I'm not alone this time!
By reinydawn
@reinydawn (11642)
United States
December 7, 2008 9:22pm CST
Oh, this was a definitely a smack me on the head I am so stupid moment! But, I wasn't alone so I didn't feel as stupid as I should have.
Yesterday I went to the store to buy the rest of the stuff I needed to make up cookies for the cookie exchange this week. I love the kind that my mom always makes, I've never had anything like them before. So, I'm in the store (not my normal grocery store btw) and I get the cream cheese then head to the baking aisle to get the sugar, flour, food coloring, and red and green sprinkles. I came across the sprinkles first and was about to get them when all I saw were the red ones, no green sprinkles. I figured well, maybe they're with the holiday stuff so I keep looking. I go down the entire aisle, looking at EVERY thing there. I saw no green sprinkles. So I go back to the red ones and know that if I stare at the red ones long enough then the green ones will appear. I mean, c'mon, they HAVE to have green sprinkles! Well, apparently this girl standing beside me was thinking the same thing and probably after a minute of looking, I reach up to see if maybe the green are behind the red, and the girl goes "Oh!" and when I look down, we're practically standing on this basket in the aisle - it's actually in our way - that has TONS of green sprinkles in it! How we could have both overlooked it I have no clue. I mean we had to walk around it - I did twice - to try to look on the shelf.
Yeah, we felt a bit stupid, but it was fun laughing about it! I have no idea why the store was hiding the green ones!!!
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8 responses
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
8 Dec 08
Hey reiny! That's funny! I know that I've had plenty of those
kinds of moments in the grocery store aisles! I swear I do
think the same way! Like if you stand there long enough
whatever it is you are looking for will magically appear! And
sometimes it does! I was looking for Cinnamon Sticks right
before Thanksgiving. I looked everywhere and couldn't find
them. I was in the right place in the spice aisle. Then
another woman came and was looking for them too. We were both
really upset because we wanted them for our Apple Cider! So
we asked the Produce Guy and he looked and couldn't find them
either. So we both left the aisle upset. I was about one aisle
away and the Produce Guy found me and gave me a bottle of
Cinnamon Sticks! He had found them somehow! They were there
all along, but the three of us looked and didn't see them
anywhere! So I know what you mean! Glad you found the green
sprinkles. Now can you pm me that recipe! I would love to
try to bake those cookies! I haven't made Christmas cookies
in years and I don't have any recipes! If they aren't too
hard to make I will try to do them! And I won't really know
if I screw them up since I don't really know what they are
supposed to taste like!
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
8 Dec 08
Actually, the recipe is very simple, but you do need a cookie press. The old-fashioned kind that turns works better than the ones that have the squeeze trigger on them (but they do work). I'll pm you if you're not having problems with the pm - did they get that fixed for ya???
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
8 Dec 08
Oh no! I don't have any cookie presses! I never baked any
cookies to press! I can get some, but they won't be anything
like you describe! I've seen those kinds that you just push
in the dough. Is that ok? I can get PM's, I just can't
send them! I have your addy, as long as it's still the same,
in case I have some questions! I'll be going shopping on Friday
so let me know what I need! I would love to bake this weekend!
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@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I kind of agree with Transdisc. I think they did it just so you could make a post in this interest today.*L*
I hate when I can't find something, then someone comes in right behind me, reaches over and picks it right up. I usually do a mental head smack at that point, pick up whatever it is, drop it in my basket and try not to be too obvious about the fact that I couldn't find what was right in front of my face.
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I was getting ready to go to another store! It was so funny that we had to about fall over them to find them. You know the security people are going to have fun with that tape :)
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I've done thinhgs along this line myself.
The item was not where you expected it so you did not look on the floor for it.
I stared in my fridge in the past for butter. Well duhhh look inm the tray marked butter dummy. 
I do this often even looking for milk. I glance right past it beause it isn't where I put it the last time I used it so there wasn't any in the fridge as far as I could see. HAHAHA! Just 2 examples of my "blindness."
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
I do this often even looking for milk. I glance right past it beause it isn't where I put it the last time I used it so there wasn't any in the fridge as far as I could see. HAHAHA! Just 2 examples of my "blindness."
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~2 people like this
@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
9 Dec 08
I do that all the time! And I know it's in there, I'm usually staring right at it too...
@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
18 Dec 08
That is a time when you could not see the forest for the trees. heehee. They say if it was a snake it would have bitten you. I say to them if it was a snake I would have seen it.
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
18 Dec 08
I hope I would have seen a snake! (But you never really know some times...
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
28 Dec 08
No you never really know do you?
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@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
10 Dec 08
Well at least your cookies turned out beautiful. What I really hate is going through the whole thing you went through, then ask an employee where the item is and find I passed it 3 times while I was looking. It just didn't make sense that it would be where it was! 
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
11 Dec 08
Thanks! These are my favorite cookies :)
I did the same thing for my Thanksgiving turkey. I looked and looked and looked. Then I asked the guy if they had any 20 lb turkeys and he pointed to the closest one in front of me. Yeah, I felt like an idiot!
@hildas (3031)
•
8 Dec 08
Yeah they must of been hiding them as the staff need them for their cookie exchanges too and where not putting them on the selves.
Well you missed them as you would never really expect them to be on the floor. I am glad you got what you where looking for in the end and I hope your cookie exchange goes well. Happy cookie making.
@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
9 Dec 08
Thanks :)
What's really sad though is I didn't really need either red or green sprinkles because I had plenty at home! I didn't check before I went to the store so I was buying it just in case. Now it'll sit until I make cookies again - a couple more years!
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
11 Dec 08
I wonder how many people didn't see it at all and went somewhere else for them? That coulda been a costly mistake.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
9 Dec 08
No, you are not alone, I do that all the time..My daughter makes fun of me because I am always asking her to help me find something that I should be able to find myself, but always I over look it..
@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
11 Dec 08
It's funny because you just know it's there, why can't you see it?? That drives me crazy!
