Today I went grocery shopping in the super store. I also got some non-grocery items, so I was in various parts of the store. Away I went with my grocery cart, all over the store.
Eventually, I happened upon a store employee standing there in the aisle with a long push broom. She looked at me and said, "Do you have rice?"
I was mightily puzzled and answered, "
"What do you mean?"
I looked down and there on the floor was a trail of rice, emanating from my cart! I had bought a bag of rice many aisles ago, (which obviously had a hole in it) and it had left a trail everywhere I had been. I was mortified.
The employee said, "We've been looking for you everywhere!" I'm sure they had! How many aisles and trails of rice they had to follow and sweep, I cannot imagine. I was very apologetic indeed, and felt terrible for them, chasing my rice trails!
The two on the search both ended up where I was, relieved to find the culprit. When I apologized, they just laughed saying, "We were just afraid you would get to checkout and not have any rice!" I gave them my culprit bag, and went and got another, making sure there was no hole in the bag this time.
This surely reminded me of the Hansel and Gretel story, and laying
the bread trail.
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