Daily Adventures in Lock down

As I explained to Joanne, the cashier at the Rosanna IGA the other day, “It’s a sad day when a trip to the supermarket is one’s only daily excursion.”  She took it in good part and I think we’re still friends.

The real adventure is not really visiting the supermarket, but in finding the way in.  The first decision is to do with finding a parking spot. It’s either beside the Post Office, or in the bay in front of Baker’s Delight.  If I’m accompanied, there’s often a disagreement, amiable of course, about which option to take.  Having resolved that one, the next decision involves choosing the shop to visit next.  This one is much more complicated.  Is the traffic clear?  In which case I can just Jay Walk across the road.  If there are already folk waiting at the pedestrian lights, I’ll wait because the lights will change and all of us will cross the road, but wait a minute, it seems that some are standing in a socially distanced queue for Bakers’ Delight.  So, I just take my chances.

Having crossed the road, I now have to find my way through the maze of fences, walkways and bridges to find where I want to go.  Er…sorry, I’ll have to go back to the car. I’ve forgotten my ecologically responsible reusable shopping bags in the boot of the car.  Now where did I manage to find that parking spot?

This time Baker’s Delight is clear, so I duck in to buy an escargot, or a chocolate croissant and maybe a danish lattice tart.  Better yet, I’ll buy all three. They are really very good.