I had an entire morning's worth of living like a pioneer lady with no running water.. and I've gotta say that I don't wanna do that again anytime soon.

I stopped at the super-duper Cub grocery store near the gym. I've never been a Cub shopper. I still think of it as a "boy" grocery store.. very warehousey, very utilitarian. Rainbow/Roundies is the girl grocery store equivalent. (I also do this for other stores: Home Depot = Boy, Lowe's = Girl. Walmart = Boy, Target = Girl. I don't know why I do this. I just do.)

But this Cub... this Cub had promise. A huge natural foods section. An equally huge international section, including an entire aisle that was Thai on one side, Indian on the other. The aisles were wide and not full of junk. I wandered around a bit, thinking that this store could change my entire mindset about Cub. Good selection, clean, convenient.. why, maybe we should shop here all the time.

Then - as I was leaving, pushing my cart of groceries toward the door - the guy who was collecting carts and baskets from the ends of the aisles seemingly *waited* for me to walk past the end of the aisle that he was in and then darted out in front of me, pushing 4 carts piled with about 10 baskets. I had to veer off to the right, almost taking out a store manager who stood there watching the whole thing. He walked away, and the kid laughed and said "YEAH!"

What. the. hell. So, "yeah" indeed.. those two jerks ruined Cub for me for all time. I'm going back to Target, because it's a girl store.