Karma I tell ya. Sometimes it just comes around and bites you in the butt! Like this morning.
I headed over to Safeway for some FREE money making cornflakes (buy 4 boxes for $4, use $2 in coupons, pay $2, get $3 off your next order: viola! Mavis makes a buck while she’s there picking up tahini sauce and parsley so she can make a batch of JJ’s Hummus Dip)
Sounds easy enough, right?
WRONG!
As soon as I placed the free coupon crack cornflakes in my cart I noticed I had some extra coupons, so I tried to give them away. I went up to 2 different mothers in the cereal aisle and asked them if they wanted some magical coupons for 4 free boxes of corn flakes. They both said no, which I thought was odd especially since one lady had 3 boxes of Captain Crunch and 2 Life cereal in her cart. Obviously her family eats cereal. Whatever.
Then I turned the corner and saw a lady (if I had to guess I’d say she was like 65 years old) and asked her if she wanted some coupons that would net her 4 free boxes of Corn Flakes.
And you know what she said???
She said, “NO. In fact I saw YOU putting all that cereal in your cart and I wanted to know if you were planning on feeding that to your children. Don’t you know what’s in that stuff?”
“No. What’s in it,” I said.
She grabbed a box of cereal out of my cart (NO JOKE) and pointed to the ingredients and said “High Fructose Corn Syrup. It’s been all over the news. Don’t you watch the news? I wouldn’t feed that crap TO MY DOG!”
I ALMOST PEED MY PANTS!
I thought she was going to start hitting me with the cereal box…
And before I knew it that woman started holding up each and every item in her cart and telling me their 1 word ingredients:
Spinach
Cauliflower
Carrots
Chicken (she loses 1 point for it not being organic)
Papaya
Wheat Germ
Yep. Mavis got schooled this morning by Grandma on aisle 7 at Safeway.
It was AWESOME!
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Carolyne Thrasher says
You posted this over 2 years ago, but I just found your blog and have been lurking around reading old posts. When I came across this post, I nearly died laughing. Couldn’t breath because I was laughing soooo hard. I’m pinning this on Pinterest to spread the word about your blog. Two things were funny about this. One, I could be you in this scenario and, two, I’m going to be that little old lady someday.
Bebe says
Lol… I would be that lady if the same thing had happened to me! My husband still buys cereal on rare occasions but I must admit, am a cereal nazi. It’s more than just what’s IN the cereal. The whole process of making cereal involves high heat and high pressure (extrusion) and in the end whatever real, whole food was used has been so mercilessly damaged as to make it unfit for consumption. Grandma was more right than she probably even knew.
Wynne says
Mavis, you’re a great sport.