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One of my favorite parts about going to the grocery store is looking into other people's carts to see what they're buying. Sometimes I do it to get ideas about stuff I might like to eat, but more often than that I'm just trying to get a cheap laugh.

Cub is a better place to do it than Byerley's, mainly because you seem to get more 'variety' in the types of people shopping there. At Cub you get your soccer moms pushing 2.2 kids around in a cart shaped like a truck, your young couples holding hands while they shop, your new immigrants - who always seem to shop in groups of 18 or more - picking through the dried peppers, and your confused old dudes who zone out while staring at the shelf with 12 different types of tartar sauce on it, trying desperately to remember which one they like best.

At Byerly's on the other hand, you get your people who like French Gruyere and your people who like Swiss Gruyere. That's about it.

So anyway, today I did a big Cub run, and other than the adult dude helping his mother pick out which croutons she wanted - which apparently is a 15 MINUTE JOB - the cart spying wasn't all that great. I did see a couple of neat ones, though:

I saw an older lady pushing her cart toward the check out lanes with only 36 rolls of toilet paper and a 12 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper in it. She wasn't walking very fast. I wondered if maybe the caffeine would help get her moving. Ha.

Later, while picking up some iron pills for Libby at the Friendly Cub Pharmacy (no Riss, ah boo), I saw a young couple buying an EPT. Later, when I pushed my cart out to the car, I noticed an EPT box lying on the ground in the parking lot, open and empty. You think she... umm... used it right there?

Ew.