The Grocery Gods are not with me

And nor are the router gods.

So, last night was Tuesday, which means I was more or less kid-less. I took a quick swing by Best Buy to look at gaming systems (I want an XBox SO bad, but can't bring myself to buy one...), got myself dinner at Moe's (I love Moe's), then headed home, debating which to do first, cut my grass or go shopping.

Since grass cutting pretty much requires light, and natural light at that, and since it was already after 6pm, I decided I should do that first. I was done and cleaned up by 7:30, though, so I headed out to do my shopping.

Now, Chapel Hill has a plethora of really good natural foods stores. We have our local chain, Weaver Street (my personal fave), a Whole Foods, a Trader Joes, and we're getting a Fresh Market. Not bad for a reasonably small town. But, we have a LOUSY selection of 'regular' grocery stores. Basically, your choices are Food Lion, which I lovingly call Food Slug, or Harris Teeter. HT's tag line a few years ago was, "The only low-price food store that refuses to act like one" My comment was, "Yeah, because they don't charge low prices!" And Food Slug is just nasty, and caters primarily to students. Yuck.

Anyway, so I usually go to the HT closest to my house. It used to be decent, but now it stinks. Meat is still good, but they're produce is atrocious, and they're frequently out of things and don't re-stock in a timely manner. Now, I know some of that is dependent on their supplies, but please, if you're out of skim milk FROM A LOCAL DAIRY on 5 consecutive Sunday nights, perhaps you should think about upping your order!

So, since I had the time last night, with no children to be fed, bathed, homework-monitored or whatnot, I decided to drive to the HT near my office, which is one of the better ones in town: Good produce, well stocked, etc.

Except not last night.

I'd already scoped out all the specials for the week, which change on Wednesdays, so I pretty much knew what I was going to buy. But I swear, the Carr Mill Harris Teeter ghosts had taken over the Meadowmont Harris Teeter! They were out of produce, the specials had been changed early, the produce that was there was ugly, and to top it all of I got a cashier with an attitude who was purely incapable of figuring out how to bag my groceries!

I was appalled! Befuddled! Ticked!!! I've never been failed this badly by that grocery store.

And, then just to add insult to injury, I got home, ready to blog about it, and my stinkin' router was being goofy!