urban groceries.

so aside from the obvious differences between washington, d.c. and athens, ga or even brentwood, grocery shopping is incredibly more difficult in the city. after having our fuse blow out in our kitchen for the 4th time we went ahead and ordered groceries to be delievered anyway. a message from katina at safeway told me that due to an error with the typing in of my credit card number she was forced to cancel my order and that i'd have to repeat the task...this was only after talking to every other employee at safeway and discovering that the online department only works 3 hours a day and if you call back when they're not there no one else can help you, period. it's an amazingly efficient system. our groceries finally came this morning but with the multiple orders there was bound to be some mishaps...after valentine (the al green of delivery men) left we found that we still needed some supplementary items so i ventured to the store. a metro ride later i ended up in trader joe's in georgetown with every other person in washington, d.c. after spilling a box of blueberries i was pushed into a lady and accidentally ran my cart into her ankle. in polite southern manner i apologized profusely and asked if she was alright. after assuring me she was NOT alright and limping/whining away i recieved death glares throughout my entire checkout. walking to the metro in the rain proved to be hazardous for the paper grocery bags i had and by the time we got out of the metro to walk the 5 blocks back to our apartment my sweet friend jake had to take over and carry one of my bags. all in all the experience was just that and in the future fabric bags will be required.