The Supermarket Chore!

One of life's essential tasks if you are the person responsible for running the household is the daily and weekly grocery shop.
Now the fact that it is essential does not make it enjoyable, in fact it is one of the least enjoyable jobs there is, it is up there with cleaning the toilet in a house that boasts three men! Others may disagree and even argue that it is like taking a coffee break away from the hustle and bustle of their daily routine that is the housework.......give me peace!!!
The supermarkets are at war with your hearts, minds and wallet, there is no pleasure for the shopper only con tricks and mind games to get you to part with your hard earned cash!!
You know what I mean, it happens to us all, you go in to the shop knowing you need a loaf of bread and a carton of milk, so you pick up a basket as that will more than do the job in hand, by the time you have got past the first lane, you are pushing the basket along the floor with your foot as it is now to heavy to lift, in your mind at this point is a raging debate about the pros and cons of leaving the basket where it is and getting a trolley, meaning the walk of shame past the now obligatory security guard that is at every supermarket front door in case you make a break for it with a potato!
So walk of shame complete, round one to the supermarket and you start your shopping again knowing you are about to spend slightly more than you were meant to, but hey we have to eat and we must need it or I would not be buying it, would I?.........Round two to the supermarket!!
So as you go around being hit with promotion after promotion that you just cant resist and the smell of freshly baked bread and cakes filters through the store, just to make sure that your hunger senses are now on full alert, ready to pounce on the first item that just looks good enough to eat, no matter what that item maybe the chances are it is going in the now hard to push trolley.
Now looking at your full to the brim , aye overflowing trolley you question your own sanity in trying to use a basket in the first place!! Round three to the supermarket!
So trolley full to the brim it is time to load them on to a conveyor belt that will trundle towards the checkout operator, a person who clearly hates her job and now hates you because you have just piled up your mountain of promotions and bargains that means they will have to serve you listening to their till confirm every item with that infernal beep beep.
An awkward hello, followed by do you need any bags, no right answer here, if you say no and produce your own but half way through the packing run out, then be prepared for a rather huffy response when you stop the checkout person in mid flow as they throw your goods past the scanner, aye twice if it forgets to beep! On the flip side say yes please to bags and you get that look of despair that says you  have failed the environment, but worse still they have to turn around to get you them, with all the inconvenience that brings to their misery.
Bags packed, a mountain of paperwork spewing out of the till and wallet prized open and relieved of your hard earned cash. Aye another round to the supermarket!!
The job is not yet finished, you still have to pass one or two hurdles yet to get out of the store and into the fresh air, you have the newspaper kiosk where many of us seem intent on getting our own back on the supermarket, the idea of something for nothing, the people who stand and read the papers making no attempt to buy them, now these people used to annoy me to the point of distraction, however I now find myself admiring their fight back spirit!! A round to the shopper?
So you escape the clutches of the supermarket, you get home and have put all the shopping away battling with the fridge because it can hold so many buy one get one free packs of cheese and butter, finally the task is complete, job done, task over well at least for today!
As I collapse into my favourite chair with my hot drink of choice, I count the score to the supermarket and it is definitely a points win if not a knockout to them, so I challenge anyone to say that shopping is a pleasure, a coffee break and not the worst job on the list of household chores!