10% tuesday

Note: I would advise chiropactors (like any visit here) or other people who are concerned about the spine and body, not read this post. but i encourage those who will appreciate my manliness to read it.
So today is Feb 1, and you know what that means, 10% off groceries like everywhere. i usually miss the first tuesday but i could it this week. so on the way home from school (after i eventually got there) i stopped by the Safeway that is only like 10 blocks out of my way. There is a little grocery store near my house but it doesnt have really good selection so i occationaly hit the Safeway or the other IGA nearby to get different stuff or good deals. i have to say now that im really not a big fan of the Safeway clubcard. It is just a way to track what people buy. the one good thing about it though is that for 2 weeks, i won 10% off all grocery purchases. that was kinda cool. stupid marketing campains that work (shakes fist). But the other thing i like about the club card is after you purchases there is like the "this is what you would pay if you were just an 'ordinary' person" and then they swipe your card and all these numbers flash up and the money counts down til you get to the "you are in the club, this is your sweet price". so today im wondering around the store, i figure i will just go up and down every ilse and that way i shouldnt forget anything. So i start in the meat section and work my way over. now, since i have to carry everything home i know better than to get a cart, carts hold alot more than i can. So it turns out that almost everything i need to buy is on the half of the store near the meat section. so im loading up my little basket and after a while I am accually worried it might break. the last 3 or so items i had to carry because they wouldnt fit in the basket. and i ended skipping all the cleaning/bathroom supplies isles because i didnt think i need anything from them, and my basket was really heavy. So i stand in line at it is moving VERY SLOW. but anyway eventually i get to the front and the lady starts the scanning and stuff. so we get to the end and it is nearly 100 dollars. wow. but then the card swipe. goes down to about 76 or so im like, thats pretty good. but wait so some reason, it goes down some more, so like 73ish. im like nice. THEN the lady is like ok, now the 10%. BAM, another 7 something off. so i end up paying like 65. i "saved" like 25 dollars. so that was all good but i was really dreading the walk home (cuz im still an estimated 12 blocks from home). So i pick up the first bag off the counter, and im like oh no. so i go to the store entrance/exit and put a couple of bags into my backpack. and head off with 2 bags in each hand and 2 on my back in my backpack. and of course the groceries seems heavy like 2 blocks away from the store . and there is also the one thing you forget and you remember like one block away. and in this case i remembered another one at about 3 blocks, i feel special. So the whole way home, if i saw an intersection i would be like, for example, 106th, 5 over 4 down, 9 blocks 9 blocks. And then i got to an intersection that seems close to my house, but then figure out that it is really only like half way, crap. so about at this half way mark, i have this great idea that when i get home, weigh myself to see how much weight I am carrying. so that is what i do. i get home, go to the bathroom and hop on the scale. 210 and change. i was carrying 1/3 of my body weight!! and i didnt even have any textbooks or my binder (which i just weighed at about 7 or 8 pounds and it is only like 3 weeks into school, just wait til april) . mostly groceries. Then i figure that next time im just going to buy a 50 pound ant and then the ant can carry me home with no problem. Ya, then i decided i needed sour cream for my tacos, so i ran, accually ran, to the store 4 blocks away. lets just say im not in my prime. it wasnt painful but if i had run much farther it woulda been. im in lousy shape. well thats about all for now. enjoy savings,
Ian