annoyed at the supermarket

I just took my fully-vaccinated self to the grocery store, to get a few things before adrian_turtle gets here (I'm taking care of both her and cattitude after their second vaccine doses).

The Star Market in my part of Belmont has one-way arrows on the aisles, and frequent announcements over the PA telling us to follow the one-way signs. So I did, and I was passed at least three times by store employees going the other way. I was annoyed enough to go to the customer service desk after checking out, and ask them to either have their staff follow the one-way instructions, or stop nagging shoppers about it over the PA.

Italian ices

On my way home from the supermarket, I stopped at the convenience store and got a cup of blue vanilla Italian ices. Blue vanilla because that looked like a fresh container, and there was a noticeable puddle at the bottom of the watermelon ice container.

This feels significant, because the last time I went in there for ices was in March 2020, and my post that day was titled "a surprisiong touch of normalcy." I was thinking "I won't be doing this for a while," but had no idea how long that while was going to be.