 |  |
Friday morning after the day before, and the first thought swimming around in my head when i wake up is "actimel! actimel! actimel!" - there is not a chance in hell that i won't forget to drink my actimel today - the fear of day 3's incident has branded its mark. i even contemplate getting a tatoo on my hand "Remember Sammy Jenkis" but maybe thats a little extreme - i'm allergic to pain anyway.
i have lunch with simon, adrian and slim - good food, i go back to work, i go for a drink or six with alex slim and greg.
saturday - and nothing again to speak off.
oh my god - sainsburys was [again] absolutly packed. its a true hell on earth, even with built-in temptations (the deli counter, the numerous attractive single women putting meals for one in their baskets, the sweeties aisle, ben and jerrys). the ungodly screams of pain and terror as lost souls float around the supermarket looking for organic asparagus tips, and finding nothing more than miniture ornimental cabbage. the catfights over the last packet of quilted loo roll, the mad panic dash to find a checkout queue which is shorter than portions of the great wall of china.
i then see a lone trolly standing on one of the aisles, already filled to bursting, and i have an idea. what if you didn't have to shop - wasting time meandering around the shelves looking for dried miso soup or grain fed duck breasts. what if you could turn up at the supermarket, and view a range of prefilled trollies/baskets [delete as applicable to how much shopping you need]. you simply pick the trolley which suits your needs best, pay and leave. you wouldn't even need to go through the checkout, as they already know how much the trolley is valued at.
you could even have themed trollies, the christmas trolly (turkey, crap joke books, alka-seltzer), the houswarming party trolly (stella, peanuts, alka-seltzer), the single bloke trolly (stella, peanuts, alka-seltzer), the sunday roast trolly (beef, potatoes, alka-seltzer). you could have celebrity themed trollies, what would the celebrity have in their trolly? the les dennis (meals for one, cd of love songs, alka-seltzer), the jamie oliver (frozen ready meals, alka-seltzer).
it would be a revolution, and not only would it ensure that your day is not wasted in checkout queues, it would also solve those hours spent choosing what to cook - you'd have a set number of ingrediants, and you would be forced to do something with them - like total immersive ready steady cook, but without fern britten.
i've seen the future - and the future is pre-packed.
sunday and the paper writing isn't going fantastically well - whether the actimel is in my tummy or not. so i went out for a walk and found four road traffic accidents, 18 disposed xmas trees and a scooby doo DVD advert on a bus. i'm back now, and saw the last five minutes of crocodile dundee, the last half of the goonies and am about to cook food. however, S to the L to the I to the M has started a ratings war over at his blog, so i have to plan my revenge first of all.
