I Lost It!

We went to the supermarket yesterday to do our monthly shop and I dropped a right clanger. The normal items like milk, bread, meat, yogurt etc. we get each time so no problem but I keep a list of other things that I will need when I go each month.  These are things that probably only run out every few months so when I start the new one I write it on the list to get another one in stock for next time.  LOL – yes you see I am organised.

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I try to write the list in the order that we go round the supermarket too so that we don’t have to double back for anything.  My husband hasn’t quite got this!  So if he adds anything to the list without asking me where he should put it  we may get right to the end of the supermarket and then find that the next items on the list (something he added) is right back at the entrance so we have to go all the way back for it.  So you see the best organised plans can go to pot!

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But I digress as the problem last night was that I lost my list not long after we got in there. We had only gone round the first few rows of the shop, which happens to be the fruit and veg section so I didn’t need the list until I got to the next rows.  When I went to get it out of my pocket it was gone!  Now we hadn’t gone far and I know I had it when we got into the shop as I had checked there was nothing we needed on the list before the fruit and veg rows.  I went back round where we had been but there was no list to be found.  We turfed out all the fruit and veg in the trolley to see if it was in there – no.  I asked a couple of the shelf stackers – no they hadn’t picked it up either.  Now I am pretty sure that my list would be no good to anyone else so I can’t see anyone else picking it up but as it was nowhere to be seen I can only imagine that a member of staff had noticed it and picked it up as they walked past to keep the aisles tidy.  Any other time it would probably have laid there for an hour or so!

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Now when I used to shop weekly, if I had forgotten to take the list I could probably remember most things on it,  but now we shop monthly some of the things on the list may have been on there for nearly 4 weeks and I can’t remember what I have gone to the cupboard for yet alone remember what we nearly ran out of  3 or 4 weeks ago.  Of course, the other problem is that these are important items that when we want to use them they will not be there, so when we finish the current toilet rolls or tube of  toothpaste it will mean that when we go to the cupboard for the replacement there will be none there and we will be stuck.  Although actually I did play safe with the toilet roll situation and bought a pack just to be sure.

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If I had just forgotten to take the list it would be so much easier as I could check it when I got home and if there was anything we had missed we could make sure we picked some up before we ran out.  But not having it at all means we will have no clue until it is too late.  A bit of a problem if it is the last toilet roll, for instance!

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I tried all the CSI tricks and looked to see the imprint of the list on the next sheet of paper which was almost there but not quite enough.  I couldn’t find a pencil but I tried rubbing over it with a crayon but I hadn’t written the list hard enough for it to imprint on the next page.  So we will just have to keep our fingers crossed that we don’t suddenly run out of something very important.

Today’s trivia:

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

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Today’s chuckle:

Some more of the Catholic Elementary School Test Answers

THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.

MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA . THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.

THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.

DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.