Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Big lesson #2

Beautiful cloudless cool but windy day today.  The storms from yesterday came with total clearing behind them.  
We had decided that we'd go eat breakfast at the closest restaurant to us, so we walked there this morning.  Ehh, the breakfast was ok.  One egg, one slice of bacon, one sausage, one little round of blood sausage (which I didn't eat - Guillermo to the rescue!), one tomato, some pork-and-bean type beans and toast.  The egg, tomato, toast and bacon were fine - the rest, well, not so much.  But we had wanted to try the place and we did.  So now we know.
After breakfast we walked over to the little grocery store to buy some bread and wine.  We placed one loaf of bread in a sleeve and were about to pay when I decided to go ahead and get another sleeve and get one more loaf of bread.  I placed this loaf in the sleeve and then lifted the sleeve up to make the bread go down into it and as I did, the bread went down and slid out the bottom of the sleeve onto the floor!!!  Guillermo was with the checkout guy waiting for me, and I picked up the loaf of bread and looked at them both with a look of, "What do I do now???"  I was floored when the check out guy said I could just put that loaf in with the other loaf we were buying.  What???  The thing was just on the floor!!!  But no matter - like it was no big deal, we placed that floor loaf in with the other loaf, paid and went on our way.
I'm pretty sure in the states they would have said, "Oh here,  give me that, I'll throw it away and you go get you another one".
At home, we took both loaves and scraped them off as best we could.  Still, the idea is not appealing at all.
Lesson learned?  When putting a loaf of bread in a sleeve, do it OVER the bread bin, not over the floor.  

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