The Real Da Vinci Code
It will probably be a while (read, never) before my colleagues at b5media.com allow me to author a blog, entitled, “married without children”…but I thought I would share some insight here anyway.
If you are marooned out in the suburbs–and you don’t have children, it can sometimes be like living in Superman’s “Bizaar-O” world, where everything is the opposite of what it really is.
Once again, I take you to my local “gi-NOUR-mo” store…the supermarket: Have you seen the size of milk and juice containers? They’re huge–why is that? And 16 pork chops in one package? Why, is Rachael Ray on the pork council now too? And why are loaves of bread the size of small cars?
You practically have to wear a trench coat and sunglasses to even think about breaking apart a dozen eggs in to 2 half dozens.
I totally understand that I live in two-car garage country (one car with ballet slipper sticker and one with soccer ball sticker)…and that it’s much easier for moms to make one or two food-shopping jaunts per month, rather than what I do, which is several times a week.
But honestly, we who dare to dine out several times a week, take multiple vacations each year, have jelly-free homes…have needs too. If the supermarkets would realize that and sell pint portions of milk…one or two pork chops…teeny boxes of cookies and mini loaves of bread…THAT my friends would be –
THE HOLY GRAIL!
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1 opinion for The Real Da Vinci Code
Laundry Woman
Jul 10, 2006 at 9:44 am
well, as I have six kids, I can’t exactly identify with this post… but, I have a small kitchen and it seems like all the cereal boxes, and cooking oil bottles are way too tall for my cupboards which is why they’re all crammed into the one cupboard that fits tall stuff- which, is over the stove, and which was not designed for a five foot two inch person to reach. My solution? Salad tongs. I get everything down with salad tongs. Unless it’s so empty they fall over and then I stand on a dining chair.
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