Grocery Shopping (For Real)

Please don't tell Mrs. Muller, but I like to go grocery shopping with my daughter. For real.   If she finds out she'll insist I go all time.  I believe I'd have to turn in my man card then.  Sometimes it's difficult being a man.

When my daughter and I go shopping we always have a great time.  We break out our list (and like a real man, I never deviate from the list), wander up and down the isles shopping for bargains, comparing prices, trying to figure if we should go with the super sized item or if we can stay with the regular size, look at the lobster tank, and other shopping related things like that.  Sometimes we have minor disagreements, like when she cost me an extra $1.20 for yogurt because, "Yoplait is creamier!"  Whatever.  Still, we had a great time.

Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead 2.  Great movie!

On this last trip to the grocery store, I noticed a Universal Studios advertisement for Halloween Horror Nights on the door.  If you're not familiar with Halloween Horror Nights it's a late night Halloween party in the park where the main attractions are haunted houses and people dressed up in costumes trying to scare you.  Also, you hear Oingo Boingo's It's a Dead Man's Party just about everywhere.  I've been once and it was a hoot.  This guy with a chainsaw kept running after Mrs. Muller, making her scream like a lunatic.  That alone was worth the price of admission.

Anyway, the event is usually themed, sometimes after iconic horror movie miscreants,  and I wanted to see what this year's theme might be.  I walked up to the door, triggered the door's magical eye, and the door opened, hiding the ad behind another ad that was on a stationary wall of glass.  I stepped back, allowing the door to close, and tried to see this year's theme without triggering the automatic doors.  Naturally, I couldn't see it, so I stepped up to it again, tripping the door's magic eye, hiding the poster from view again.  I wasn't sure if I was on Candid Camera or not, but my daughter sure got the giggles.

The Dude!

As I stood there trying to riddle out a way to see the poster, a customer and her groceries were helped out the same door by a grocery store employee, hiding the ad once more, and leaving me bent over and my daughter giggling.  Now, I don't care much if people think I'm a dork, but my son does...and he works at the grocery store where this episode was taking place.  To give you an example, my son told me that I should not use the word "dude".  It's uncool.   I told him, "Dude, I don't really care what your friends might think of my use of the word 'dude.'"

"Dude."

Since he worked at that particular store I did think it better to stop trying and save him from the humiliation of my dorkiness.  It killed me, though.  I can't understand why they would put that ad on a door where no one would be able to read it.  Of course my daughter pointed out that each register had the same ad on it.  The theme is, "Fear Itself".  Indeed.

Save for a bit of dorkiness, we had a wonderful time grocery shopping once again.  I guess I'll do some more shopping in the future for Mrs. Muller, as long as Lili (that's my daughter's nickname) comes along.  I am going to talk to her about the yogurt thing, though.  I'm not sure creamier yogurt should cost a buck twenty more.  But, then again, she's worth it, so maybe I'll just over look it...one more time.