1. I have a very strict and well-planned rotation for each grocery store I frequent. This allows me to hit all the important aisles, swing around to the dairy, pass through the frozen, and end my trip at the front of the store by the checkout. Every now and then, however, I screw up my rotation. This can play out in several calamitous ways:
- I end at the back of the store instead of the front. This forces me to double back through frozen to get to the checkout. It feels wrong.
- Very rarely, I forget something. Doubling back is not part of the rotation. I leave the store without that item.
- Turning mid-aisle to retrieve a forgotten item found in that same aisle is also considered doubling back. See above.
- Sometimes I find myself circling COUNTER CLOCKWISE through the store. I don’t even know how this happens. I don’t know who I am anymore.
2. Sometimes I accidentally sync up with someone who is clearly doing my same rotation. This forces me to either slow down or speed up to avoid walking with a stranger, wondering the whole time if I am required to make small talk or comment on the cleverness of their rotation pattern. Sometimes I just panic, abandon my cart, and try again the next day.
3. They are renovating one of the grocery stores I visit. That in and of itself is a problem, given my general abhorrence of change. This reno is especially troublesome, though, because they moved the wine section. I just figured out what kind of wine I like (it’s been a big year for me, beverage-wise – I also started drinking grown up coffee) and where it is kept. Now I need to relearn their wine organizational patterns and re-locate the one I like. They have been uncooperative with my requests for a schematic of the area.
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