TV Dinners and TANG!

I love Fred Meyer. It has everything! Everything that i need, and everything that i didn't know i needed until i see it. I have lived in Issaquah the last 4.5 years. I go to Fred Meyer weekly. If i have no reason to go, i will just go and wander around. I mainly love to go late at night. Around 10:30 is my favorite. There are some INTERESTING people that come out at night in Issaquah.

This last Saturday, i had to waitress at Rooters. I worked from 10am to 9:30pm. It was a long day, but not busy so i got some good reading done! After i got off, i drove home to Issaquah and pulled into my parking space. Just sat there a moment and then started the car back up and drove to Fred Meyer. I needed to wind down for a little bit. And Fred Meyer relaxes me. My home does not.

I get to Fred Meyer and find a parking spot, get out of the car, grab my purse and then close the door. Then, i realize that i left my keys on the passenger seat. (why i put them there i don't know) So i open the door and reach in to grab the keys and somehow lose my balance and do a face-plant into my cup holder. OUCH! Stupid Keys! I rub my head as i enter Fred's Kingdom (as i like to call it).

I wandered around for about 40 minutes and then decided to head out. Isn't it strange that if you are at a store late at night, everyone seems to need to check out at the same time? How is it at 10:45 at night, there were 3 lanes open and ALL of them had long lines. Ugh! I chose the one closest to the door that i was going to exit out of(also the shortest line). There were two people in front of me. As the lady in front is paying, another lady gets in line behind me. She stands so close to me i can feel her breathing on my neck. CREEPY! ANNOYING! GET OUT OF MY BUBBLE! (all that i was screamiing in my head as i stayed facing forward) I had only used a hand basket for my things so i placed it on the conveyer belt without unloading it. The lady in front of me starts to unload her cart on the converyer belt, and that is when i notice what she is buying. I counted...37 tv dinners. And a container of Tang.

I'm not against TV dinners. I just choose not to put that stuff in my body. Maybe they taste good to some people. The few i have tried in my lifetime have tasted like cardboard. Anyways, i am going to assume that they were on sale, and the lady buying them was a Fred Meyer employee so adding a discount, they must have been pretty cheap. Good for her. Bad for her body.

As i'm watching this lady get checked out with her 37 tv dinners, the weirdo behind me starts to put her things up on the conveyer belt. There was not really a lot of room up there, but she MADE room. She put as much stiff on there as she could and then grabbed it with her palms and "pushed" it all forward so that it scruntched everyone elses stuff up into each other. She must have been in a hurry....i guess. Cause...who does that???? Then, after she cleared some room for her things, she bent over her shopping cart and started to toss things up on the belt. She threw a loaf of bread at the the conveyer belt and missed and hit the gum rack above it. Still not sure if she knew she was now buying 7 packs of gum that were hidden underneath her bread. She then started to throw the rest of her things up there. I moved as far forward as i could. I am almost there...almost to the front to get checked out and get out there. As the guy checking people out grabs my basket, the lady in front of me (remember, with the 37 tv dinners) comes back and says..."wait, you forgot to ring in my coupon!" OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!! So the nice fella grabbed her bags and re-rung her dinners and Tang. This time not forgetting the coupon.

I spent nearly 20 minutes in the check out line.

When i move, i shall miss my late night Fred's Kingdom runs. But the creepies out in Issaquah at night...i will do fine without!