may-i-help-you in making pasta! :D

yay! yesterday I went Pasta shopping! It was kinda cool.. I was jumping about the whole store.. and bugging all!
The store helpers were wearing shirts which had "May I help you" written at the back, and I found it quite funny.. :D
Some of them had actually NO IDEA whatsoever, as to what their store sold!!

me(to "may-i-help-you") - Hey, excuse me. Would you have sour cream?
may-i-help-you - Yes madam, shhhyoore madam, one minute madam! (the no. of times these people insert "madam" in their sentence, makes me feel like an old school teacher!!duh!)

Then she excitedly jumped out of her seat and started taking confident steps towards one end of the store. I began to follow her, with my huge hand basket, which was getting stuck at every corner, thanks to its extra ordinarily huge size!!
I was finally relieved to have found everything under one roof.. Barely had I opened my mouth to take a sigh of relief.. when I noticed myself standing infront of a huge shelf full of face creams and body lotions! And there she stood, gaping at me with her eyes wide open.. with immense gaeity!
To add insult to injury, I suddenly noticed her index finger pointing at the Garnier Wrinkle cream!! Quite taken aback, I pretended to look at the shelf for a lilttle longer than needed.. and then asked her, if she heard me right. .and that i had mentioned 'sour' cream.. and she nodded her head saying, "Yes Madam.. here is "sore" cream madam! "

"To hell with your Madam!! "-- I thought!
So one of the basic ingredients to make the Marinara was missing..I thought I could look for the cream elsewhewre.. when it struck me, that I hadnt bought Oregano too.
So I moved back to the food area.. and decided to look at things on my own.. thinking, that sooner or later I would find them.. It would save me an agonised mind, atleast!

SO I began looking in the very very elaborate spices section.. I located the weirdest of spices.. I hadnt even heard of!! things like Asafoetida, Bishops Weed, Cassia, Fenugreek and Rosemary -- they had eveything!!! Needless to say, I had gotten all excited by now.. but hard as I tried, I was not able to locate Oregano..

me (thinking) -- Hmm.. Looks like it is alphabetically arranged.. Umm. No no.. see I find cloves before chilly powder...
Ok,.. maybe it is according to popularity! Yeah.. see.. it is salt, chilly powder, cumin seeds .. .. yeah.. yeah... but hey! wait.. I see corainder in that distant corner.. ! No no..its not according to usage..
Hmm.. may be State wise...? Cardomom and pepper are majorly grown in Kerala.. So may be the states are arranged alphabetically.. ufff!!! no! I dotn know.. this is highly complicated!!
Thinking that I might never be able to locate my stuff.. I decided to ask one may-i-help-you around...

me -- hey, could you tell me where can I find Oregano?
may-i-help-you -- Yes madam! Come madam..

I drifted slowly in her direction to be able to get the 2nd thing on my list! She stopped by at a shelf.. turned around and gave me a huge smile - since she had done her job. I waited for her to move, so that i cud take a look at the shelf.. and duh!! what was that!! she had bought me to the 'Organic products' section!!!

Man!! this was too much for me to take.. I was beginning to feel like a birdbrain, who either did not know which store to go shopping for, or had no idea how to pronounce the ingredients...or may be I completely looked like someone from some pattikad who would never try making a pasta!!

My disappointment in the store and in my ability to ever procure all the iingredients, was soaring high! So, I decided to leave after picking up the big box of Real Fruit Juice!! (did i say i am crazy about it!! :)..)

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