Dot’s and Kroger, Centerville Ohio:
These are the first strawberries that have looked ok, but I know it’s a chance I’m taking.
Interested in that dipping mustard as well, not had that before.
My lasagna recipe says I need 15 noodles. I was looking at the box, trying to determine how many it might hold, so I googled it and Google told me the very helpful answer of “12-15,” so I bought two boxes.
Chuck roast on sale.
Oh, the deli. Not everyone will get this, but for those who know what I’m referencing, remember the Tim Conway character he used to do on the Carol Burnett, the painfully slow old man?
The lone deli worker at Kroger was that guy’s slower brother.
When I walked up, he was just handing off one order, and about to start the order of the next guy, then it would be my turn. No one else waiting.
“Ok, sir, what can I get you? <wheeeez>”
“Uh, yeah, I’d like 3/4 pound of ham, 3/4 pound of turkey, and 3/4 pound of Swiss cheese, all sliced thin.”
(Deli man looks around)
“Hold on a minute… <wheeeeez> …I gotta find my notepad… <wheeeez> …to write it down…”
(Hobbles off on a trip around the deli, looking for his notepad, finds it, hobbles back)
“Now let’s see…that was three pounds of the turk… <wheeez>”
“No, 3/4 pound of the turkey, 3/4 pound of ham, 3/4 pound of Swiss cheese, all sliced thin.”
“Hold on… <wheeeeeeez> …this pencil’s dull… <wheeeeeez> …lemmee go find another one…”
As soon as I saw that, I started timing him. It took 23 minutes from the time I started watching the clock to when he finished with that guy and got to me.
By that time, a line of about five other people had formed behind me, and the woman directly behind me, watching all of this, she was almost apoplectic, with a, “Oh good lord!” and “Oh my god, what now?!” every 15 seconds, and she’d step off on one foot like she was going to walk away, but then she’d step back and say, “Can you believe this guy?! Oh lord have mercy!”
I was in a good mood, so I didn’t care, and I knew the woman behind me wasn’t going to be too kind when it was her turn, so when I got my stuff, I said, “Don, thank you, I appreciate you getting all that for me,” and he gave me a little wink and pointed his finger at me and said, “Right back atcha!”
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and when I made the traveling Tardis cake with the multi colored tornado/topsy-turvy cake base for 1 of my DGDs. I used a toy tardis, actually it was an adult toy and a bit expensive, so also doubled as part of birthday gifts, for a topper.
