1. If you could have any super mom power, what would it be?
I was moving at a healthy pace through the grocery store aisles with Harper. I wasn’t running, but I wasn’t dawdling either.
It was a healthy pace.
We’re all careful not to crash into people when we come out of an aisle with a cart, am I right? In the lifetime that I have been shopping in grocery stores, I’ve never actually rammed into another human or a human’s cart. I find I’m self aware and confident at the local grocer. I’m an exemplary grocery citizen.
But on this particular occasion, at my healthy pace, I pulled out of an aisle and this father and his two kids were juuuuust out of my view. It’s not like we have little mirrors at the end of our cart to let us know someone is approaching from a few feet beyond our peripheral. That would be quite the luxury.
So I pulled out into the aisle, spotted the family and swooped a little to avoid them. All was well…just another day at the grocery store…until I heard the father say, “See what happens when you don’t look where you’re going around corners kids?”
And I stopped right there in the store and thought, did that man just make a lesson of me to his children? Did he just Grocery shame me? By God I think he did. It’s not like I HIT them!
By the time I turned around to yell, “I’M AN EXEMPLARY GROCERY CITIZEN!!!” they were long gone.
I’m still disturbed by his accusation…I ALWAYS LOOK.
If I had any superpower it would include the ability to stock my kitchen without stepping foot in a grocery store. All I would need to do is think of the item and BAM…it’s in my kitchen. I would save on time AND I would avoid interacting with other grocery citizens.
Now it’s your turn!
Jennifer Worrell says
I would like to be driving the Karma Kart the next time this dude goes to the grocery store! HA!
Mama Kat says
So true…just wait until he rams into a family with his own cart. JUST WAIT!
Stacey says
Good choice of super power. There’s nothing worse than actually hearing someone use you as a bad example to their children.
Mama Kat says
I know, I was shocked! At least it wasn’t for like stealing or something more serious. I’m still flying under the radar in those regards. ;)
Paula Kiger says
That would be one AWESOME super power!!! I have a horrible grocery store/parenting story (don’t we all?) but it was pretty much the only time in 20 years of raising children that I was reduced to a bawling hysterical mess in public, still crying at the cashier. UGH. Thanks for sharing your wish for a super power and I agree with Jennifer – the Karma Kart is headed his way!
Mama Kat says
Oh man, I can only imagine what might have reduced you to tears at the cashier. Adulting is so hard.
Paula Kiger says
The fact that I, who has written about, like, every breath I have taken since 2009, STILL haven’t written about the incident probably says all you need to know. SO. TRAUMATIZED.
Betsy says
It’s unbelieveable how people act! Too bad you couldn’t get those words out before he was gone.
Mama Kat says
We occupy this planet with so many strange humans. I will never understand them all.
Abby says
That’s a brilliant Mom Super Power! I nearly despise fighting the grocery wars.
Another might be to smash that guy’s face in and let him know you were totally looking where you were going with your fist. Only in Hollywood.
Mama Kat says
“with your fist” hahaha! NEXT TIME! For sure next time.
Jerralea says
Almost every week at the grocery store I almost hit someone going around corners. I’m never sure who has the right – of – way. Super Powers would be awesome for grocery shopping!
Mama Kat says
That’s a good point. If it were vehicles at an unmarked intersection, the vehicle to the right always has the right of way. If that were the case in my grocery store experience with that guy…I TOTALLY HAD THE RIGHT OF WAY!
madamdreamweaver says
Wow, that was an uncalled for remark. Must be a Dad entirely unacquainted with what’s normal in a grocery store, because we ALL pop out of aisles to be surprised by another shoppers cart. It’s normal.
Mama Kat says
Right? All I can think is that maybe he had been chirping to his kids about being more careful and was just waiting for anything to prove his point to them. So weird.