Grandma's Grocery

[susandennis]

In the parking lot at the Safeway this morning, I saw this grocery cart tucked in with the others waiting to be picked up and taken back into the store. It cracked me up. It's not often I want to be a little girl again - in fact, nearly never, but I'd love to be one just once so I could ride in this. And, I'd like my Grandma to push me.

I had two grandmothers growing up. My father's mother was a skinning old mean bitch who didn't like me either. But my mother's mother was The Perfect Grandma. She was sweet and wonderful and had big squishy arms and gave the best hugs of anyone on the face of the earth. Ever.

She lived in Oklahoma City and we lived in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina. So we didn't get to see a lot of her, but when we did, it was magic. She even had a fabulous grocery store. The IGA near her house was probably tiny but seemed huge to me. And it would have been pretty cool if it was only a grocery store.

But, there, just inside the front door was a cartoon booth. It was a big black box with a bench on one side - big enough for 4 or 5 kids - and a screen on the other and it showed an endless loop of cartoons. How brilliant is that??? I'd BEG Grandma to go to the grocery. I'd make a beeline for the black box and she would have to drag me out when she was done. I've never seen another one since but I'll never forget that one.

This little cart would be about as cool, frankly.