Grocery Shopping`
Grocery shopping.
Okay for most people grocery shopping isn’t that big of a deal. You hop into to the car, drive to the grocery store and then walk into the store grab a cart and then proceed to fill it with the items on your list. Then check out and possibly get some help putting your groceries in car and then your on your way back to you house to unload it with very little problems* For most people it’s something that they don’t give too much thought too until they need food again and then it’s off to store once again.
This description is good for anybody that has access to a vehicle however if you don’t have a car grocery shopping takes on a entirely different aspect. Like okay how I am going to get my 15 bags of groceries home with only two hands and a backpack? A even better question is how do you even get to the grocery store in the first place. Now if you happen to live in a town with an adequate public transportation network and don’t have a car, it’s a manageable, though tough challenge. Thankfully Mammoth lakes Ca does have a very good bus system. The town does need it because the town gets over 400 inches of snow a year in the winter and most of the time it’s a lot easier to just to get on the bus to head up to the mountain and hit the slopes then driving up there and trying to find a parking space when half of LA comes up for the weekend.
Getting to the local grocery store in Mammoth is no problem you just hop on the bus and ride it until you get to the stop across Vons grocery store and then proceed to walk to the doors and grab a cart and proceed to start shopping. If only if it was that easy.
One doesn’t realize how much stuff you need to have a properly equipped kitchen, not only the pots and pans and the other materials you need to cook but all of the ingredients from spices, flour, sugar, butter and the big stuff like Milk and cereal, meat and all the other things it takes to put together meals until you have to go shopping for them. especially when you have complete stock a kitchen from scratch. Which isn’t a bad thing, except if you only have two hands to carry everything you need. Let me tell you there’s only so much you can carry with two hands, when I walk into a grocery store it’s like utopia, because for what seems like miles and miles there’s so much good stuff that you can buy from fruits and vegetables to bread and other pastries and i can’t forget cookies, which is always a good
thing.
Only having two hands creates many new challenges, which forces a dilemma, like all those 5 for $10 dollar deals on cereal are so tempting but you know that you won’t be able to carry all 17 boxes home with you. So you readjust your scales. Instead getting buying stuff in bulk like 20 pounds flour or a case of mac in cheese aka kraft if you happen to be from canada.
You buy just a couple of pounds flour and one or two boxes at a time. Even though you still buy stuff in small quantities it still adds up pretty quickly, which after getting all the nice discounts with your shiny new vons card. You are now ready to carry your eight bags of groceries home with you. One you get back on to the bus then real fun begins when get off at your stop and now must cross four lanes of traffic.
Which is a very daunting task with only two hands crossing four lanes of traffic all the while praying all the while don’t break, don’t break, please don’t break. After dodging six cars a bus and three truck you finally make it across the street and then you walk towards your apartment and home where you proceed to unload you groceries and then collapse exhausted from carrying them 2.5 miles* (Okay it’s less, but it seems a lot more) and then you wait to do it again all over next time.
Next time.... How many buses does it take to get from Reno NV to Mammoth lakes, Ca.?
Okay for most people grocery shopping isn’t that big of a deal. You hop into to the car, drive to the grocery store and then walk into the store grab a cart and then proceed to fill it with the items on your list. Then check out and possibly get some help putting your groceries in car and then your on your way back to you house to unload it with very little problems* For most people it’s something that they don’t give too much thought too until they need food again and then it’s off to store once again.
This description is good for anybody that has access to a vehicle however if you don’t have a car grocery shopping takes on a entirely different aspect. Like okay how I am going to get my 15 bags of groceries home with only two hands and a backpack? A even better question is how do you even get to the grocery store in the first place. Now if you happen to live in a town with an adequate public transportation network and don’t have a car, it’s a manageable, though tough challenge. Thankfully Mammoth lakes Ca does have a very good bus system. The town does need it because the town gets over 400 inches of snow a year in the winter and most of the time it’s a lot easier to just to get on the bus to head up to the mountain and hit the slopes then driving up there and trying to find a parking space when half of LA comes up for the weekend.
Getting to the local grocery store in Mammoth is no problem you just hop on the bus and ride it until you get to the stop across Vons grocery store and then proceed to walk to the doors and grab a cart and proceed to start shopping. If only if it was that easy.
One doesn’t realize how much stuff you need to have a properly equipped kitchen, not only the pots and pans and the other materials you need to cook but all of the ingredients from spices, flour, sugar, butter and the big stuff like Milk and cereal, meat and all the other things it takes to put together meals until you have to go shopping for them. especially when you have complete stock a kitchen from scratch. Which isn’t a bad thing, except if you only have two hands to carry everything you need. Let me tell you there’s only so much you can carry with two hands, when I walk into a grocery store it’s like utopia, because for what seems like miles and miles there’s so much good stuff that you can buy from fruits and vegetables to bread and other pastries and i can’t forget cookies, which is always a good
thing.
Only having two hands creates many new challenges, which forces a dilemma, like all those 5 for $10 dollar deals on cereal are so tempting but you know that you won’t be able to carry all 17 boxes home with you. So you readjust your scales. Instead getting buying stuff in bulk like 20 pounds flour or a case of mac in cheese aka kraft if you happen to be from canada.
You buy just a couple of pounds flour and one or two boxes at a time. Even though you still buy stuff in small quantities it still adds up pretty quickly, which after getting all the nice discounts with your shiny new vons card. You are now ready to carry your eight bags of groceries home with you. One you get back on to the bus then real fun begins when get off at your stop and now must cross four lanes of traffic.
Which is a very daunting task with only two hands crossing four lanes of traffic all the while praying all the while don’t break, don’t break, please don’t break. After dodging six cars a bus and three truck you finally make it across the street and then you walk towards your apartment and home where you proceed to unload you groceries and then collapse exhausted from carrying them 2.5 miles* (Okay it’s less, but it seems a lot more) and then you wait to do it again all over next time.
Next time.... How many buses does it take to get from Reno NV to Mammoth lakes, Ca.?
posted by UrbanShocker7 @ 3:34 PM
1 Comments:
At 6:20 PM,
Stephanie said…
Aren't you glad you're not Glen and compelled to grocery shop as though you're preparing for a nuclear holocaust?!! Imagine Glen carrying four pallets of strawberries and enough cream to feed a small village for two months across those four lanes of traffic!!! I'm glad you made it home safely with your food and I'll be following your adventures in the Mountain of Mammoths!!
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