Today’s market trip, my quickest on record, could have been the ending of a Twilight Zone episode: at every turn I was prevented from buying what I needed by an obstacle course of excessively long webbed leashes attached to the smallest, yappiest dogs imaginable. I stepped on an apple that had fallen off a table, and for a brief moment thought I had crushed the skull of someone’s schnauzer.
To keep my torment to a minmum, I focused on the essentials: raspberries, cucumbers, gala apples, purple viking and yellow potatoes, pineapple tomatoes, coffee cake, white bread (for tomorrow’s previously alluded to breakfast experiment), and Taza’s new salt & pepper Mexican chocolate (not a necessity, but a necessary indulgence).