Sherlock
I reached into my pocket to find the list of things we needed that John gave me before I left the flat. It read:
-Milk
-Beans
-Toilet roll
-Tea bags
-Peppers
-Cereal
-Bread
-Butter
Choose some meals that you like! You're so fussy!
~John
I crunched the paper up and put it back in my coat pocket. I didn't understand why John suddenly got so pissed off when I said that little comment about him entertaining me. Why did he suddenly want me to go shopping? It didn't seem very fair. I looked so stupid carrying this pathetic basket around, not knowing where I was suppose to be going. I didn't even know my way around this stupid shop! Where was I supposed to find Toilet roll?
I was pondering over this in my head when my phone vibrated in my pocket. A text from John.
Could you get a vacuum cleaner? We don't have one!
Mrs Hudson has a terrible cold. I went upstairs to borrow
her hoover.
John
I glared at the text. Great. Another thing to get. Right now I was in the vegetable section. I managed to find the peppers and beans that were on the list, but I had no idea where to go next. John would laugh at me and say "Sherlock Holmes, beaten by a supermarket". No way is that happening I thought to myself. I looked around and saw a man dressed in bright green and black trousers. Obviously works here then. I saw him carrying a trolley full of things he needed to put on shelves. I skimmed the trolley until I saw something on John's list. Toilet roll, I spotted. I followed the man but keeping my distance so it wasn't obvious I was following him.
The shop was so crowded with mothers and kids and scruffy teenagers, I just wanted to shove them all out of my way but I knew I would probably get kicked out if I did that. So, I continued to follow the man until he took me to the toilet roll shelf. I grabbed the first packet I saw and shoved it in the basket. I walked down the aisle and saw nothing else I needed so I moved onto the next aisle.
How boring shopping is. How does John cope?
After about half an hour, I managed to get everything that was on the list and felt rather pleased with myself as I knew John would be surprised. He better of cleaned the flat spotless by the time I got back. I bet he would be sitting in his armchair reading a book or something.
I went to queue up to pay, when I realised that John normally talks about having rows with the 'do it yourself' cash point machine things so I decided to that too. Besides, I couldn't be bothered to talk to people and the people who help you pack on the other ones always have to speak to you and ask stupid questions like, "How are you?" or "Have a good day at work?".
They are just incredibly annoying and unnecessary questions in my opinion. Besides, they don't actually care they are just trying to make conversation.
I could see what John meant about these machines, they really were annoying. The voice that instructed you went on and on and it was quite loud. I managed to get out of there finally after a few minutes. As soon as I was out of the supermarket and breathing the London air in again, I felt surprisingly relieved.
Who knew that a supermarket could interrogate me so much?
…...
I shut the door behind me quite loud to let John know I was back. I was looking forward to the look on his face when he saw how well I had done with the shopping.
"Back are we?" I heard him say.
And just as I had predicted, he was sitting in his armchair reading a book.
"So let's see how you've done" He said putting his book down.
I gave him all the bags and he emptied everything out onto the coffee table.
"Right, you've got the beans, the peppers, the tea bags, the toilet roll, the milk, the cereal, the bread the butter and…"
John stopped and put his head in his hands.
"What? What could I have possibly forgotten? I was so thorough!"
"You haven't forgotten anything Sherlock. You just got the wrong hoover that's all. I asked for the small one, you know the one without two parts? But I have to say, by my standards you did pretty well"
"I should think so! I am never doing that again!"
I turned to face John and just saw him chuckle and give his wry smile before taking the shopping into the kitchen, and putting everything away.
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