Tuesday, January 13, 2009

*Warning: Grocery Shopping with Tweens is Hazardous to your Health

I used to not embarrass easily at all. That was until Friday when I made the mistake of letting Rebecca and her two overnight guests go into HEB (Texas Grocery Store Chain) with me. Here is a list of things I was absolutely mortified of them doing.

1.They giggled over guacamole calling it booger dip.....then tracked down a high school boy working there and asked him to price check the booger dip. The only reason I discovered this was when he tracked me down in the store to quote me the price of guacamole and I gave him this completely blank look, and the girls started giggling like crazy.

2. They thought it would be fun to shake up some of the 2 liter bottles of soda and "surprise" people who bought it. I explained to the heathens that it was a waste of time because by the time anyone took it home it would be back to normal again.

3. They discussed at length picking up queso and bean dip and then giggled endlessly of how bad the living room where they are sleeping will smell when all three of them have eaten bean dip.

4. At the checkout lane they asked for buddy bucks (an incentive for younger children) and then hurried over to the machine to get the stickers that go with said bucks.

Needless to say the girls couldn't have been happier just giggling away and blissfully unaware that my face looks like a tomato. On the plus side in my hurry to get out of HEB I forgot to buy the chips to go with the bean dip and queso....so no smelly living room.

I am soooooo shopping alone next time.

5 comments:

therextras said...

Ya gotta admit, taking them along made for a really good post story - ?

Barbara

Lazy Housewife said...

LOL I get embarrassed easily so I'm sure I'd have been mortified. Teens/tweens find the silliest things to be hilarious.

On The Verge said...

You mean it gets worse? Great! I always go alone. Looks like I will continue that.

Heidi Ashworth said...

Everyone with kids that age (ever) understand. Anyone who haven't earned the right to judge. Really. Having tweens and teens is like hazing.

Nessa said...

I agree 100% with pp, it is like hazing. We live in a really small town, so you always run into someone you know while shopping. It sure makes shopping interesting!