I can't even describe it. I would compare it to a huge Wal-Mart sale on Christmas Eve, for a week straight, but I have never been done crazy shopping on Christmas Eve, so I wouldn't know. This was way more than anything I had ever experienced, and it was in the supermarket!
Unfortunately we needed to go to the store the day before New Year's Eve. I was prepared for the worst. I packed my iPod and a few podcasts to drown out the music, planned to spend as long as it took to do our shopping for the week and get out of there. I had a plan for procuring a shopping cart since last week I didn't get one and had a miserable time dragging around my hand cart.I pushed my way through crowds, avoided the New Years decoration aisle, waited patiently to navigate through the displays of special New Year gift boxes of fruit, dried meat, and wine.
But I was unprepared for the lines.
The check-out linesMy cart ended up being a liability for me here, because after I waited about an hour in line the pushers started shoving and people abandoned their carts so they could push their way through line. I was trapped between two abandoned carts and had to grab whatever I could carry from my cart and push my way through.
Abandoned carts cluttering the aisles. These poor souls didn't make itThe lady who had been in line behind me for the better part of an hour helped me, the novice line-pusher, through the worst bottleneck. The baby crying in her daddy's arms in front of me was passed over the crowds from person to person until she could reach her mommy and escape the cart traffic jam. It was a battlefield there in the RT Mart check-out lines.
Tim was crazy/brave enough to go back the next morning for the things that had been abandoned in my cart. He arrived early enough to beat the crowds, but he said it was like a faucet, people just kept pouring in. He fared much better than I did.
We have vowed not to go back until Tuesday, at the earliest!
4 comments:
Wow, that's crazy! I'm glad you made it out alive!
What an adventure! I love the animals at dinner. :) And congrats on Milan being potty trained! You both must feel very accomplished!
That shopping trip sounds like my worst nightmare. My cart would have been abandoned quickly. Eeesh.
Catching up here. Actually I log onto your blog when I can, but the connection here usually does not let me post comments for some reason. Today I can -horray! Anyway, just wanted to say that the New Years shopping seems horrendous - I had no idea! - V
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