My part of the world has always taken the term “April showers” very seriously. Today was no exception. There was severe lightning, there was hail, there was flooding and there was excessive, driving, sideways rain … all wrapped up in a tornado warning. And I … I was at the grocery store in the midst of all of it. With a basket FULL of assorted, paper-packaged, refrigerator-requiring shit.
I’m such a dumb ass.
Loading AND unloading my car full of groceries has never been a wetter, more harrowing and I’m-guessing-hilarious-to-watch experience in my life. I was truly afraid I was going to struck by lightning today. Thank goodness for people. And humor. And … you know what? Let me back up a little bit.
When I first started grocery shopping, everything was business as usual. It was a little dark outside, but I knew I could get it done quickly. I navigated the aisles like an Olympic skier trying to finish off my handwritten list and get through the check out line before the skies opened.
All was going according to plan until I came to the very last item on my list. I stared at it intently for a few minutes and finally just laughed out loud (maniacally, of course) at the mystery I’d created for myself. Then naturally, like any responsible adult caught in a tornado warning, I turned to Facebook and wrote this post.
In the interest of time and my own personal safety, I decided to dismiss it for the time being and ran to the check out line so I could get home as soon as possible. Imagine my surprise when, after loading bag after bag into my car in the pouring rain and then UNloading it all again at my house, I saw all the responses I’d gotten to that post. There I stood in my kitchen surrounded by saturated, distintegrating cardboard packaging. I was so wet that my underwear and bra were actually dripping. And all I could do was laugh.
Take a look.
You people are hilarious!!!
I should add that … for the record … my disgraceful, physician-writing-a-prescription-style handwriting is reserved only for personal things like grocery lists. My real penmanship is totally legible and has even been complimented on occasion.
Oh, and a few of you actually guessed right, by the way. The mystery grocery item on my list was in fact ….
For the record, I never figured it out at the store. But they were on sale (two for one!), so I guess fate … or the Winn-Dixie gods … intervened today.
You guys are the best. The comments are still coming in. Thanks for the laughs!
OldDogNewTits 
That is hilarious….. and incidentally I think you wrote, “Wheat Thins and Wine”!!
Yes. Well, it would seem that I already imbibed before I wrote this list. 🙂
I peed a little… LOL
Love that Gene guys’ response, about calling the 888 number. Too funny.
Isn’t that hilarious? I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. People are funny, Freda. 🙂
lmao XD
Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
I have atrocious handwriting, whether it’s just for me (lists) or for “real.” Several months ago I came out of the grocery store to find it just pouring. Eh, what’s a little rain, I had an umbrella. So I made the trek out to the car and it was too late to turn back when I realized the water in the parking lot was up to my shins. I had on shorts I think but my poor sandals got a good soaking. I must have looked like the biggest fool loading up my car while standing in the high water. 🙂
You almost wish someone was video-Ing you in those moments. Almost …
Clearly that last item is “uniforms”! Ha! Love all the responses that you received. 🙂
Uniforms. Well, if it was July, there’d be a fighting chance that was true! 🙂
How funny!!
Thanks, David. 🙂
Thanks for the laugh!!! I love the part about posting it on Facebook from the store!
Have a dry day! 😉
It was the only responsible thing to do.
Motherhood and rain…never fail to screw up our otherwise perfect intelligence, right?! First visit to your blog…LOVE it! I’ll definitely be back!
Nothing makes it rain faster than me filling a cart with $200 of groceries. Nothing.
And thanks. Come back … often! 🙂
Lol I do this often!!!! Nothin makes u feel moronic than not being able to read your own writing. Lol
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It was so comical that I really just felt compelled to mock myself in a very public forum. I probably do that way more than I should. But I just keep giving myself so many damned opportunities! 🙂
Awesome! I so do this!!! I end up feeling like an idiot but I love your take on it! I am not alone with not being able to read my writing:)
It’s a gift. 🙂