Day 74: Sainsbury's Shenanigan

(This is for Sunday 9 November)

Another rainy day on Sunday, I decided to mainly stay in to get work done that I hadn't had time for between getting completely soaked in the rain and the concert the day before.

However, I did go out to the Sainsbury's grocery store down the road with one of my roommates. I finished checking out before my roommate, so I decided to look at some of the sale items at the front of the store. I was really just killing time, but decided to pick up a large jar of instant coffee just to read the label.

When I picked up the jar (carefully, mind you) this somehow set into motion the whole of the jar pile on the shelf, causing me to react quickly to save them by throwing my body and arms in front of the shelf.

However, this then caused my bags of groceries around my wrists to slam into the shelf below, which contained... wine.

Somehow only one or two bottles fell off and broke on the floor between the checkout area and myself. At this point everyone was just staring, watching this bizarre incident unfold on what should be an uneventful Sunday trip for groceries.

I'm standing there in shock, still pressed up against the shelves with all of my limbs, when finally someone who worked at Sainsbury's comes over to try to save anything else from falling. We try to figure out how I can leave the shelf without anything else falling, but a container of coffee falls off and crashes to the floor, thousands of instant coffee speckles immersed in the wine.

I quickly said some kind of half apology/half defense something like, "I'm so sorry - all I did was touch one container of coffee and everything fell!! I'm sorry!" and as soon as someone told me it was okay, that it wasn't my fault, I bolted out in sheer shock and embarrassment.

I hid behind a large pillar to wait for my roommate and so no one could see me from inside.

Perhaps this is some kind of indicator for my true moral sense (should I have stayed inside to help clean?) or perhaps Sainsbury's just needs someone new to stack the sale items in a less idiotic way.

Either way, I tried something new at Sainsbury's that day.