I think I may be 'stuck-up'...but I am okay with that

Whenever my mom comes to visit she makes me feel guilty because I shop at Vons instead of Food For Less. She says I am just wasting my money when I could get the same food for much less. (Ah…hence the name!)

However, here is my story for NOT going to Food For Less….and it has to do with baby daddy’s, Mexican kids with mullets, lack of family planning, people who think that wearing pajamas and slippers in public is appropriate and mentally challenged workers. I not only get depressed but sometimes REALLY mad!

Here’s my story:

Before I purchased my condo I used to live in paradise. It was a tiny little condo in a very good neighborhood (almost Oprah’s neighbor….I am sure she would have come over to borrow a cup of sugar if I had stayed a little longer). It had a bird aviary, a swimming pool and a beautiful garden with little paths and water falls. It was beautiful and peaceful and I never heard any body bump their music in the middle of the night or dare to have a junked out car. I drank my Starbucks coffee amongst the ‘poodle puffer’ crowd (people who owned dogs with a better hair cut and style than mine). All this ‘well to-do-ness’ was fabulous. I once made a joke to a friend (I had not seen for a while) exclaiming that I lived amongst my ‘people’ in this part of town and then he asked if I was a maid…whatever!!

I started grocery shopping at Vons because it was the nearest grocery store to me, and so when I moved into a new city, 45 minutes north of paradise, I continued to shop at the same store - again because of proximity and familiarity.

When I go to Food For Less it never fails that I see women with ‘waaay’ to many kids (why I get bothered by this…I am not sure), men with hairy armpits and wife beaters getting too close to me in the isles, little Mexican boys with mullet haircuts or rat tails (obviously the parents have seen too many Kung-Fu movies and are trying to make the kid into a Manchu warrior….this is only a theory, I don‘t have any proof that this is true). I try not to notice, but they are always there!! I know this makes me sound stuck-up, but sometimes their life choices are really depressing to see.

But wait, there is more..

In my particular Food For Less, I not only get the afore mentioned views, but add in smelly looking girls (and sometimes men) wearing what I can only assume are their ‘good’ pajamas and slippers in public. REALLY! How lazy do you have to be to not (at the very least) slap on some sweat pants! WTF!! REALLY PEOPLE!!!

You see what I mean…..!

Then there is this really big girl/woman who works there. For some reason I just want to hug her and feed her. When she sweeps the floor around the store, she could give a rip if she runs anybody over or not. (That is actually one of the pluses about this store…too funny!). Once, I ran into her a couple of times durng my shopping spree and both times I had to scoot over because she was coming and NOT….and I mean NOT going to stop just because I was in her way. Well, the good side of this is that at least she has a job.

So, you see, I don’t mind paying a little extra because going grocery shopping should not leave me depressed or completely mad at humanity. If people would only come to be for advice before they screwed up their lives and did what I told them to do…..they (and I) would be so much happier.

Okay, I guess I do feel a little bad about being stuck-up….but only a little.