I am Man...

... see me search pathetically for stock cubes!

Today I managed to get up before it got dark again, which is a major step forward. I needed a few things from the shops so instead of taking my car and assisting the destruction of the environment. I decided to have a walk as I am in desperate need of some exercise. So I walked to near by Super-Multi-Mega Store (SMMS) which destroys the environment.

On my way there I stopped by my local dealer for 50 grammes of extra hot dried chillies. It is good stuff, a few of them in a chili con carny and you can guarantee your head will sweat.

At the SMMS I got a packet of lentils and a packet of Scotch Broth mix as it is winter and it is time for soup making. At this point I remembered that I needed to buy some stock (bouillon) cubes. Now I usually expect to find stock cubes around where the jars of herbs and spices are or where the gravy granule's are kept but could I find them? Well no, as it happens.

So I start my search pattern, going up and down the rows until I reach the dairy section or the hard goods, nothing. Of course it had now become a 'thing' I must find them and I must do it without assistance mainly because I too scared to ask in case I am told "they are right behind you mate".

Passing the 'Fantastic Sale Offers' or as I would think it would be more honest to title 'Christmas Crap We Couldnae Shift', for the third time I noticed copies of Instant Confidence by Paul McKenna

Now some Instant Confidence is what I could use at this point and more especially when I get to the checkout and my IQ does it usual 100 point dip. However unlike the Super-Multi-Mega Book Shops that destroy the environment this sort of store is not happy about you sitting down in the aisle and reading books. From the infamous 'Duck a l'Orange Incident' I know they don't like you trying out their recipe books with produce from the shop unless you have actually bought the book and ingredients and taken them home first.

So without Mr McKenna's assistance I check throughly all the shelves around me several times and I am at least 50% confident that the stock cubes are not lying in wait to embarrass me and I ask a member of staff stocking a fridge where the stock cubes are. The answer was 'in the far corner of the shop above the freezers'. Of course I should have remembered that in shops with open top freezers the stock cube take up residence there.

Okay I am off to write to the Stock Cube manufactures to point out that their products are not actually cubes.