Woke a little early and went to bed for a bit of a nap. I took my pills grabbed a cup of coffee and checked in with my fellow hams.
No Margarita’s today, just writing E-Mails about yesterday’s church service.
It took us eight hours to stand it up and tear it down, I was exhausted!
I spent a good part of this morning documenting the equipment that was being used. I had three boiled eggs and breakfast sausages for breakfast this morning.
We had left over turkey breast for lunch with sweet potatoes and frozen veggies, it was quite delicious. We took a good nap afterwards. It was also a beautiful day today, so we drove to the park to check out the pavilion’s tables.
A couple of them were moved, but mostly they are where they were yesterday.
We had sandwiches for dinner and watched a little TV before the 2M net at 7:30. I checked in with them and turned off the 2M radio again.
Measured my Glucose, it was a little high after drinking grape juice and crackers.
Off to bed.
Tuesday
Challenging day, I got up around 8AM and checked in with the HAM radio guys. I spent a little while researching Peter’s request for an inventory before our 9:30 meeting. We laid out a timeline to get a nap, groceries, dinner at Zaxby’s and arrive home. That plan went well until we got to Kroger. On the way out of Kroger we were behind three other people trying to get past the grocery carts that were piled up at the exit door. The poor guy in the front was on a handicap buggy and it wouldn’t fit in the space they left at the door. For whatever reason they totally filled the vestibule with carts all the way to the other wall. There was no room to pull a cart from the long rows of buggies. After they moved a couple carts out of the way we all piled out of Kroger. I went back in and asked for a manager, the cashier pointed to a women counting the cash at the safe. (I know better than to bother anyone at the safe.) I went back to the Kroger vestibule and started moving carts out of the exit lane. About three carts later I hear an employee yelling at me saying something on the order that Kroger will take care of the carts. I got the impression that she was the one that piled all of the carts in that area. I asked her why she was yelling at me and again she said something to the tune that Kroger will take care of the carts. A man walked up behind me and asked why I was yelling at that young employee instead of walking over to her and having a conversation. I started walking toward the female employee that was about 30 feet from me and then I just stopped. She could take my approach as threatening and then I would be in trouble. I asked her to come over and I would explain the situation with the carts. I maintained a safe distance and then told her that the exit doors cannot have anything blocking our exit from the store. It’s a fire code requirement. We then exited the store and went to get our zalads for lunch.
It was emotional to be yelled at for clearing the exit of a business. She should have helped me or gone to her supervisor before confronting me. Buggies are customers to use as we like, they are provided to facilitate our purchases through the store. It’s absurd to confront a customer about moving carts around the store entrance by yelling at him.