No, I will not eat the produce with you

[Cookie]

I just got back from my grocery shopping. I went to a local store that specializes in cheap produce and Aldi. At the former, they've had peaches 10/$1 for a while. Sounds wonderful, but the peaches aren't all that great. I keep checking them, though, in the hopes that they'll get some good ones. While I was checking them, I saw a little old lady to my left that had split a peach in half. I saw no knife, so I'm not sure what she used. (her nail??? ) but she had cut it in half and I saw her twist it apart and start eating one half. She took a bite out of it, then shoved the rest of the peach half into her mouth. With a mouth very full of peach, she holds out the other half to me and instructs me to try it to see how good they are.

Me: No thanks.
Lady: No, try it since I already broke one!
Me: No, that's ok. I really don't want any right now.
keep walking keep waking keep walking


Bonus!

On the way home from Aldi, I was pushing my cart load of groceries (I have my own fold-able cart I take with me) and jamming out to the tunes in my earbuds as a couple of boys about 11 or so come down the sidewalk the other direction and one of the kids gives me a huge grin, a thumbs up, and declares "Keep up the good work!". I barely heard him above my music, but he was clear enough. I'm not going to try to understand.

[PepperElf]

personal carts? that's kinda cool

[RetailWorkhorse]

On the way home from Aldi, I was pushing my cart load of groceries (I have my own fold-able cart I take with me) and jamming out to the tunes in my earbuds as a couple of boys about 11 or so come down the sidewalk the other direction and one of the kids gives me a huge grin, a thumbs up, and declares "Keep up the good work!". I barely heard him above my music, but he was clear enough. I'm not going to try to understand.

The kid UNDASTANDS, MON. He'll be dancing along some day, too.

[emax4]

That is a little creepy with the lady and the peach, "Aw yeah, i'll steal some food and it eat right here where staff and management can see me.. NOT!"

Ironic how your avatar is a knife too

[Laund-o-rama Mama]

My mother in law and sister in law have been known to nick food while they shop and "conveniently" forget to pay for it.

[Cookie]

personal carts? that's kinda cool

Here's one not the same, but similar to mine. Mine's a bit more heavy duty, though, so I can cart home 4 chickens, 10 lbs of potatoes, a gallon of milk and a watermelon.

[Shalom]

I, and my mother and grandparents, have had one or more of those for as far back as I can remember. At one time, the store shopping carts all had two hooks on the front end so you could hang your personal cart on them while shopping. I miss those hooks. (Of course you have to live within walking distance of a supermarket to be able to use them. How many people walk to shopping these days? I'm lucky enough to live around the corner from the kosher grocery, so I go with the cart, but I have to leave it in the front of the store.)

[Cookie]

Huh. I've never seen those hooks. I just wheel mine around the store like a regular shopping cart, fill it, and take it through the register. Since my cart is so much smaller, I can weave around store traffic pretty easily. I walk to and from the store. Two of my 3 main stores are only a mile away and just across the street from each other. The other one is 2 miles in the other direction. Time to walk off all this weight I've gained!

[thatcrazyredhead]

On the way home from Aldi, I was pushing my cart load of groceries (I have my own fold-able cart I take with me) and jamming out to the tunes in my earbuds as a couple of boys about 11 or so come down the sidewalk the other direction and one of the kids gives me a huge grin, a thumbs up, and declares "Keep up the good work!". I barely heard him above my music, but he was clear enough. I'm not going to try to understand.

This makes me smile. I love random friendliness (that isn't of the creepy variety).

[katie kaboom]

Ugh, something similar happened to my husband. He bought a hot dog from a street vendor, took one bite of it and it tasted weird. So he asked the guy to give him a new hot dog because the one he had didn't taste right. The guy took the hot dog out of hubby's hand, took a bite of it, said it tasted fine, and handed it back to hubby so he could eat the rest.

Hubby actually asked the guy if he was high.

[Cookie]

Whoa. Thankfully, she didn't hand me the half she had bitten off of, but I'm pretty sure she had cut the thing with her nail. :shudder:

[siead_lietrathua]

I just got back from my grocery shopping. I went to a local store that specializes in cheap produce and Aldi. At the former, they've had peaches 10/$1 for a while. Sounds wonderful, but the peaches aren't all that great. I keep checking them, though, in the hopes that they'll get some good ones.

if you get your fruit from the northeasty canada/us border area, they are probably gonna be all really small. i know lack of rain up here has killed crops in boondockia. but tiny peaches also have a crazy amount of sweetness to them.

/farmer rants lol

[Cookie]

HA! They are small, but they also are hard as a rock (I know, brown paper bag) and bruised and have no smell. Not impressed.

[siead_lietrathua]

eww ya. those shouldnt even be on the floor then.

[Captain Trips]

"Er, no thanks - I don't believe in shoplifting." If it's paid-for-by-the-pound, then they can't just "scan another" at the checkstand to charge you for it. I'll only eat/drink something in the store that I can pay for. (Some stores now have drink-holders built in, I assume for just this purpose as I've seen them at stores that don't have a soda fountain.)

As to the peaches, well, I was in Georgia around 9 years ago, and can't eat any other peaches since then - even from my home state of California. I now know why they are so proud of their peaches, there's nothing like them in that state!