I am 100% guilty of thumbing through my coupons and lists as I shop because I have this awful problem… I can study the ad, write down what I want to buy, go through the process of hunting down the coupons, even type it all out to share with others but the second I walk into the store, I forget what I came for!
So one day last week, this is what I was doing. I was perusing the coffee/tea aisle after loading up on all those cans of Maxwell House coffee, whilst driving the cart with my elbows, and flipping through coupons all at the same time. I don’t drive totally blind; I glance up from time to time to ensure I am not going to crash into some body, or display.
I heard the snicker behind me before I felt the impact:
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In fact, for a split second before I crashed (hard) into the post, I knew I was going to but I just couldn’t stop, like some sort of dork magnetism was pulling me and I was powerless to stop it. A guy behind me obviously saw where I was headed before I knew. You know how ‘they’ say that you see your whole life flash before your eyes right before you die? Yeah, it happens with shopping carts and support poles too!
I hit the pole (hard).
It was a little piece of excitement on an otherwise dull day. I got to spend the rest of my shopping trip feeling stunned, embarrassed, and goofy all at the same time. Nothing beats breaking out into the giggles for no good reason, having someone ask, and getting to (legitimately) say, “Oh, nothing. I just crashed into this pole earlier.”
*Not actual photo. Simulation. No shopping carts, Meijer employees or boxes of tea were injured during the re-creation of this accident.
