Wednesday, November 26, 2008

"Stevo's" Grocery Cart Story

When Stevo was in Germany for an extended period of time about 10 years ago, he made his first trip to a local grocery store. As he got out of his car, he noticed a mother and daughter had finished unloading their groceries and the daughter was taking the cart back into the store. Being the swell guy that he is, he walked up to the girl and told he would take the cart back into the store for her. She began to freak out somewhat, upsetting Stevo. What Stevo didn't know was that in order to use a grocery cart at this store, you had to give the store a small cash deposit to use the cart and when you returned the cart, you received your deposit back (Any of you all that have shopped at Aldi's here in the states understand the system). I think that is one of his friends favorite stories from his stay in Germany. It still makes us chuckle.

Now, travel safe and have a great Thanksgiving (which is an event and not just a single day). I triple dog dare you!

3 comments:

RERC said...

Happy Thanksgiving Greg!
Becky Copeland

skippy said...

Thanks for telling the story, Greg. I love it and always have.

JPNtheHUN said...

Hey you! Pathetic weenie that I am I am sitting at my desk (dept closed at 2) waiting for the audio of the MD-SD game to start. Availalbe ONLY from the SD site--do not know what's the deal with MD not realizing how important it is to us addicts. And of course, no home games until 12/29--who designed that schedule?? Anyway, trying to stave off withdrawl. And it is really hard to listen to the enthusiasm of the opposing announcer...sigh.