Grocery Store Mishaps

Normally my boyfriend and I do the grocery shopping together on Sunday evenings.  We didn't go this past Sunday due to the holiday.  I am on vacation this week while my boyfriend is working so I thought I'd be nice and head to the store solo on Tuesday afternoon to grab groceries for a couple of nights worth of dinners.  Apparently that was a bad idea.  I didn't have just one mishap, but two.

First, I decided to get some grapes.  A nice healthy snack, and one of the few fruits I actually like.  I picked some out and weighed them on the scale.  Somehow between picking them up off the scale and walking back to my cart I lost my grip and the bag dropped to the floor.  Little red, seedless grapes went rolling everywhere.  I got down on the floor and hunted them all down and found a trash can to dump them in.  I actually had a little panic moment went I was throwing them in the trash -- can I just throw these out without paying for them?  And then I laughed at myself, got everything all picked up and moved on, pretending no one noticed. 

I drink a lot of diet coke and so went to the soda isle and picked up a 12 pack.  After about 45 minutes at the store I headed to the checkout counter.  I loaded everything on to the little conveyer belt except for the diet coke.  That's usually the heaviest item and it almost always gets loaded last.  I grabbed the the box using the little perforation and before I got I could get the box high enough to get it on the belt, the part of the cardboard I was holding ripped and it fell to the floor.  The front of the box also ripped open and then about a half dozen diet coke cans were rolling around at my feet.  I once again found myself crouched down on the floor picking up a mess.  Thanks god none of the sodas exploded on impact.  So with all my other groceries already loaded up and being partially checked out I had to run back and grab another box.

I got back in the checkout line, held my head low, and tried to get from the checkout line to my car without further incident.  Luckily, I was successful.  No bags broke as I was loading them into the trunk and nothing got left behind. 

Hopefully my next trip to the store will go a little mroe smoothly.