aldi antics......

ok, so friday is my current aldi day.......the crowd was such that it must be aldi day for a whole lot of budget minded folks.....i had a nice chat with a natural-born german speaker from my church, who was delighted to know that my boys will visit germanic countries over christmas...i am to give them her best....but i digress from the point of this blog.....it is my custom to let folks in front of me in line if they have no cart and are carrying an armload...and so i motioned for a woman dragging her bag to go in front....but the woman in front of me, who also had a cart, not only did not let this lady in front of her.....she asked bag-dragging lady if she recognized her....and cart lady semi-taunted this poor bag-dragging woman with...nope, that isn't where you know me from....through several ring-ups at the cashier's station, and then out into the parking lot.....until they reached cart-lady's car...and recognition of immediate.....all well and good....but these ladies were 75+ and the guess who game was wearing thin on the crowd.....i tell you mutiny was near if these ladies hadn't taken it outside.....what makes otherwise reasonable people act like fools?.....i passed by a woman who was asking nobody in particular just where to find the catfood, when her spouse pulled up with the cart, and sher laid into him with almost foul language that she wasn't buying a g-d bag of catfood that big and what was he thinking bringing her there(the aldi's)......gracious sakes....and to think that i almost stopped to help her find the blessed catfood...she'd have bit my head off before her husband ever showed up....and she looked perfectly meek and mild.....how wrong we can be about people.....and so now i am home and have put all my aldi groceries away...and i hope to locate the new yorker with the sasha frere-jones article where she reportedly trashes indie rock......what's up with that?.......maybe she will be even more outrageous than the ladies at the aldi......