Aisle check out yr cart
Look what I found! I love abandoned shopping lists –they save me the trouble of openly ogling people’s grocery carts.
- I have several techniques for cart ogling. There’s the Pretend to Rearrange My Items, which lets me walk around the cart and lean over for a better look at what’s in your cart — all that lunch meat and just one bag of carrots? You call that a balanced diet? There’s the Very Interesting Edition of the Enquirer This Week while I’m eyeing those two large boxes of prunes in your cart — constipated, poor dear.
Here are my two latest finds. I love the color coding of this one: grocery items in blue ink, produce in green ink, action steps in red ink. Pure organizational poetry.
Notice that the shopper is buying two of everything: napkins, cups, plates, two (Big) boxes of Cheer, cereals, milks and creams. Possibly for Mary. Mary doesn’t get any grapes, bananas or berries. Or cheese. Hard cheese, for you, Mary.
And the yellow list. Plug covers, stair locks, vitamins, daycare, key for me, potty seat(?). Get out the garter belt and lube martinis and rock music – it’s a weekend away while grandma’s got the kids. Listen, Grammy, between a potty training child and some off-leash dogs, you’ll have your hands full. I hope that “dead bolt entry” goes smoothly at least. And I got my fingers crossed on that potty seat decision — it’s a tough one!
If you’re addicted to shopping lists, there are more at Shopping List compendium, a collection of annotated lists from somewhere in southern England.
UPDATE, 8 Jan. 2007: TA plays its part in the great national conversation about cart-ogling. Or is that oogling?
Hilarious! I always marvel at people who buy one individually wrapped roll of toilet paper. Like, can you not afford a four-pack, or maybe you only need to go a little? Check out this site for more peeping into the personal lives of strangers: http://www.foundmagazine.com/
I know! I think “maybe you work outside the house and go there?” I loved that “found magazine” link. Sweet Cheeks was totally capitivated. I want to send my lists to them.
thinking of putting together a lunch for tomorrow but can’t find your email address…
Lesley told me about it! I’m excited about flamin poultry! Cee ElCee and I are coming together — cuz we’re so green and all carpooly that’s why.
BWAH!
I think that second list was more of a to-do than a to-buy. And it really looks like something Nanny Jo Frost would send them out to do. Especially the stair lock and dead-bolt entry part. Lock those naughty rugrats DOWN!
Why would they be thinking about buying a potty seat? Do they already have one but it broke? Are they contemplating whether or not to potty train their kid? Seems like an obvious answer to me…but whatev… Love this post — classic!
For the first list I think it was probably originally on the counter to the left of something that was for Mary, and also had a note on it to call Lisa, but later became a grocery list.
On the second list it’s not “dead bolt - try”, it’s “dead bolt entry”, and it just looks like a mother preparing a house for a child to me.
I’m pretty sure it says deadbolt entry. I got here from passiveaggressivenotes
By popular demand — and by that I mean three different people writing to me — and on close examination, I believe you all are correct that “dead bolt —try” is “dead bolt entry”