Electica wrote about the first time she bought a car.
This reminded me of a first for me when I was quite old.
I was 80 years old the first time bought groceries. Yes, I went with the Micro manager for years as the cart pusher, but I never actually shopped and bought the groceries.
No mother of a farm boy was going to send her son to town to get groceries . So I didn't buy groceries while I lived at home. At the time I was growing up we did not buy very many groceries as we prepared our own food. We had all our own meat from the farm. Our vegetables were limited by the time we could store them.
When I left home to go to school, I boarded so I did not have to buy groceries. One land lady I had would phone her order into the store and I would pick it up for her.
Then when I went to the Arctic we were given rations. In other words we were given enough food to last us a year. These rations were prepared for someone who didn't have a store that they could buy groceries from. I remember my rations came in two huge boxes that would fill the back of a pick up truck.
So recently it was taking the Micro Manger a long time and much effort to buy groceries. One day I finally said , "You're not buying anymore groceries. "
And that's it. I bought all the groceries from then on. The Micro Manager makes a list and I shop.
How do I like buying groceries? It's great. It was a learning experience that was good for me.
