The Quest of the Black-eyed Peas...
Jan. 1st, 2009 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamflowerNow, as many Americans know (especially those of the Southern variety) a New Year's Day must not pass without eating black-eyed peas and greens. To do so is as bad as breaking a mirror or a chain letter! Why, prosperity for the whole year depends on ingesting those particular items!
Unfortunately, I had no black-eyed peas on hand. The can I *thought* was black-eyed peas on my shelf were simply a can of pinto beans, in a different brand than I normally buy. Alas!
So after lunch, the DH and I set out on a two-fold Quest: to pick up my paycheck and also a can of black-eyed peas. Braum's unfortunately does not carry black-eyed peas, so we ventured to the nearby Wally World. Arriving at Walmart, I went to the grocery side and found the canned vegetable aisle, where stood a dozen people staring in dismay at a blank space on the shelves: NO black-eyed peas! Not in cans OR dried! A Walmart associate came to the aisle to announce that there were no cans of black-eyed peas in the store, nor bags of dried either. But she was fairly sure there were some frozen ones in the freezer section.
I managed to race ahead of the ensuing stampede to the freezer case, only to find that there were no frozen black-eyed peas either!
So I sadly trudged back to the car, and we tried the other grocery store in town, only to find no black-eyed peas of any kind there as well. Then we tried the two Dollar General stores only to find they had just sold out--the manager of the second one told me he had sold four cases today!
Now, that meant there were no more stores in town where I could hope to find the precious black-eyed peas. I was castigating myself soundly--for without black-eyed peas, how could we be expected to survive the coming year?!?
But the DH, my knight in shining armor, would not give up.
We drove ten miles to the next town, where there was a Piggly-Wiggly! There, I found a few cans of black-eyed peas on the shelf. Not wishing to be greedy, I took only two, and we made our triumphant way home!
Now our New Year will be prosperous and happy!!!
However, our "little errand" took nearly four hours.
Unfortunately, I had no black-eyed peas on hand. The can I *thought* was black-eyed peas on my shelf were simply a can of pinto beans, in a different brand than I normally buy. Alas!
So after lunch, the DH and I set out on a two-fold Quest: to pick up my paycheck and also a can of black-eyed peas. Braum's unfortunately does not carry black-eyed peas, so we ventured to the nearby Wally World. Arriving at Walmart, I went to the grocery side and found the canned vegetable aisle, where stood a dozen people staring in dismay at a blank space on the shelves: NO black-eyed peas! Not in cans OR dried! A Walmart associate came to the aisle to announce that there were no cans of black-eyed peas in the store, nor bags of dried either. But she was fairly sure there were some frozen ones in the freezer section.
I managed to race ahead of the ensuing stampede to the freezer case, only to find that there were no frozen black-eyed peas either!
So I sadly trudged back to the car, and we tried the other grocery store in town, only to find no black-eyed peas of any kind there as well. Then we tried the two Dollar General stores only to find they had just sold out--the manager of the second one told me he had sold four cases today!
Now, that meant there were no more stores in town where I could hope to find the precious black-eyed peas. I was castigating myself soundly--for without black-eyed peas, how could we be expected to survive the coming year?!?
But the DH, my knight in shining armor, would not give up.
We drove ten miles to the next town, where there was a Piggly-Wiggly! There, I found a few cans of black-eyed peas on the shelf. Not wishing to be greedy, I took only two, and we made our triumphant way home!
Now our New Year will be prosperous and happy!!!
However, our "little errand" took nearly four hours.