An Early Start To Our Saturday.

... and we weren't alone.

The best plans usually get formed when it's still dark outside and ours wasn't any different. A light bulb and mosquito netting was needed and Grosspetersdorf was the place to go.

That's the thing with a two item shopping trip, it feels too bare, almost wasteful not to shop for more and thus we decided to go to one of the local supermarkets. Again to get one or two items but those sneaky supermarket folks put temptations in every aisle, a case of see evil, smell evil and buy evil...Evil equals cakes, ice creams and chips.

Well, I forgot how busy a Saturday morning can be. There were so many folk shopping with the added interlude of having conversations with friends, neigbhours, family or acquaintances as is normal in a small town.

The dynamics of grocery shopping are fun to watch. There was an elderly couple ( no, not us but we are quite the same ) debating over each item put into the basket which the man was carrying. A harassed mother doing the supermarket sprint, barely avoiding nudging the amblers, and with a sure grip finding each item, nothing superfluous, everything needed.

At times Bob and I would get the side glance...firstly at our language spoken ( German and English ) and secondly at our debates over which evil to put into the basket. Somehow Bob and I have a habit of reverting to childish behaviour and neither one of us will budge an inch:

" If you buy those Doppelkeks than I am buying a bag of chips. "

Shopping for groceries together can be a daring experiment, a fun excursion and definitely an adventure...

Biggi