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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

January 2 at the Grocery Store

First, I would like to thank Momma the Magnificant for stopping by Formula Fed and Flexible Parenting yesterday as part of the Blog Exchange. It was great having you here, and I really enjoyed your post!

I know January 1 is supposed to be a day of change since it's the start of the New Year and New Year's resolutions. However, since nothing is open on January 1, people have no public outlet to display their new behaviors. Thus the day of change really seems to be January 2nd. Yet, somehow every year I seem to forget that. That's why I was so surprised by seeing people suddenly acting very differently wherever I went. My first odd encounter was at the gym. You can read about that adventure on People Under the Stairmasters.

Afterwards, I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things including Cheerios since I'm hoping to start my younger son (YS) on his first finger food tomorrow. In my experience, most grocery purchases in the evening contain a wide variety of snacks that appear selected to satisfy an immediate craving. Not today. The people in line ahead of me and behind me all had really healthy food. Not a piece of junk food in sight. Was I surrounded by Stepford Shoppers, or was I in a world where everyone else was trying to live by a New Year's resolution to eat healthy?

It was my turn to be rung up. The cashier, who is always on duty late in the evening when I shop on my way home from the gym, scanned my jars of baby food, Cheerios etc. Then he came to my bag of Tater Tots, and he did something that he has never done before in my years of shopping from him. "Is this yours?" he asked? I told him it was, but his question threw me for a loop. Why wouldn't they be mine? Was I an outcast for not conforming to the group resolution to eat healthy for at least two full days? Was he surprised because he was not used to seeing tater tots as part of my typical cornucopia of selected snacks in my evening voyages? Was he himself a servant to the larger movement, trying to make me feel guilty for buying a frozen, deep-fried product so early in a new year. Or was there a more innocent explanation, that perhaps he thought the people behind me had accidentally put their purchase over the line divider and into my things?

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Who knew that one bag of tater tots could lead to so many questions.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 11:04 PM   5 comments
5 Comments:

  • At 1/03/2007 12:06 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Brings to mind one of the opening scenes in the Woody Allen movie "Bananas" where he tries to unobtrusively buy porn by burying it in a pile of serious news magazines, but gets caught when the cashier keeps yelling for a price check on the dirty mag. Funny post and oh so true.
    -J

     

  • At 1/03/2007 9:46 AM, Blogger Suzanne said…

    One thing that I am happy about in '07 is that I have a whole year of reading your blog ahead of me. Seriously, I think I love it more every day.

     

  • At 1/03/2007 10:02 AM, Blogger super des said…

    He obviously didn't get the relationship between busy mom + 2 young sons = tater tots.

     

  • At 1/05/2007 3:00 PM, Blogger Damselfly said…

    At least his "Is this yours?" question didn't refer to something like hemorrhoid cream or ...! Is it a tater tot only if it's in a little roundish shape? Because I like those "potato patties" that are essentially flat tater tots.

     

  • At 1/06/2007 11:54 PM, Blogger Alex Elliot said…

    I actually like the patties, the best too! I just thought the tater tots would go over better with my 3 year old. Who am I kidding though? It's been my husband and I who've wound up eating them so far.

     
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