Ok, so my HEB experience wasn't all that fun. I was hoping this trip to the store would bring rain. I purposefully didn't bring an umbrella even though it was threatening a storm. I think the weather is catching on to my scheme to outwit it. It continues to not rain even though it would be funny if I got "caught" being prepared or if I just washed the car.
This was the first trip in quite some time to the store without Cody. Unfortunately, I had to buy heavy items like 2 gallons of milk, o.j., cat food and soda. This made for an unreasonably long trip to load the cart as well as my car, then unloading it all at the house. I didn't have a particularly pleasant experience at the store with the people there tonight. It didn't seem like people were being courteous by moving out of the way when in the middle of the aisle or creating "road blocks" by stopping their carts immediately next to another cart so no one else can get by. I had one lady just stare at me as I was trying to figure out which way she was going to go toward the sausages. Was she stopping where she was? Was she going to go left/right? I ended up squeezing past her, too!
Then at the register, the cashier lady left her register to go get a bag of sugar for the lady checking out because they were "sistas". I'm not making that up. The customer greeted the cashier with, "Hey, my sista!" Meanwhile, I was trying not to pass out because I just loaded the conveyer with the heavy items I was purchasing and became very obviously hot and had to fan myself with my shopping list. After the customer left and it was my turn, the lady greeted me, scanned my items and bagged them. That was it. I loaded my cart by myself and left.
Aren't they supposed to help you load, too? I thought people were supposed to be nicer to senior citizens, disabled and pregnant women! Maybe I was just expecting too much from my neighborhood HEB. But, one very nice man did offer to take my cart inside for me. I may have thanked him too much.
