Pride and the Poor Princess
Sep. 30th, 2013 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyImagine the most hideous light switch cover you can think of. Are you holding that idea in your head? Right, is it as bad as this? You could not pay me to put that in my house. (What sort of decor would that go with, do you think? All white, to make a feature of it?)
On the other hand, rather that than this sweater.
I went to the supermarket with my mother and John yesterday. That was an experience. It was like shopping with the tortoise and the hare. My mother is a fast walker. She says it is all those years spent walking up and down hospital corridors. John is a slow walker. He likes to pick up things not on the shopping list and look at them. We would all start off at the start of an aisle, but by the time I reached the middle, my mother would be turning into the next aisle with an armful of groceries, while John would be back at the start comparing two tins of fish. So my mother covers four aisles in the time it takes John to cover two, when they meet up again and my mother can deposit everything she's picked up in the trolley that John is wheeling. That's one way to shop, I suppose.
On the other hand, rather that than this sweater.
I went to the supermarket with my mother and John yesterday. That was an experience. It was like shopping with the tortoise and the hare. My mother is a fast walker. She says it is all those years spent walking up and down hospital corridors. John is a slow walker. He likes to pick up things not on the shopping list and look at them. We would all start off at the start of an aisle, but by the time I reached the middle, my mother would be turning into the next aisle with an armful of groceries, while John would be back at the start comparing two tins of fish. So my mother covers four aisles in the time it takes John to cover two, when they meet up again and my mother can deposit everything she's picked up in the trolley that John is wheeling. That's one way to shop, I suppose.