Last month, I posted about falling in the grocery store. Now, I’m beginning to wonder if I should just quit shopping. Or if I need to go to a different store.
Last week, while I wasn’t at the same store, I was at the same chain of that particular store. It was a quick stop as I only needed a few items.
I’m inside the store, towards the back, and feel something on my neck. Usually, it’s my hair flying around everywhere. But as I felt my neck to move my hair away, I realized something was moving on my neck and it wasn’t my hair. I swatted at my neck, trying not to freak out in the middle of the grocery store. As I swiped at my neck, a bee fell and while it disappeared quickly behind some shelves, I felt the pain at my neck. Crap, that bee stung me! OUCH.
Once again, I’m in a grocery store, faced with indecision – do I grab my last few items and check out or drop everything and run home?
It’s amazing how a little sting (okay, not so little) can throw you off you groove and have your mind reeling a thousand different directions.
I continued with my shopping (again, only a handful of items), and had the presence of mind to run to the pharmacy area and pick up a bee sting remedy. I went through the self-checkout line and left as quickly as I could. I didn’t want to talk with anybody, didn’t want to attract attention, so I proceeded with business as usual.
Thankfully, my husband was home, having taken a half day off work. He got the stinger out, doctored me up and told me to take a break. Yep, adrenaline was spiking and I knew I would crash eventually. Adrenalin is a weird thing!
So, is there a point to this blog? Some deep, hidden meaning? Or am I just a klutz going splat one time, and unlucky this time by getting stung?
Should I just give up grocery shopping?
Weird things are going to happen in life. But what do you do? You do the only thing you can: Keep going, keep fighting, get up the next day and be determined. I’m determined to go back to that grocery store, just to prove I can.
What do you think? Are you determined when life gets funky?
Weird things may happen – but I’ll keep going.
However, maybe it’s time to start shopping somewhere else.
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I was always told that bees will leave you alone if you leave them alone; I guess that one didn’t get the memo. Looks really painful. Good move going back to the pharmacy. I think I would have just paid for my stuff and hightailed it outta there.
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Maybe if I had left him alone to crawl around my neck instead of swatting at it, I wouldn’t have been stung! But…it gives me the willies to even think about something crawling on me! Thanks for stopping by the blog. 🙂
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