Author's Note- HELP WANTED! Now that I hopefully have your attention, let me explain my current dilemma. 50 Apps Every State Needs is rapidly coming to a close. This fact is sad, because honestly, it has been a really, really fun story to write but from the beginning I was only planning on highlighting 50 apps. The sadness of a story ending is tempered by the fact that 50 Apps' sister story The Games We Play just went online yesterday. This story has a similar premise; it is series of loosely related one-shot around a theme. In the case of The Games We Play, the premise is to have a bunch of stories about various combinations of countries playing popular games and I would be delighted to hear your ideas about what countries you want to be spotlighted or what games you think would be fun to focus on. If you have an idea feel free to drop a review either here or for The Games We Play, or of course, shot me a PM. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Now that that has been taken care of it is totally time for the shout outs. Thank you to EverythingMath, BloodyLily16, and saoirsewolf for reading, enjoying and reviewing. Your feedback really does mean a lot.
Disclaimer- I do not own Hetalia, or Apple, or Grocery Gadget…in fact I don't even use an app for my grocery lists. Pen and paper has always been more of my style.
Grocery Gadget
In Virginia's opinion Labor Day was the most American holiday. Some states might argue that it was the 4th of July, but while America celebrated its independence in style lots of other countries also through big national parties for their nation's birthdays. Other states might argue that perhaps it was Black Friday, but while the phenomenon was distinctly American it was difficult for Virginia to lower herself to call Black Friday an actual holiday. For these reasons Virginia had made up her mind that Labor Day was the most American holiday of the year.
It really didn't matter that the idea for Labor Day happened to be Canadian, over the years the holiday had managed to absorb all of the traits of Americanness. It was a day of barbequing and picnics. One of the last moments where everyone went outside and soaked up the last of the summer rays while swimming, playing sports, or just getting a tan. Then there was the fact that Labor Day was theTo add to
The second most important sales weekend of the entire year, which of course meant Virginia needed to make a shopping trip to take advantage of all of the sales.
The grocery store was buzzing with people taking advantage of the one day sales or picking up last minute items for parties later that evening. Virginia was humming quietly to herself was enjoying the energy of the crowd. It had become a tradition that she would throw a barbeque to celebrate the last day of summer. Usually it just involved a few hot dogs and burgers on the grill, but this year Wyoming was crashing at America's house while things got sorted out so Virginia was determined to make sure that her western brother felt welcome.
Wyoming's current ill health was the reason that Virginia was currently cruising the butchers' area of the store looking for the perfect steaks. She finally settled on a stack of juicy looking T-bones and clicked open her iPad to mark down the item on her shopping list. She was just about to click the tablet closed and when something caught her eye. Something was wrong with her list…there wasn't any salad. That was odd, she could have swore that that one of the first items that she had up loaded on it. Oh, well, she thought. It was an easily enough fix.
She added bag of salad greens back to her shopping list and headed off to thecontinued through the condiment aisle.
She was trying to decide whether her siblings would enjoy the stone ground or the spicy mustard better when her iPad chirped again. When she flipped open the tablet she discovered that her grocery list had once again been updated. This time not only was the salad greens missing but the carrots had also been deleted and beer nuts and deep-fried pig skin had been put in their places.
By this point Virginia was getting pretty frustrated. She had put a lot of thought into making up that grocery list. She had considered everyone dietary preferences and needs so that there would been a healthy option for everyone. Now the person on the other side of her app was messing with her plan. Virginia took a deep breath and tried to put everything in perspective. Today was a holiday. It was a day that was supposed to be focused on family and loving your family sometimes meant you compromised and bought junk food in addition to your five a day.
She had finally talked herself down when her iPad chirped again. When she finally had steeled herself to look at her grocery list she just about fainted. There was not a fruit nor a vegetable left on the list. Instead anything on the list that was even remotely healthy had been replaced by polar opposite item. There were tubs of ice cream and litters of soda, potato chips and spray can cheese, bags of M&M's and boxes of Twinkies. There was even a listing for Twizzlers, the chocolate kind that totally tasted more like plastic then chocolate.
Staring at the travesty that was her former shopping list, there was only one thing left for Virginia to do. Call the source of all of her woes. The phone went straight to voicemail but that didn't keep the Mother of States from venting her frustration on the answering machine.
"Alfred, if you don't stop messing with my grocery list I promise that I will make your life a living Hell when I get home."
America failed to take her threat seriously, but Virginia kept her word. So instead of manning the grill at the dinner party the nation was stuck with his two least favorite jobs, washing the dishes and taking out the trash.
End Note- I hope that you get a great sale next time you go grocery shopping, and while I have your attention have you thought of any game yet. ;)