Nature Friday host LLB Gang and Feline Friday host Comedy Plus
Jul9, 2010
Feline Friday Flashback
I've fallen and can't get up.... July 29, 2010
Mom came in the house squealing (what is it with the squealing),
Madi you've got mail but then she showed me this cutesy card...who
do they think they are kidding? I, Madi, did not just fall off the turnip
truck. That is not mail that is an invitation to torture....
Nope not me I refused to 'schedule my on torture'....so
being the kind Mom that she is Mom did it for me.....
Thanks Mom, remind me to Paw it Forward for you soon.
Nature Friday July 2022
Our Hostess with the mostest
Grocery Store ....Story July 21, 2022
A wee bit of back ground
I was fortunate to have, Miss Kilby for, four years of home economics High School. My freshman year was her first year of teaching. I learned so much from her from budgeting, planning, cooking, shopping and sewing. My senior project was my Prom Gown. Fifty-four years later, I have a spread sheet with grocery list (in order of the store arrangement) on one side and seven day menu on the back.
This being said I'll start my story:
The week of July 21, I had my 7 day menu with me. I'm usually at Harris Teeter at 7:15 am on Thursdays which is senior citizen day with a discount on groceries.
Salmon steaks were on my menu but they had not put out any of the seafood. So I regrouped changing to Brats and potato salad, which (makes enough for 2 meals. The recipe for sauerkraut calls for canned sauerkraut. I add several extra ingredients to the kraut.
When I got to the canned vegetable aisle, the HT sauerkraut was on sale for $1.00 a can. As luck would have it, there were two cans remaining on the top shelf in the very far back. Totally out of my arm reach. I waited a few minutes to see if some one taller than 5'3" came down the aisle, no such luck. I went to the Customer service desk. The lady (my height) went to get a step stool to get it for me. I went back to my cart to wait. LO and BEHOLD (I KID YOU NOT) a very tall young man (my head came to his elbow) was walking toward me with his cart. I blinked my eyes to be sure he was not a tall mirage. He was real. I asked him if he could possibly reach something for me? He said of course. I thanked him profusely. The lady came down the aisle with the stool, I told her about the tall shopper. She was as shocked as I was...said now that was amazing.
While unloading the groceries at home, I realize I had forgotten heart of palms for that Chicken and white bean salad we like in hot weather. Thankfully HT is 1 minute from the house. As was walking toward the store, I saw a Visa charge card in the parking lot. I picked it up to take to customer service. (again) Lo and Behold the man who lost it was at the customer service counter asking if anyone had found it. There I was with his card. He was elated to have it back thanked me and "said you saved me a lot of grief. I was just going home to cancel it".
Same Customer service lady was there. After the man left, she said you have just 'paid forward' the good deed of the tall guy did for you with a good deed finding that card. I rarely have to return to the store after my weekly shopping. This was one of those meant to be there at that particular moment, good timing situations.
THE END
we agree, you paid the good deed forwards... that was absolutely great!!!
ReplyDeleteYour Home Economics lessons appear to have been much more thorough and effective than any I endured at school!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail.
That was a very good pay it forward.
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteWhat an excellent FFF!!! Thank you for sharing that story of uplift. YAM xx
You absolutely did pay it forward! Love the black-eyed Susans and Shasta Daisy!
ReplyDeletePay it forward indeed
ReplyDeleteHi Madi, love you still. Gorgeous flowers, and you have nailed all three things today in one post. The story is the kind I love to read, and i love to pay forward and to have someone pay forward to me. the blessing was that it was you that found the card and not someone who would have gone on a spending spree. good job on post and card. agree with Gails comment. I learned nothing in Home Ec classes that ever helped me. I can't cook, follow a recipe, sew anything at all, and no one taught me my money managment skills, I was born with that. I don't have a spread sheet but i do shop by list and I do write the items down in the order I walk the store...
ReplyDeleteYour experience at the grocery store shows you that sometimes you are in the right place at the right time. Lossing a card these days is a nightmare! Hope life is good and you are relaxing! Lee and Phod who are enjoying a few days of so called vacation!
ReplyDeleteI've never known a kitty that liked going to the vet. I loved that exchange.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful nature shots. Wow.
I love your story and sometimes you forget something for a reason and now you know why you forgot that salad ingredient. Beautiful.
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Have a purrfect Feline Friday and weekend. Big hug for a happy weekend. ♥
Cecilia, you and I have a lot in common. I also have an Excel spread sheet for my grocery list that is laid out in the order of the store. I have my list pre-loaded with all the things we use on a daily basis (milk, fruit, dairy, etc.) and then modify it for each week. I also save the week's list to the cloud so if I ever forget my printed list, I can still access it from my phone. At 5'2" tall I have had to ask many taller people to reach the items on the top shelf for me, too. Why is it that most of what I buy seems to be on the top of the shelf? LOL! On occasion I have been asked by older shoppers, using one of those electric carts, to help them get a few things that were out of their reach too. As for Home Economics class, I never took one because I was raised by a home ec teacher! I love the Madi flash back and those pretty flowers, too.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Cindy
Angel Madi was right, that fan mail is never appreciated. That was quite the grocery shopping story, pretty amazing. The flowers are very pretty too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful "Pay It Forward" FFF C!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers for NF...and the pups know what Angel Madi means with "What's with the squealing" BOL!
Ah, what a great story. Thank you for sharing. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat is an AMAAAAAZZZZIIIIING grocery store story! I love it!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam
Sounds like you had an excellent teacher. I took Home ec, but we never learned budgeting. Great story of paying it forward. XO
ReplyDeleteWhat a great paying it forward story!
ReplyDeleteThat's like being in the middle of summer vacation and seeing a back to school flyer.
ReplyDeleteI need you to get my shopping for FOOD organized. I have a sort of kinda list but we are not once a week shoppers. We or SSNS goes to Publix almost every day. Publix is right across the street from us. Often we go to pick up what's for dinner the afternoon of the same day. Nope, I don't like this method but it has become a not so good habit. When we were first married I did weekly planned meals for dinner like my Mom but that didn't last long. I took home ec but the teacher did not know what to do with me, I wasn't much interested in that class. Your story was all about kindness and it was very nice to read this morning.
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