A more sensible time today!
I am sure many of my readers will remember the days when you went shopping and the shopkeeper added the price of your items in his or her head, then pressed down hard on the huge levers on Arkwright’s till? Yes? Well so do I.
I also recall the days when a bloody computer never stopped you from buying something that was for sale!
Did my shop yesterday to avoid the weekend rush (although there was one, spring festival is definitely under way) and when I got to the till everything scanned bar a frozen pack of peas and prawns. I wanted some shelled prawns to use in an omelette for tonight’s dinner. The packs with purely prawns in them were more expensive and had way too many in them, I can never have enough peas and I only need a few prawns for an omelette. The barcode when scanned made the computer say no. Clearly this item hadn’t been put in the system. No problem, thought I, I had memorised the price at 14.8 yuan. Oh no! if it’s not on the system even if we have a hundred packs on display we can’t sell it to you! Or that’s what I gathered from the Chinese being spoken.
Sometimes I really wonder whether the world has made any real progress since I was born. I had to leave sans my prawns.
So today I decided I would go out locally. I needed to buy a spare bulb for the bathroom light (having had to use the spare the other day) and it was haircut time seeing as I was getting dangerously close to needing a comb. I would then take a walk to another supermarket close by to get my prawns.
No rush, so mid-afternoon I decided to shower. The water was off!
So I waited until it was restored and cleaned up but by that time the idea of walking to the supermarket had receded and I decided bacon, egg and chips would do. The sun was low in the sky when I went out but I did take the photos I had planned to. One is of the fire station very close to my home (check out the sign!) and the other two are our local neighbourhood’s celebration of the coming of the year of the rooster.
I did get my bulbs and I did get my haircut. The owner it seems now knows I only want the young girl to cut my hair seeing as she cuts it short on top too. One time when I have plenty of time I will get her to wash it afterwards as well but only for my own gratification! The price is the same but I hate going to the barber with unwashed hair so I never need it.
Last night I watched “A Monster Calls”. I didn’t think I would enjoy what I thought was a kid’s film and only watched because I like Liam Neesson but it was actually very good. As for tomorrow, I don’t know whether to try and go to RT Mart again and see if they have any imported goods now. It’s 90 minutes on two buses to get there but finally I have figured out how to use Google Maps to tell me the bus numbers. I shall see how I feel on the day.
Check the sign
Very realistic!!
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