On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> Julia Thompson schreef:
>
> > I'm a lot more impatient than I used to be, so being very impatient by
> > nature must mean you're INCREDIBLY impatient now, or at least that's my
> > extrapolation.
>
> Rather correct. I want everything done yesterday. And the less I'm
> able to do something correctly and swiftly the more I itch to get it
> done quicker. Not the right attitude. Sofar some buckets (alas with
> water in 'm) a screwdrivers, a pot of nails and a lot of other smaller
> stuff that didn't comply instantly according to my wishes already
> learned how to fly. Luckily no accidents yet. I know, temper temper
> and I should know better. I'm working on it. But with the impatience
> to get things done also my temper becomes more of an issue. It's so
> very frustrating. Another good fortune in light of my temper is that
> Jeroen's puter is just too heavy to lift.... ;o)
I haven't been throwing anything. Well, that's not exactly true. The
other night, as I was heading for the bathroom in the middle of the night,
I stepped on a piece of rawhide that one of the dogs had so thoughtfully
left in my path. I picked it up and chucked it away. I don't know if the
dog has found it yet. (If not, we'll find it when we finish tidying and
organizing in the bedroom. She doesn't deserve to have that piece of
rawhide any sooner if she's going to put it someplace where I'll step on
it in the dark.)
> > Shopping is getting just a little harder each week. I
> > might have to tell Dan that he has to buy the cans of soda for the rest of
> > the pregnancy sometime soon.
>
> I found a compromise to that. I get someone from the shop to lift the
> things. On the parking lot I look for an unsuspecting victim to lift
> them into the car. Sofar this works very well. Just takes a bit more
> time to get it done. But my back thanks me for it.
I sometimes have a hard time finding a store employee to help me.
Sometimes I end up asking another customer to help; most people are quite
willing. (And I've done it for other people before. No big deal, IF
there's someone to help.)
> > My biggest problem while shopping is that they put things that I want up
> > on high shelves. One of these days, I'm going to have to leave the cart
> > in the middle of an aisle and go up to the customer service desk and ask
> > for a store employee to help me, if a tall person doesn't come along soon
> > enough.
>
> Isn't that what shop employees are for. At least sofar I've managed to
> get the help I think I should have. So I don't reach and I don't lift
> during shopping. And I get Jeroen to unpack the heavy things from the
> car for me. (See I'm improving) Shops where this kind of service (when
> necessary) isn't provided instantanously I simply don't go or leave
> the product on the shelve and get it somewhere else. Simple as that.
> One of our local supermarkets even offers the service to pack and
> transport your shoppings to and into your car. I think I might start
> to use that offer soon. And since the service is calculated into the
> prices anyway, I might as well use it. :o)
The sitting in the aisle is to get their attention in the first place. :)
I've had some really bad luck on that sort of thing before. And I figure
that sitting down is a lot less harmful to people around me than if, say,
I were to start throwing things up to try to knock down what it is I can't
reach.
At the grocery stores where I shop, someone will help load the stuff into
your car. The cashier is supposed to offer to get someone to do that, and
usually they do; but there was one time I had to ask when I needed it.
Right now, if I have just a few bags and they're small and not heavy, I
figure I can handle it myself; but if there's a lot of stuff, or they've
loaded the bags into the cart in such a way that it's going to be awkward
for me to maneuver the cart (why doesn't anyone understand that you want
the center of gravity of the shopping cart to be further back and not
further forward?), or if there's something specifically heavy that I want
someone else to load into the car (and for Dan to get out of the car after
I get home with it), I accept the help gratefully. The one time recently
that I could have used the help and didn't ask for it, I had someone else
along who *could* manage it all for me.
Julia
