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!