Random Impertinent Question
I hate supermarket shopping, yet sometimes have to enter the Kingdom of hell to retrieve provisions that the hotel does not procure for me.
It is an experience so horrible to me that Saturday I spent the entire day watching DVD's and ordering room service delaying the inevitable.
Venturing out today I had a list in my head of items, one very important for a female. So flustered was I that I remembered all the items except for the one very important one.
Made worse for any shopping experience is the presence of children, ducking and sidestepping with the trolley. I just want to ask one question of parents:
Why do you take children to a high-end supermarket?
If you are rich enough to pay $NZ7 for a bloody lettuce, you are rich enough to pay for childcare.
It is an experience so horrible to me that Saturday I spent the entire day watching DVD's and ordering room service delaying the inevitable.
Venturing out today I had a list in my head of items, one very important for a female. So flustered was I that I remembered all the items except for the one very important one.
Made worse for any shopping experience is the presence of children, ducking and sidestepping with the trolley. I just want to ask one question of parents:
Why do you take children to a high-end supermarket?
If you are rich enough to pay $NZ7 for a bloody lettuce, you are rich enough to pay for childcare.
posted by Cactus Kate at 7:17 PM
25 Comments:
Kate - write a list. It's the only way to shop at the supermarket.
I had a list. It was written in my head.
Whenever I have a physical list I just lose it anyway.
Why?
Some people like spending time with their children. Mad, I know. Some people appreciate whatever time they can spend with their kids.
I don't have kids and even I grasp that. Not everyone has kids just to dump them in childcare 24/7.
I seen someone with a list on their iPhone once, it even had little check boxes that were electronically checked off.
I prefer CK's way.
Lists are for anal retentive types and folk that don't have the brains to remember anything
10.41pm - shopping is not for recreation.
Does the supermarket provide home delivery? Order on the Internet and get the goods delivered to your door.
I hate Hate HATE supermarket shopping yet it is something I have to do on a weekly basis (if not more). In our family we call them stupormarkets and find it is best to render yourself into a stupor (complete with list rotating in your head) and that way you can ignore the kids, the trolleys and the people who have clearly never found the soap aisle.
"Venturing out today I had a list in my head of items, one very important for a female"
why dont you just buy your chick flicks on amazon?
Because my twins are immaculately behaved, ridiculously cute, and everybody loves them wherever they go. I like showing them off.
I go earlier in the day - I suspect the sort of people who have free range kids are the same people too disorganised to get out of the house before 9.
"Why do you take children to a high-end supermarket?"
OPC - (other people's children) are a great contraceptive so perhaps its a green plot to reduce population growth.
Take your kids to the supermarket to put other people off having any of their own :)
CK, I don't think you can fully understand the dynamics and responsibilities within families. Raising children is not just about recreational activities and having fun.
Children need to be fully involved in all aspects of the family's activities. Shopping is an integral part of this. How else can I as a parent discharge my responsibility to mentally and emotionally scar my children? ;)
Paranormal
Paranormal
Children ENJOY shopping. I've seen the little buggers whinge and cry until Mummy sticks chocolate bars in the basket.
I cannot see an upside to taking children shopping. Wouldn't you get it done in half the time if you left offspring at HOME.
And we are not talking Pak n Save here with the lovely big aisles such that white and brown trash can roam freely with their credits for welfare for families. Supermarkets over here are the size of the dairy counter, there simply is not room for children.
As I said, the lettuce is $NZ7, it is the supermarket equivalent of fine dining - leave you children with the maid or the grandparents.
I'm sorry if my comment gave the wrong impression. In all caring families, the mental and emotional scarring is generally a two way thing...
Paranormal
I take my kids to the Supermarket for fun otherwise the exercise is utterly dreary.
The looks I get when one of them has a tantrum are absolutely priceless.
I also get them to put random small items into other peoples trolleys (generally those who have given me the funny looks) which is equally amusing.
Sounds like you FAILED at your shopping and are looking to blame some helpless wee bairns. Harden up lass.
Gee you are very prickly, can anyone get near you at all or do those spensive lettuces just get get stuck on your spines.
internet shopping and have it delivered for $18
Yawn....maybe in NZ but the place I shop at don't do internet delivery.
Screaming misbehaving brats on Airplanes = okay ?
Screaming misbehaving brats in Supermarkets = not okay
I had a flatmate who too was freaked out by supermarkets. However his excuse was that he was an alcohol/drug addict with many years of abuse which resulted in mental illness.
So what is your excuse?
Who needs an excuse?
New Zealand supermarkets are spacious and luxurious (well Foodtown at least) compared with overseas ones.
Then move back to NZ to enjoy your spacious and luxurious supermarket. We didn't ask you to stay here in HK.
12.53pm
Having read my statcounter there are only 2 readers today in Hong Kong. One was my Blackberry address and the other was the home IP address.
That's a comments FAIL.
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