Most normal husbands don’t like to shop, especially for groceries. But I am not a normal husband.
(Some of you are rolling your eyes. You know who you are. Please stop — I’d hate for you to injure yourself, or cause you to lose a contact.)
For some reason, I get a fair amount of joy out of being the provider for our family; being the one who (quite literally, sometimes) ‘brings home the bacon’. As a salaried employee with direct deposit of my pay, I sometimes feel there isn’t much of a connection between my work and meeting the needs of my family. Grocery shopping is my chance to be an active part of meeting those needs.
I especially like getting bargains on meat. So when the local WinCo reduces the price on meat with a sell-by date of tomorrow, I’m standing near the cart, ready to snap it up. Tonight I found five such bargains.
The price-reducing man (he probably has a fancy title, like ‘butcher’) loves to help people find bargains. He will ask what you are looking for, and he’ll prioritize his price-reducing to give you what you’re wanting. Last year, they used to allow him to reduce it to 50% of the original price, but now the management keeps him to a strict 30% reduction.
Stew meat, a little roast, and some steaks for Daniel’s upcoming birthday …
Of course, another reason I like grocery shopping is that I can add all kinds of contraband items to the cart. Little Debbie snack cakes, pop tarts, even the occasional carton of full-fat ice cream finds its way home when I help do the shopping.
“How could that have gotten into my cart?” I exclaim, in surprise.
I think I have them all fooled.
Project 365, Day 101
Tim
Congratulations on your finds! And don’t worry: they’re fooled for sure. “Normal” husbands are known to search out contraband when they grocery-shop, and since you’re not a normal husband, they’d never suspect you of that!
Haha…HEY! All this time you fooled us all….hmph! Well now you’ve given away your secret! MWAHAHA!
Way to go – bargain hunter extraordinaire!