Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Whole Foods

Cereal? Aisle 2. Seared Tuna? Have a Seat. – washingtonpost.com
“Americans love to shop, but not for food,” Sansolo says. “They do it as a chore.”

It’s strange that they should say so. It’s really just the opposite for me. The only kind of shopping I can really get into is food shopping. For the most part, other kinds of shopping just annoy me. There’s so much shoddy merchandise out there that I get pissed off because I can’t find, say, a reasonably priced pair of black leggings. I went to three different stores, for Pete’s sake! They’re not that exotic an item. Lots of people wear them. What I found were cheaply made leggings that were too thin and didn’t have enough spandex in them (you could tell they’d be baggy before you’d even worn them three times), or leggings that weren’t tight enough (again, probably a spandex issue). Or, one store had “leggings” that didn’t even have the bottoms of the legs finished! It looked like they’d just cut the feet off a pair of tights and stuck a label on them calling them “leggings”! What a rip-off! Finally, I found some leggings for thirty bucks. They’re nice — they’d damned well better be for that price — with lace around the ankles.

It just pisses me off, though…

But, anyway, I digress.

Food shopping I actually enjoy — probably because I usually do it during the day on weekdays when the grocery stores aren’t crowded. In fact — I’m sure that’s a factor. On the few occasions when I’ve shopped for groceries on a weekend, I quickly become irritated with how STUPID people are. Hello???? Could you move your fucking cart out of the middle of the aisle, please??? Jesus. People are such idiots.

When the store’s not crowded, though, food shopping is a real delight — especially in a store like Whole Foods (mentioned in this Washington Post article.) I stopped in the new Fair Lakes store they talk about just today, as a matter of fact, and it was very pleasant. They’ve got lots and lots of really good looking produce and all kinds of olives and cheeses and yummy fresh bread… mmmmm. They’ve got a decent selection of vegetarian foods, too. It’s a pretty swell place.