At 8:15 on Saturday 2nd April 2011 an odd sequence of events played out which I can't quite believe happened but I feel I have to share with you all.
My other half awoke after having 40 winks and declared it was far to late to start cooking so if I wanted something hot to eat I could go out for takeaway or go to the shops.
I don't know where it came from but from deep inside me a voice in my head leapt out and said lets go to shopping.
Being a Saturday Supermarkets actually shut so didn't leave us much time to play with so we drove towards Tour destination until we reached the middle of town when the traffic came to a stop and the sky was full of fireworks and the traffic were surrounded by many of the Indian community celebrating India's win in the Cricket World Cup.
I found a side street and got on with my journey only to discover that since I last went down it the local council had put bollards up at the end of the street. Eventually I managed to turn the van round and re-join the traffic and crowds.
Eventually we crawled through the celebrations and made it to the Supermarket. Now I don't know about you but when I go shopping I like to have cash on the hip so was flummoxed when all three cash points were out of money.
Once inside the Supermarket we started to fill the trolley up at a very slow pace even though I treated myself to the latest Tiger Woods game for the Nintendo Wii.
When turning into an aisle a child was running along and didn't look where he was going and ran straight into our trolley and burst into tears so had to wait for his parents to pick him up and dust him down.
I got to the drinks aisle and I wanted a bottle of drink I couldn't quite reach so jumped up on the lower shelf to try and grab the bottle only to have that shelf break and send quite a few bottles to the floor where one burst and sent a fountain of fizzy drink all over the place so then had to explain my actions to the Manager.
Once I'd explained what had happened I was allowed to carry on and made it to the till and as we'd almost finished all the lights went out for a short while and once they went back on we had to put everything back on the belt and do it all over again.
Just as we get towards home the van suddenly stops and I realise that after the Evenings events I hadn't remembered to put Diesel in the van which I would've done if I hadn't been so rushed so had to push the van home and will have to go out with a can to get some more today.
All in all an eventful evening was had, me and my big mouth when will I ever learn!
