LOL! Here we are at Funny about Money…After only three tries to get online. 😀 By 5:30 a.m., this morning had already revealed itself as the start of One Of Those Days. Ugh! Whatever you touch goes wrong. Touch it twice, and it goes wrong with a vengeance.
This morning will start with a major misadventure: I have to WALK to the grocery store, way to Hell Gone halfway to frikkin’ Yuma.
Why? Because my son has stolen my car.
Why? Because my idiot cleaning lady convinced him I was passed out drunk at the dining-room table.
No kidding!
When she was here the other day, banging around from pillar to post, I was feeling very sick. The peripheral neuropathy was driving me nuts; I hadn’t been able to sleep all night; and I hurt from the top of my head to the tips of my toes.
So while she was roaring around the house, I sat down to the dining room table to have a bite to eat with half a glass of white wine. That accomplished, I stayed sat, folded my arms on the tabletop, and laid my weary head down.
She, in all her wisdom, decided this indicated I was passed-out stinko drunk!
So, the Soul of Concern, she whips out her phone, snaps a photo of me with my head laid down on the table next to a half-empty wine glass, and emails it to my son!
He freaks. Charges over here. Even though I’m clearly not plastered, he thinks I must be — how could a genius cleaning lady like Luz be wrong, eh? So he decides to confiscate my car!
No kidding!
It’s now parked at his place, too far away for me to walk, and impossible to retrieve anyway because he no doubt has it locked inside his garage.
So now, the only way I can get groceries is to HIKE to one of the grocery stores around here, dodging drunks and panhandlers every step of the way.
Hey! It’s good exercise: adds an extra mile or two to the mile-long daily doggy-walk. But how am I supposed to haul a week’s worth of groceries two miles through 100-degree heat?
In an old laundry cart, that’s how.
Well, it’s 6 a.m. The Sprouts doesn’t open until 7:00 a.m., but the far less desirable Albertson’s will be open now. Wunderground predicts a temp of 105 degrees today…so I’d better get going before the sun rises any further.
What the fu*k IS the matter with people?????
Delivery. In Austin HEB groc delivers, Walmart, wholefoods,Amazon all deliver. If you want to
Piss off son report car stolen. Sorry for your family squabbles. Keep up the fight. Good luck. Have enjoyed reading for years. Thanks. Ed
Yes…have recently found that out. Apparently all of the local grocery stores, including Sprouts(!) and the ritzy-titzy AJ’s, will deliver! Who’d’ve thunk it?
This WILL solve almost all the problems entailed in the present imprisonment scheme. Plus we have an Uber driver living across the street: he can get me to & from appointments. Truth to tell, getting rid of the rolling Hole in the Ground into Which to Pour Money may turn out to be a GOOD thing….