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"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:43:14 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Janet B" > wrote in message
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>>> I don't understand how you can shop so many places and schlep to and
>>> fro when your feet are so painful and you are so handicapped. I know
>>> that my challenged leg wears me out with just one trip to Costco or
>>> Winco and yet you manage more than one store. I'm pleased for you.
>>> Janet US

>>
>>When did I say that my feet were painful? What would they be painful
>>with?
>>I don't remember saying this.

>
> LOL, just unreal.


Oh? Then please tell me where I said this. Yeah when Im stepped on the
nail or the piece of glass, there was pain. What is supposed to be causing
pain now?
>
>>Yes, I am disabled. Does this mean I should
>>never go to the store? Disabled people need exercise too you know and
>>shopping is my main form as I can hang on to the shopping cart for
>>balance.
>>
>>I did not say that I go to all stores in one day. I also have to take my
>>now nearly totally blind mom shopping.
>>
>>I'm not stupid. I know how to plan things. I generally plan my shopping
>>trips. Last time at Winco we hit the produce and dairy sections only. In
>>this particular store they are on opposite ends of the store. For some
>>odd
>>reason, the bread that I buy is not with the other bread but on a floor
>>display near the dairy. I needed that and also cottage cheese.
>>
>>I will sometimes go up and down almost every aisle but I have been getting
>>plenty of exercise with the Spring cleaning and prom stuff so I only went
>>where I needed to go.
>>
>>I also try to buy what I can online, mainly at Walmart, Boxed, Drugstore,
>>etc. Things like nuts, some canned goods, beef jerky and other shelf
>>stable
>>things. I recently placed an order at HEB. But there are some things that
>>are cheaper to get in the brick and mortar stores and some I just have to
>>like produce. So most of the time when I do go grocery shopping, I have
>>one
>>or two bags of things. If doing a stock up at Winco, I may have as many
>>as
>>6 bags.
>>
>>I have to go to so many stores because... Some have cheaper prices for
>>some
>>things. Some carry specific things that I can't get elsewhere. And my
>>mom
>>is fond of a store that I don't particularly like. I have to take her
>>there. I will go in and if I need a thing or two that they sell, then I
>>might buy them there to save a trip elsewhere. It isn't always all about
>>the cheapest price for me.
>>
>>That's my shopping now. When I was at my worst and before they had
>>figured
>>out why I was so crippled, I went to the store every day. I could do two
>>aisles in one shopping trip. Two close together aisles. I was that
>>crippled. I really had to plan my shopping carefully making the most of
>>it.
>>We all ate more produce than anything in those days because the produce
>>section was just inside the door. And if things were really bad for me, I
>>could always just go to the drugstore. It was smaller and I didn't have
>>to
>>walk far to get frozen sausage, boxed mac and cheese, butter, milk, canned
>>green beans or a few other things. Wasn't my first choice but I could
>>still
>>make a meal.

>
> I, I, I. Me me me.
>
>>There are those who sit around and whine and those who manage to do. I
>>prefer to manage to do. I find ways.

>
> LOL.


It's not funny.