Shopping!
I did a little shopping this weekend. No big deal, right? Well...I found that after I came home from OJE in 1997, that I had taken things for granted. The first time I went back into a Sam's Club, it felt like a religious experience. Since that time, the feeling wore off a bit - especially after the kids came along. Hard to wax poetic about free market choices when your 4 year old is throwing a cereal box at your 2 year old...
However, since I came back from OEF in mid '05 I got that old joy back. 14 months of DFAC creations and MREs might inspire it... Especially going to a place like Trader Joe's.
I consider them the polar opposite of an old Soviet State store (I was in Moscow and St. Petersburg - then Leningrad - in 1984 for a brief spell). Colorful stores full of great merchandise with a cheerful and helpful staff.
Naturally, the missus thinks I am bats - but in a good way. If I do the shopping and like it (for whatever mad reason) she doesn't mind.
posted by LTC John at 6:27 PM
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I love, love, LOVE Trader Joe's. When I lived in Phoenix, I'd stop several times a week on the way home from work. Now I live 110 miles southeast of Tucson, and the closest TJ's is in Tucson. I don't care. I go there every two weeks around pay day and stock up on loads and loads of stuff you can't get at the Safeway here. It's an experience going in there, like you say the staff is great. And so is all the merchandise. They even have freezer bags so I can get all the stuff home safely in the heat of summer.
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