Going to the store
A funny thing happened at the store. Well it actually happened in the shower, the funny part. Jean-Jacques, Copper, and I went to LidL in Le Bugue. It is a sort of discount store with damaged goods, no jokes please. Brand name things but slight damaged at discount prices. I think, maybe there is more to the store. We were looking for shampoo and liquid body soap, among other things. We found some inexpensive stuff that looked like it would be pretty good.
The next morning in the shower, who am I fooling, it was afternoon, I am jetlagged after all, I was happily washing my hair. Then I squeezed some soap out of the tube on my washcloth to wash my body. I thought it was strange that it didn’t lather up well. I put more on the washcloth. Still no lather. I thought, boy the water here in Le Buisson sure is hard. I’ve heard that hard water doesn’t lather but what do I know. I put still more soap on the wash cloth. Then I thought, read the bottle, you can read French. Lotion de corps, it was not liquid body soap but simply lotion and I had heaped it on a washcloth and covered every inch of my body by now.
Standing in the shower I was afraid to move because I was like a wet slippery seal. Carefully I used the shampoo, yes that was shampoo, to scrub the lotion off my skin. When it was safe to move I hopped out of the tub, got dressed, and felt my oh so smooth skin under my clothes. I guess it could have been worse.
Did you happen notice that it’s American month at Lidl? I haven’t checked it out yet, but apparently they have all kinds of American products, like dried cranberries, pecans, pancake mix, etc!!
I’m not sure about American month but it sure is British month, I heard more English than French. We’ll go back and look though, I think iti s about 5 minutes of a drive fro, the house.
I asked about American month but no one seemed to know. I wasn’t at a Lidl but jst around town. We’ll go sometime next week. I wonder if it is part of the “warm up to America” plan of Sarkozy.
I went to Lidl today in Le Bugue after the market. I didn’t see any signs or extra American products, but I forgot to ask. We came to the conclusion Lidl is like Costco or BJ’s. Good for some things, toilet paper, trash bags, household things, but a lot of food related things were just so so. Why settle for so so when you can have incredible food at incredible prices.