I'm Back

Well, before a whole year is offically here I thought I would get bloggin' again.

And the only ones that will know are the faithful few who are still checkin'......ok the 1 that hung in there. (Thanks Nana)



I will post pictures of some of the renos that have happened since I was here last, next time, but today is the story of "The Thief"



For those of you that really know me, know that I so dislike shopping, and its not that I don't like to have things, I do, but I just like to stay home more.



It was a sunny Sunday afternoon (just-about 11:39, oh wait I didn't turn the clock ahead) at 12:39 and I had spent an hour pushing my shopping cart through the crowded isles of The Great Canadian Super Store (another reason to have stayed home--but there really was no food and we both needed lunches for work the next day)

It took me a very long time to find the cocoa powder, and yes I had been up and down the baking isle before asking a young man to help me out (I was not going home without it) So this young man takes me back up the baking isle and "oh here it is mam". Did I mention that this young man was 6 feet tall and that the cocoa powder was on the very top shelf.....(who even looks up that far)

So I get into the checkout and see an acquaintance and we end up talking for a very long time and then off we go to our own vehicles to head home.



I get to the truck and press that wonderful little button to unlock the doors and I put the 4 green boxes and 2 bags of groceries into the back seat of the truck (the seats fold up and make lots of floor space) and then go off pushing my cart merrily to its shopping cart garage, and just as I get there I think, "I don't think I locked the truck" (and I usually always do) so I push the buttom to lock "twice" because I'm not that close and I wanted to hear the horn honk. Well I didn't hear the horn honk but I did see the tail light flash and so as I got to the truck I push the button again to unlock it, get in and head home to unload the groceries and make some lunch. (soup and grilled cheese...I had just bought cheese , soup and bread).



Now there is a standing joke between Jime and I, and that is he will be on the computer and because we do online banking he can tell what I've spent and where before I even get home. So I back up the driveway (like a pro) in the truck and Jime comes out to help take in the grub and says to me, "if you had spent 7 more dollars then you would have gotten the free $25 gift card you get when you spend $250.00".Ha ha!!!! (I never even paid attention really, although I did think I was being thrifty and not spending more than I needed to-not as thrifty as I thought)

Now he grabs the back dooor to the truck and opens it and jumps in the back seat (remember, the seats fold up out of the way giving you alot of floor space to put groceries) And says "where the heck are the groceries?" If you spent $243.95 you should have more than 1 green box and 2 bags"(did you do the math?)



"What?" (I see to much floor space)
Where?
What? (Did I drive to fast? did they slide somewhere?)
How?,
There GONE!!!!! Oh I think I'm gonna puke,
Who?(that's just not possible)
How? (I think I'm gonna puke)
When?......AAHHHHH!!!!!! I need to sit down...........Oh, I don't feel so good.



I never really thought much about it, but when I was putting my groceries into the truck I remembered seeing an olvie green mini Van-with blacked out windows (and you know who you are) pull up on the other side of the truck. (and yes it is a shopping parking lot and people are allowed to pull in and park) and when I got back from putting my shopping cart away (had to get my loonie back) I noticed it driving away.

I also remember seeing the head of a man while I was pointing the keys at the truck to lock it and beep the horn. (people do walk between cars to get to theirs)



Never thought to look in the back seat.....why would you......but .......yes ....that dirty bugger stole 3 of my green boxes of groceries.

In the short amount of time it took me to put my cart away, he opened his sliding van door and my UNLOCKED truck door and grabbed the green boxes and I must have scared him off trying to lock it from the cart parking thingy place. So he didn't get them all.


Do you Lock your vehicle when you put your cart away????

Maybe you will now!!!!!!!