Thing That Annoys Me Today: Potatoes
The Boy and I went food shopping Tuesday. Among other things, we picked up a 15lb bag of potatoes. We like potatoes.
Unfortunately, when we went to make dinner, we found that most of them were growing eyes, and some were green. The Boy called the store up and they said sure, bring 'em back with the receipt, we'll exchange 'em.
It's Saturday now. I haven't done it yet. I just really don't want to lug 15lbs of potatoes to the bus stop, pay for a day pass, carry them on the bus, lug them into the store, return them, and then do it all in reverse. I've felt crappy all week, and bus fare is more than the potatoes cost! Which is why I didn't do it Wednesday or Thursday. Right now I could use The Boy's bus pass, but I still have to lug a big bag of potatoes around for an hour at the least. And obviously, that makes it difficult to try and fold in any other errands (like getting a monitor cord so I can use the lovely monitor biomekanic so kindly passed down to me -- thank you! -- or picking up meat at a different store that sells non-factory-farm stuff).
It's annoying. I know it's stupid and ridiculously minor in the scheme of things, and if I never get the potatoes back to the store, we're out $2.85 and a few more days without any potatoes in the house. But it's just =annoying=. They put out potatoes that weren't good in bags that don't give you a clear view of the contents, and I have to pay a silly amount of time and money (relative to the value of the potatoes) to deal with it. They don't have to do anything. It seems like there should be a better way.
And why can't there be a place that I can get a monitor cord closer to the store? I don't want to spend an extra hour sitting around waiting for yet another bus. With my potatoes.
Meh.
This has been your futile bitching interlude for the evening.
Unfortunately, when we went to make dinner, we found that most of them were growing eyes, and some were green. The Boy called the store up and they said sure, bring 'em back with the receipt, we'll exchange 'em.
It's Saturday now. I haven't done it yet. I just really don't want to lug 15lbs of potatoes to the bus stop, pay for a day pass, carry them on the bus, lug them into the store, return them, and then do it all in reverse. I've felt crappy all week, and bus fare is more than the potatoes cost! Which is why I didn't do it Wednesday or Thursday. Right now I could use The Boy's bus pass, but I still have to lug a big bag of potatoes around for an hour at the least. And obviously, that makes it difficult to try and fold in any other errands (like getting a monitor cord so I can use the lovely monitor biomekanic so kindly passed down to me -- thank you! -- or picking up meat at a different store that sells non-factory-farm stuff).
It's annoying. I know it's stupid and ridiculously minor in the scheme of things, and if I never get the potatoes back to the store, we're out $2.85 and a few more days without any potatoes in the house. But it's just =annoying=. They put out potatoes that weren't good in bags that don't give you a clear view of the contents, and I have to pay a silly amount of time and money (relative to the value of the potatoes) to deal with it. They don't have to do anything. It seems like there should be a better way.
And why can't there be a place that I can get a monitor cord closer to the store? I don't want to spend an extra hour sitting around waiting for yet another bus. With my potatoes.
Meh.
This has been your futile bitching interlude for the evening.