Grandma, What Great Deals You Have!

A relatively young woman just discovered Aldi's. It started with her asking me where the jalapenos were. While I'm no expert in jalapenos, 🌶 I was able to find them in the pickle area to where she was referred. She thanked me profusely. So, that was the first I'd noticed her, like, right away. It seemed that I kept running into her and her grandma. 👵 Grandma must have gotten an early start, as I doubt I'd still be around for a gran-daughter that age. But that was chronological. The woman kept exclaiming at the wonderful deals all around the store...."Oh, a coffee pot...I want a coffee pot! ☕️ Grandma, how much money do you have? I'll pay you back when I get paid." "$7.98." Grandmas really have to keep track of just how much they have. 💵 Smart Grandma! I could hear this young woman exclaiming all around the store at this and that, and how she couldn't wait till she got paid. I couldn't help but wonder if Grandma had been the one to raise her, but then, I heard the woman on her phone 📞saying, "Bye Ma, Love you!" I thought I was the only one who noticed, but when I got to the smiling clerk,😄 after she'd left, he said, to everybody who was listening, "Did you notice how quiet it got after she exited?"🚶‍♀️

Mouse in the House

Settling down to a quiet time, and who should appear? A mouse🐭 in my house! 🏠 Bill was out, so what could I do? Well, eventually, the mouse found his way to the inside of the window sill, and I shut the window, fiercely. 🎬 (I assume that's where he'd sneaked in.) I stepped out onto the porch to undo the somewhat loose screen and "encourage" him to leave. He did so reluctantly, climbing down the wall, but then, planted himself back on the outside sill, to recover from a wounded tail. 🐁 Of course, this brought to my literary children's dramatics mind, that I had acted much like "the farmer's wife, who'd" 🙍inadvertently, "cut off his tail with a carving knife."🔪 I felt a little remorseful, but eventually, he went away, though I did not "see how he runs".🏃

HAL

I just took a walk to de-stress after talking to V.W. phone "computers", ☎ wherein they told me what they were going to do, which I DID NOT authorize, so I started yelling, "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" 🤦 into the phone. 📞 It's irrational to yell at a computer, but somebody must have heard me, because they called back, and I got a LIVE PERSON, 🤱 and we straightened the matter out. So, when she asked me, if there was anything else, I said, "Well, you could tell V.W. not to trust their computer phones to do it all. We need to talk to people directly." 🗣👤 I felt like my computer phone experience was similar to the interaction with HAL from "2001 Space Odyssey". 👩‍🚀 I don't remember exactly how that went, but it wasn't favorable from a human standpoint.