that I'm getting to do more cooking than normal. Right now I'm making ketchup.

SG15Z, I've shopped with Lupo and have discovered that EVERYWHERE you go is suck! She just pays far more attention to it than I do.

I think you're like me. It's not that you don't notice, it's just that you're not letting it penetrate because you might start killing people. I don't know how Lupo does it.

[Magpie]

Keep it in the freezer! I feel like such a dork not thinking of that! *runs and puts the knuckle that I just got in the freezer*

I store it the way my mother does it - unpeeled, and then I peel it before use. I've heard that you don't actually need to peel it, but I've also heard that a good way to store it is to peel and slice it THEN freeze it. But I wouldn't want to try grating it after it was sliced.

[lupo pazzesco]

I think you're like me. It's not that you don't notice, it's just that you're not letting it penetrate because you might start killing people. I don't know how Lupo does it.

Mostly it's cuz I get dragged in kicking and screaming against my will. Seriously. EQ, remember the SHOE MAN!?! You abandoned me to his nefarious purposes, and his banana yellow pumps from hell!! I wasn't asking for that, really I wasn't...

[Pinkie]

Am I the only one that thinks 'Shopping with Lupo' would be a fantastic reality show?

Where is the "Like" button?

[Mr Hero]

That, my darling, is a given. I'm talking about compensation for providing entertainment.

(Is it just me, or did that just make me sound like a hooker...?)

Well, someone DID tell you to surrender your melons.

[dalesys]

Well, someone DID tell you to surrender your melons.

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Race you to the gutter?

[Evil Queen]

EQ, remember the SHOE MAN!?! You abandoned me to his nefarious purposes, and his banana yellow pumps from hell!! I wasn't asking for that, really I wasn't...

I said I was sorry!!!

[SG15Z]

Of course I don't pay attention to my surroundings when I shop. Why would I want to?!

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West?

Where the Wild Things Are?

Downhill?

Race you to the gutter?

The gutter? We're usually aiming for the sewer with most threads.