H and I had a really fun midnight trip to Tesco the other night for beer, sponges and disinfectant. We really enjoyed people watching to see who else shops at that hour on a Monday night. Thankfully we had a hot pizza to eat the car before going into the store; otherwise we might have missed the dozen or so loitering ‘almost 18s’ who were waiting for the 18 year old friends to exit the store with booze / already drinking with their 18 year old friends in the parking lot. Awesome way to make me feel young again.
We also enjoyed the older man checking out behind us with a shopping cart overflowing with potato chips and ramen. Seriously? I think we can all guess what he had been doing earlier that evening. Then there were the people picking up soda and chocolate, probably on the way to their own night shifts, not so entertaining. Lastly, we had the twenty something year old couple who appeared to actually be doing their weekly shopping trip. That was fairly depressing; I almost went over to them to remind them that Tesco does deliver. H may or may not have accidentally thwacked one of them with our shopping basket though so I felt it was better to keep my distance.
All I can say is that Tesco > Carrefour for late night grocery shopping. Carrefour was always out of milk late at night but Tesco was fully stocked. The real trump card though is that unlike Qatar’s Carrefour, Tesco sells all kinds of alcohol. Now if only the beer was refrigerated, late night grocery shopping would have the potential to be the perfect date night.
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