reflections…

When I get bored from writing, or want to stretch my legs these days, I usually go out on a walk up to the nearest supermarket where I could also get my essentials from. That way I’m not wasting any extra time doing shopping – very important when you are trying to complete your thesis writeup and the deadline is just a few weeks away! Anyway, I was on my daily outing to the supermarket earlier this evening, and was looking for some eggs from among the options. An old man approached to me and asked me to get two packs of eggs (each with 4 eggs) from the shelf right at the bottom. I thought he wanted my help probably because he couldn’t bend that low down to get them himself. When I handed him two packs of eggs and got up from my hunch, he hands me back those two packs and tells me that buying those two were cheaper than what I was looking at before. Apparently he had been observing me looking at the packs of organic eggs (about £1.50 for a pack of six eggs), and said I’d save not only 50p but also get two more eggs if I took those two packs of 4 each! I tell him I could get more packs and that he could take those two. He says, “I asked you to get those for yourself, I already got a couple of packs for me”. As I was thanking him, he had moved on to continue his shopping