This weekend I have family coming to stay. Four people are descending on me and I need to feed them for four days. Living by myself I am not used to food shopping for so many people. I like to think I am organised so I have made myself a very, very, very long shopping list and off I went to Tesco.
Unfortunately, because I have been working all day, I got to Tesco just after 6pm.
6pm is the time that holiday makers come off the beach and go shopping for something for their tea.
Holiday makers never know what they want for their tea.
They mooch around in unfamiliar supermarkets in flip flops and shorts, spreading sand all over the supermarket floor. They usually have the whole family with them. By 6pm the kids are hungry, grumpy and very, very, whingey!!!
Holiday maker families clog up the aisles in supermarkets!!!
They stand around having arguments about what they are going to have for tea. Gone are the days when the parents decided. In my day, my mum would say, 'we're having tofu & spinach tortellini and you'll like it or lump it'. Obviously, we never did have tofu & spinach tortellini when I was young because vegetarians hadn't been invented. But we had mince, tatties & carrots and the whole family ate the same thing. And my mum did say, 'you'll like it or lump it'.
These days it's like a major operation to decide what to have for tea.
Actually I couldn't care less what people have for tea. If parents today want to cook individually (or at least shove individual meals in the microwave) that's their choice.
I just wish they'd have the 'what shall we have for tea' discussion before they actually get to the supermarket.
Today I was so frustrated by the number of indecisive families with squealy brats that I abandoned my shopping expedition.
Going back to Tesco's at 8am tomorrow morning.
Will probably have a 'Tesco' rant tomorrow because they never have anything on their shelves at 8am in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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