Y'all can tell that I miss Trader Joe's & Whole Foods, huh? Here's a short story about it. I came up with the short story title back in Either August or September, around the time when my other phone got ruined. For about a month or 2, I've been wanting to write a short story about Trader Joe's. So, instead of 2 different short stories, I combined 2 ideas into 1. I hope you enjoy reading it.
(Trader Joe's Short Story)
Tafari Barrington made a BIG mistake. He didn't follow the advice to avoid shopping while hungry. He just got his work paycheck, but there was hardly any food in the house. He only had Wesson cooking oil, Hunt's tomato sauce & some old, stale, moldy bread in the cupboard. He also had an almost empty jar of Dollar General Clover Valley peanut butter. Probably 1/8 teaspoon of peanut butter left in there.
Tafari likes to go about the old fashioned way of doing things, such as going to the check cashing place, paying bills in person, talking on a landline phone & also mailing out postal letters. He can't even tell you what YouTube is. He generally can't afford television or cable. He rides an adult-sized tricycle to & from work. He still dresses like an 80's geek, wearing penny loafers, suspenders, overalls & a Jheri Curl.
But BOOOOOY does he love that Trader Joe's, though! Trader Joe's is pretty new school for him. When he goes, he loves to try the free samples. Today's free samples were Indian samosas & cheesy ranch chicken. He also enjoyed the coffee sample & the pomegranate mango pineapple mint smoothie.
Tafari went & HUNTED DOWN each item in the grocery aisles to buy for himself. In addition, he also stocked up on his favorites, since it's indefinite when he will be back. He's such a hard-working man. He was able to get some additional overtime hours, so he treated himself & splurged.
Tafari stocked up on items, such as the "Just the Clusters" vanilla almond, chocolate almond, maple pecan, ginger almond cashew, & also banana nut clusters cereal. He also bought 5 jars of virgin coconut oil, 2 jars of extra virgin olive oil, some pomegranate & also pumpkin flavored Trader Joe's brand of pop tarts, 21 seasoning salute, everything but the bagel seasoning, Thai red, green & yellow curry simmer sauce, maple leaf cookies, crispy rice milk chocolate bars, turkey pot pie, goat milk kefir, goat milk soap & a slew of other miscellaneous groceries. He spent over $400, so he was good for a nice while.
Once Tafari got back home, he was so hungry that he couldn't wait. He grabbed the quickest thing to eat. Pomegranate flavored pop tarts, washed down with a glass of the goat milk kefir as an afternoon snack, while dinner was cooking. He couldn't wait for the Thanksgiving seasonal turkey pot pie to come out of the oven. Once he had the pot pie, he also had a big salad & then he had the maple leaf cookies, for dessert, along with some of that smoothie. He earned it. He deserved it, working overtime hours for minimum wage. But he was grateful.
Tafari couldn't go to bed without a bowl of the chocolate almond clusters cereal with regular milk. He went to bed happy & satiated, fantasizing about when his next Trader Joe's trip might be.
THE END