I stumbled across a wondrous thing yesterday: how to get through the grocery store in record time. I’m sure it’s going to be universally useful to every person who reads from the fount of world-changing information known as Kate’s Blog.
How To Get Through Aldi In Eighteen Minutes
Step 1: Invite over two extra elementary school-aged boys.
Step 2: Promise them the XBox…AFTER you get done at Aldi.
Step 3: Prepare for anarchy. When they grab the list from your hand, just roll with it. When they shout, “What can I get next?” yell something. Anything. When the youngest cries because everyone else is faster than he is…ignore it.
Step 4: Let them run all over the store, collecting items. Don’t try to keep track of them. They’re like boomerangs. They always come back. The kids, that is. By all means, keep track of the list! That is, after all, the point of the visit.
Step 5: Let them find you a grocery lane. Because they can’t be any worse than you at picking the shortest line, right?
Step 6: When they go hide under the far checkout lane to do surveillance…just pretend they belong to someone else.
Step 7: Let them all pack a grocery bag, and forget worrying about what goes in it. Except for the lettuce bags. Those are sacrosanct.
Step 8: Leave Aldi 18 minutes after arriving.
There, you see? I told you it was universally useful. You’re welcome.
Happy Memorial Day!
Kathleen M. Basi 