Posted originally in Aug 2023
I wannna go back to the days when I
could fit completely in the grocery cart.
How life was fun then, and in retrospect,
easy (but you don’t think that as a child).
You think, “when will mommy give me candy?”
'“When will she spin me ‘round in a wheelie’?
”Why can’t I keep kicking the front seat flap?”
It was cool to sit by the ice cream box
and play drums on it with celery stalks
(which I never liked to eat).
And I loved to make music by plucking
the metal cart rails with pencils and pens.
I played a mini concert each time in the cart!
(that really plucked all of ma’s nerves!)
Oh, life was so simplistic back then…
Now as a big girl steering the cart ‘round,
I find the grocery experience downright uncool!
50 bucks gone in a snap at checkout.
Spent just on bread, eggs, milk, one meat,
ice cream, and organic celery stalks
(which I now love to eat!)
A sad song plays in my head
...while bagging my own groceries in the cart!
Nice to look back on those times when you were a kid. I can go back there with a picture memory, like yours! And your memories made me laugh. Very sweet ! (I teach my 9-month old grandson how to drum on everything with anything) We roll metal cake pans on their rims across the floor to see what music they will make. My daughter tells me he loves coming to visit because he has so much fun here. He gives me a chance to be silly again.
That exact same process is performed by millions of people every single day.
I do wonder if we were having more fun when we had to throw a spear at our weekly shop, then perhaps we'd run around cheering and laughing.
The mood at the checkout nowadays is a little less exciting, well of course we're all civilised now.
Enjoyed that poem.