Sunday parking is a mystery to me, especially on a day when there is a “Big Game” like today. The parking lot at the Acme was at a premium, and I had gone there as I suspected the lots at ShopRite and Wegman’s would be even more packed. Grocery stores, apparently, are the same everywhere, and know no peace on a triple-threat like today/Sunday. Add to the new popular grocery shopping day that it is the first of the month when food aid stipends are delivered, and a “Big Game,” and chaos is a guarantee.
Still, I used a cartlet (one of those new-fangled smaller two-tiered styles for grocery runs larger than a hand basket but smaller than a big cart), and managed to buy the week’s food without touching a pulled pork container or a nacho chip.
Still, I couldn’t help wondering about why the parking lot had so many cars. It seems to me that, if one person or family is entertaining several people for the game, only they would shop, and those being entertained would not need to go to the store to buy food, so the lot should be less crowded, but the pulled pork and chips would run out faster.
If it were the holiday season, I could understand crowded parking lots, because every single person seems to need to buy stuff for a bunch of other people, so with one person to a vehicle, it gets a bit packed in that asphalt and gridded wasteland.
Anyway, there were no lines at the registers and, unlike Wegman’s, I could have gone to self checkout and paid cash.
Don’t get me started on that new pet peeve. Credit cards only at self-checkout? If I have dollar bills to feed into a slot, I’ll use them, thank you.
So I didn’t buy anything for any big game, because I am not inclined to watch. Besides, I went to the big box club on Friday and bought “Big Game” food for the office for the second time in a month (without buying three or four things I could’ve gotten because it screws around with the accounting department when I try to itemize the receipt on the corporate expense report), and since I don’t work Sundays, I never get to eat what I bought.
But the parking lot had spaces then.
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