Grocery-shopping

Our timing is different.  I am a fast grocery shopper.  My husband is slow… to me… incredibly slow. 

So we divided it up.  I went shopping one time, he went the next.   It only seemed expedient.  Of course it seemed expedient … to me:  the fast shopper.   I would like to point out here that we differ in our eating speeds as well.  Here it is the opposite:  I am slow, and he is fast.  

In the last year I have had the challenge/privilege of not being able to drive.  So my husband and I have had to coordinate and tolerate and acclimate to one another*s tempo in a range of ways.  I have just begun to drive again.  We have begun to get accustomed to this new/old order of things.  We have also begun to do our grocery shopping together.  Each of us sees and remembers different things we need. The people-watching is amazing in grocery stores, and so much better when it is shared.  He still shops too slowly for me.  I am still a fast shopper.  It is not expedient.  I have newly realized that perhaps expediency is not the primary goal.  My husband?  He would have preferred all along that we shopped together.

Consider this:

What*s your speed?  Where are you leaving others in the dust?  Particularly loved ones?  For example: Do you leave enough time when you ask a question for the other to answer?

Conversely, when you are left in the dust, do you speak up?  I was often left putting on my coat in the restaurant while my husband and daughter were out the door... until I stopped them, that is.  It*s never too late to figure out new ways of doing things.  Grocery shopping, for example, is a lot more fun now.