When they ask you, my gentle readers, when did you first notice that Ally Bean was beginning to fray around the edges, please point them to this.
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OBSERVATION #1 {inside the grocery store}
Our store is having what I’ll call a re-shelving extravaganza in the middle of the store. I don’t know why they’re re-setting the store, but many items that were somewhere on a shelf, are now somewhere else, often many aisles away.
I couldn’t find the crystalized ginger which was part of the healthy food department, so I asked an employee where it might be now.
Without a hint of irony the employee said: “It’s in aisle 7, under the sign that says Meat Snacks.”
And so there it was, by the beef jerky. 🤨
OBSERVATION #2 {in the grocery store parking lot}
Leaving the store walking to my car, I noticed a bumper sticker on a newish SUV with a license plate that said it was from this county. The vehicle appeared to have kid stuff in the back seat.
I mention the possible kid angle because the bumper sticker was, to my way of thinking, a bit coarse for a family vehicle around here in this God-fearing politically conservative community. I wasn’t clutching my pearls because of it, but I was surprised.
In large letters visible from far away the bumper sticker said: BERNIE F*ck This Sh!t. [I’ve modified the message because this is still a PG-13 blog, but you get the gist of what it said.]
And so there it was, on a vehicle parked next to the cart corral for all to see. 🙁
Observation #3 {driving home from the grocery store}
Driving home, slowing down to make a righthand turn at the light, I noticed that on the large community calendar electronic sign in front of the fire station there were three words that seemed out-of-place.
While we live in an upscale subdivision, most of this township and county are less well-off and rural; hence the conservative MAGA political nature of things around here. Thus when I saw what I saw I was bemused, but slightly baffled.
Not because of anything rude, but because I cannot fathom why the community calendar electronic sign in front of the fire station said: “Et tu, Miami?”
And so there it was, a classic Latin phrase made famous by Shakespeare + a reference to the North American Indian Algonquian people. 🤔
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So, things making sense where you are? Or are things slightly off-kilter everywhere you look?
SO I AM SHOPPING IN Kroger at a particularly busy time of day on a winter’s day when the weather is shifting from snow to rain. Dude, a 40-something man with graying hair and expensive eyeglasses, is in my way.
