Today I started my annual tradition of making lots of candy to give as Christmas gifts and to share with people.  The first step (after cleaning my kitchen that is) is buying all the ingrediants.  So I go to the store today to buy everything and I of course get comments from the clerk about how she’d love to be at my party, etc.  Then of course she asked – so are you making this or your wife.  I politely answered her and said I was and she said something about how that is good.  Which made me wonder, if a woman had been checking out would the clerk ask if it was her or her husband who was making the candy.  I’m sure it wouldn’t have happened.  Oh well – keeps my life interesting!

Also, grocery store baggers sure could use some training.  The one working at the checkout I used today sure was slow and didn’t pack things good at all.  Most of the bags could have had more put in them and wasn’t put in good at all – most bags were tippsy.  The clerk also helped bag at the end and she asked me if she could put a lot in a bag or would it be too heavy.  I said put a lot.  She did a bit better than the bagger but still could have had more without causing any problems for me.