Preparing for holiday events, I shopped at Vons to choose my adult beverages. In the check out line, the woman ahead of me, in her 30’s, had a large bag of Reese’s Pieces. The woman behind me, in her 60’s had 3 cartons of ice cream. And then there was me with my bottle of champagne and 2 bottles of red wine.
This line up of multi-aged women with the assortment of “not food” struck me as curious. I wanted to think there was some interesting story in each of our purchases beyond shopping for a holiday event. If I were a fiction writer, I would imagine what brought us all in this coincidental line and where we would go with each of our purchases.
We could have had one heck of a party together.
