Even for me three in a week is a lot. This kinda annoyed me this weekend and I wanted to share it.

Kroger’s had Pepsi 2-liters on sale for 88 cents. Thats a bit of a deal. One of the brands is the what we’ve moved over to, Diet Rite Zero, which I have to say is fabulous stuff and even if it had caffeine (which Mr Man is trying to cut down on) we’d still prolly choose it over Diet Pepsi (what Mr Man preferred till now) since it’s really danged tasty.

Anyway we decided to stock up on it since we/I drink a lot of pop. I have never been a water person, I came from a heavy pop drinking house and that’s just what I drink. I’m not making this up but I can’t drink much plain water. Even small glasses can actually make me queesy to the point I’ll have to puke it up - unless it’s ungodly hot and I’m dehydrated that is, then it’s no problem. Even my gastro doc is stumped by that one.

So, back to the story, earlier in the week I went and noticed the same pop shelves were cleaned out bare. We went Saturday before the sale ended and I enter the aisle a foot behind a couple who each have a cart. They stop right at the rack and start filling BOTH CARTS up with the Diet Rite, the product I came for as well.

I went “Hey, I need a few of those.” The woman stops looks at her hubby, and says “How many?” I say we’d like to have 10. (the rack is FULL) The husband says, “ure I think we can swing that.” Then his wife snaps into gear and proceeds to then start filling the cart FASTER. Now both their carts are blocking me so I jump into gear and squeeze through and grab three, squeeze back and dump them in and grab two and then turn around - and there is one left which they realize they’ve just screwed me and don’t take. That’s right - They filled up two cart loads and I got 6. (My guess they ran a drive through, church or store and were scoring a cheaper supply.) They also bought a few other dozen bottles of other Pepsi stuff.

I head to the front and tell the service counter it’s empty because two pigs cleaned it out as I was there and ask for a rain check. The woman at the counter is as stunned as I am when I tell her the story and says that produce has a supply as well and go check there as she hands me the rain check for some more. She was right, there is a decent supply and I grab a few more, (I was tempted to grab more than a couple but after that show I wanted to leave some more for others).

As we approach the line the the sodapigs are there and we’d be right behind them. We walk a few aisles so they don’t notice we have more than we did before when I was in the aisle with them and tip them off there is more to grab.

Now after this is all said and done Mr Man said he fully expected me to issue a screaming public smack down as I’ll freely admit I’m apt to do time to time when someone is being stupid or unbearable but I was a remarkably good girl. I’m sorta surprised too because in my brain while this is all happening I’m beating her over the head with a bottle of Merlot from the rack to my left, then kicking her teeth in and stealing her cart.