SOL25-1028

I saw this cartoon.
The truth of it made me laugh.
So I posted it to social media and wrote, “LOL So true!’

To which my friend responded: “I must go back for the list.”

To which I replied with a long narrative. (It became the draft of this post.)

Part I.

Carl does most of our grocery shopping (a habit he picked up when I traveled for work and he continued in my long recovery from surgery), . . . but I write the List.

He forgets the List.

He calls me and I tell him the List.

But the List is long, so he asks me to text the List. Sometimes I send a snapshot of the List he forgot.

Then there will follow a couple phone calls about brands on the List because the store is out of the one we like. Or perhaps the store has “good looking asparagus” or some such thing not on the List.

Sometimes there’s even an exchange of pictures of items on the List. I remember the time when the peanut butter had its usual label, but the usual blue lid was now gold. He sent a picture. And then there are those unforgettable times when I dig through the recycle bin to retrieve the can or jar to send him a picture because I can’t remember.

Part II.

He returns, and with an air of accomplishment, sets his bags on our kitchen table.

I unload the bags.
Some things on the List are missing.
Most of the time, there are things that were not on the List.

Pondering, Why do I write the List?

Part III.

The List. It’s one of our amusing pastimes.

Just wondering, Do you make the List? What happens to your List?

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