Yesterday I went into town to have an eye test. And now I am wearing glasses for reading and computering !  I also did a little bit more christmas shopping and on my way back, I went to Sainsbury to do a weekly shopping so we wouldn't have to do it over the weekend. It's always a nightmare when you go food shopping at the weekend. Everyone seems to have the same idea as you and you end up queueing for ever to pay for your grocery.
So anyway, I filled up my trolley and went to the checkout.
There was this girl before me. She must have been a student looking by what she was buying. A vegetarian student with not much money .
I always love looking at what people buy. You get the scoomer family buying loadsa fizzy pop, crisps, chocolate and sausages in a tin. Their kids are usually unkept and dirty and they are all looking very unhealthyly fat and grubby.... and on top of that, they usually are very rude and say the 'F' word in between each words of each sentences.
Then you have the bachelors and batchelorettes. With their ready meal for one and bottles of wine and a baguette! They look at you funny when your kid plays up a little. They seem to have forgotten they were kids once too!
Anyway yesterday as I was waiting to put my food on the conveyor belt, I hear a voice behind me: 'Hello darling, how are you!'. Not recognising the voice, I dont bother turning. It is obviously not meant for me. But I hear it again 'Hello Darling!'. So I turned around and I see that granny woman with a shopping basket smiling at me. Never seen her in my life before. But she insists. 'How are you pet?'. So I nicely and politely reply 'I am fine thank you'. Then she starts talking again but this time to whoever wants to hear her. 'Aren't you all just lovely dear, girls nowadays are so beautiful. Lovely clothe and beautiful hair. They all are so pretty, all of you!'. So I smile and thank her again and start putting my stuff on the conveyor belt. And then I hear her say 'Of course in my days, we never had clothe like this. I never had any new clothe me, oh nooo. My mother always got me clothe from the charity shop. And they were never nice. I never looked nice when I was young. I had old rags on me'. Feeling sorry for herself, I smiled gently and turned back to my grocery. But she carried on 'Of course in my days we never had anything nice at all. I never slept in a bed when I was a young child. I never had a bed of my own me. I was sleeping on the old coach in the living room. We only had one living room. Not like these days where you have rooms for every activity of the family. No I never had a bed me. I was sleeping on a coach. And my old mother, bless her, she had an army to look after. Brave woman she was. She used to put this old coat on me at night so I wouldn't get cold. But these days kids have everything. For christmas I had an orange. But now they have everything. Toys and computers. My grandaughter had a car for her birthday. A car.... a Vauxhall it was. Yeah. Her dad bought it for her and she had a car for her birthday. It's amazing huh. Kids nowadays they have everything. I only had an orange for my christmas and I was grateful for it. Of course these days kids dont care and they have everything. Like my grandaughter who had a car for her birthday. Her dad bought it for her and she's got a car now. I like this shop. There's so much to buy in here. So much choice, so many thing to see and buy. You dont know where to look. I have been coming in this shop for 13 years. Yeah I love shopping me and I like this shop best.'
At that point I was engrossed in packing my stuff away and thankfully the old lady was now speaking to the poor girl who was behind her.
This poor old bag was just lonely I guess. Judging by her shopping basket where she had a small packet of Rich Tea Biscuits and a small bottle of fizzy water, she obviously came to the shop to chat to people.
And me, being busy and in hurry to get home so I could do my nails (self centered cow I am) before picking the kids from school, I left quickly and forgot about that old woman. Until this morning .... I thought I'd write about her! Then I'll go back to my little busy life and forget about her again.

I dont wanna grow old!
Mey
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