Nuts

[pegkerr]

I told Rob "I can't cook dinner unless you go to the grocery store."

Rob and the girls left about, I think about 4:30. Maybe 5:00?

It is 7:30 and they are not back yet. The dinner I'd planned will take a while to cook, too.

Dinner is going to be damn late. This is bad because tomorrow is the girls' first day back at school in two weeks, and I wanted them to get to bed early.

Geez, where the heck are they?

They got home at 8:00. I jettisoned my planned dinner and had tortellini waiting for them when they got home.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

Yikes. I hope they're okay.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Time to break out the spaghetti, and save your planned dish for tomorrow, in the name of not-starving? I hope everything's okay - keep us posted. No cell phone, I take it?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

They got home at 8 p.m., and that was exactly what I did. I had them leave the bags on the porch, and I had tortellini waiting for them.

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Goodness, where were they?

[cheshyre]

And, did they at least bring home what you asked them to go get?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Everything but the Egg Beaters!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

They were at the grocery store all that time. An epic trip.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Doesn't anyone carry a cellphone?

B

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

We have one, and I'm the one who carries it, ordinarily.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Ah.

B

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Did you send him out for betel nut, myrrh and truffles? (And if so, can I have whatever recipe you're using?)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound tasty, actually.

B

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, I assumed it was a recipe for a magic potion—not something you'd voluntarily put in your mouth.

Potions

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Right. Magic potions are supposed to taste bad: eye of newt and all.

B

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I hope they are getting dinner for you.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

At a guess, a bookstore?

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

It took me an hour to get through checkout at the store today. Sunday afternoons are apparently crazy at those stores that start their weekly specials Sunday instead of Friday. I never knew that, but while waiting in line I had time to learn a lot from fellow grocery shoppers.

Perhaps they made an unfortunate choice of store, like I did.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I know this won't make one lick of difference for you, but I thought of you when I trimmed my bread this week.

AND made sure I clean up afterwards.

The only problem is I'm still finding stray stubble in the sink. (Oy, am I gonna hear from Val for that one...)

[dustybinx.livejournal.com]

Your bread has stubble???? What kind of bread is that??

totally off topic, but...

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

"Drowned Lovers" is an amazing song. Do you listen to Kate Rusby often?

Re: totally off topic, but...

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I just downloaded the album from iTunes yesterday! It's my first album of hers. I learned about her from Pandora radio, and I do plan to get more of her stuff.

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see.

When I first started reading this entry I thought it was going to be about malapropisms, because you wrote, "unless you go to the grocery story." Of course, we did get a grocery "story" (sort of--what actually happened?) so that wasn't a complete misdirect. ;)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

*laughs* oops. I'll fix.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Holy smokes! Do you live near a university whose academic term starts tomorrow? I didn't go grocery shopping this afternoon partly because I guessed that the Sunday before classes start it would be overcrowded and understaffed, just like it was on Thanksgiving Monday afternoon and for the same reasons.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

My dear, have you gone mad?

Sending someone else to grocery store late in afternoon for something one needs to make for dinner = Iffy.
Picky eater + grocery store = Dangerous.
Child (or teen) + grocery store = Extremely dangerous.
Your combination = I am amazed the universe didn't implode.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I guess I'm a woman who lives dangerously.

Actually, there was some benefit in taking the girls alone. Presumably, they put stuff in the cart they are actually willing to eat. But for the most part, they did stick to the list. The very long list.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. In deciding whether to take the kid(s), one always has to weigh the increased time and money spent against the possibility of not having to listen to "There's nothing to eat" constantly until the next grocery run.

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

Now you've got me confused. What does a child picking out food at the grocery store have to do with whether or not one has to listen to "there's nothing to eat" while said food is in the fridge and/or cupboard?

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether I phrased it confusingly or you're asking why a parent would have to listen to such complaints or you're asking how picking out the food keeps the kid from making such complaints.

If the first or the last, what I meant was that if the kid picks out the food, the kid's complaints about there being nothing to eat can more easily be ignored. If the second, well, FSV of "have to," I guess!

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

The latter -- and as to the former, while YM may V, I find the complaints no easier nor more difficult to listen to, either way.