A couple of things about shopping
Good day readers and followers. One of these days my advertisement board for this blog will get back up and running. It was taken down for inactivity because I had it linked to my former blog E-dating and the new reality. I had to work on the changeover and now the Google folks have to help me, but you can't communicate with them. There's no e-mail, mailbox, phone, nothing. They're like the woman I might want to date but I didn't get her number after a great conversation....which is a stupid thing I do way too often.
Anyway, I hope you're all well and warm and happy. It's a Saturday here in Questionnopolis and I have to run a couple errands. Since I don't have a mate, a spouse or even an IN-significant other I will do the errands with my Granddaughter. Back in the day, when I was married, we didn't run too many errands together. I guess it was a generational thing. Maybe it was because we had children from the age of 22 and would've needed to bring the girls along. I don't really recall.
I noticed that the current generation likes to shop as couples. As a people watcher I find it intriguing. These young couples mostly don't have children, although they seem to be all the way up to their mid thirties. There aren't too many disagreements in the grocery aisle of life. "Hey babe, we need, milk...from a cow, get 1% for you and 2% for me and we will all get along so happily. Cheese please, sure- you get Havarti and I'll have Swiss, if we agree to disagree then when it comes to life, we just can't miss." Yeah, it all seems so perfect. I'm sure it's not or I just live the happiest place on earth.
Weird. Weird to me. Maybe my relationship was always worse then I ever really knew, but the truth was that my ex was clinically proven to have bi-polar disorder. It was diagnosed several years into the relationship. For the uninformed it is quite a disorder. Bi-polar is a disruption to anything that could make a trip to the supermarket an excursion to hell. So, while I view the current generation with curiosity and smile at their happiness, it may be that I just never really knew a truly normal coupled existence.
I always preferred to do my shopping unaccompanied, especially for groceries. The exception was going to the hardware or home supply store- then my great friend Jeff was usually my shopping mate. It's much more difficult to unload a supply of 2 x 12's, 4 x 4's and plywood sheets then bags of limes and lemons by yourself. The local home supply store is not a place where I see many couple shopping, not at the beer store or drugstore either. Groceries are somehow a couples- shopping thing. Yeah, like I said, I'm a people watcher, not in a creepy way. It all sprung out of some required undergraduate academic requirements and I've stayed forever attuned to interpersonal communication.
The Answerman says "You can't shop for happiness, emotions can be neither bought nor sold. You can go looking for love but it usually finds you. If the produce aisle produces more than fruits and vegetables for the millenials then it's just as good for everyone."
Anyway, I hope you're all well and warm and happy. It's a Saturday here in Questionnopolis and I have to run a couple errands. Since I don't have a mate, a spouse or even an IN-significant other I will do the errands with my Granddaughter. Back in the day, when I was married, we didn't run too many errands together. I guess it was a generational thing. Maybe it was because we had children from the age of 22 and would've needed to bring the girls along. I don't really recall.
I noticed that the current generation likes to shop as couples. As a people watcher I find it intriguing. These young couples mostly don't have children, although they seem to be all the way up to their mid thirties. There aren't too many disagreements in the grocery aisle of life. "Hey babe, we need, milk...from a cow, get 1% for you and 2% for me and we will all get along so happily. Cheese please, sure- you get Havarti and I'll have Swiss, if we agree to disagree then when it comes to life, we just can't miss." Yeah, it all seems so perfect. I'm sure it's not or I just live the happiest place on earth.
Weird. Weird to me. Maybe my relationship was always worse then I ever really knew, but the truth was that my ex was clinically proven to have bi-polar disorder. It was diagnosed several years into the relationship. For the uninformed it is quite a disorder. Bi-polar is a disruption to anything that could make a trip to the supermarket an excursion to hell. So, while I view the current generation with curiosity and smile at their happiness, it may be that I just never really knew a truly normal coupled existence.
I always preferred to do my shopping unaccompanied, especially for groceries. The exception was going to the hardware or home supply store- then my great friend Jeff was usually my shopping mate. It's much more difficult to unload a supply of 2 x 12's, 4 x 4's and plywood sheets then bags of limes and lemons by yourself. The local home supply store is not a place where I see many couple shopping, not at the beer store or drugstore either. Groceries are somehow a couples- shopping thing. Yeah, like I said, I'm a people watcher, not in a creepy way. It all sprung out of some required undergraduate academic requirements and I've stayed forever attuned to interpersonal communication.
The Answerman says "You can't shop for happiness, emotions can be neither bought nor sold. You can go looking for love but it usually finds you. If the produce aisle produces more than fruits and vegetables for the millenials then it's just as good for everyone."
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