Hi Kathleen, we do have the law out here in California, where you have to pay
ten cents per bag if you want one, and they even have the nerve to ask you,
after you've gotten so much that you can't carry, if you need a bag. I don't
do much shopping, because in 1978, I had an experience with safeway that I will
never forget. I had typed out my list, and was as specific as I know how to be
when writing a list, and I went to the safeway store, at a time, when there
were few people in the store, and when I walked up to customer service, the
girl said that it wasn't their responsability to help me shop, and that I would
have to bring a friend to help me shop. I told the girl, that at San Pablo,
where I lived before, they always helped me shop, and she said, that was san
pablo, this is Berkeley, and that experience crushed my spirit so much as a
blind person, that I then vowed, I'd never shop again, because if we as blind
people can't do the minimal things of basic human survival, then, what can we
do, according to standards of sight? I then, after deciding to eat out once a
day, until the money ran out, then went to all the free meals I heard about,
and ate there. I am trying to shop again, but I only buy what I need for that
week, and a few of any given item, so as not to burden the person helping, by
filling up one of those hand baskets, but sometimes, sighted people can be down
right insensitive toward us, and I don't know how to successfully fight against
that, without my spirit being crushed to some degree.
Marty
On Feb 18, 2017, at 4:33 AM, Kathleen Polkabla wrote:
You're right most people in New York City don't have cars number one because
it cost too much to park them. I'm in the parking garage is are very
expensive. Most people walk or take the subway. If you need a car you can
rent one for a while. Then you just turn it back in. Yeah I think the grocery
stores out your way did miss the mark because I don't think about blind
people and elderly people that I've given up their licenses so they don't
drive anymore. Yeah I agree with you they have missed the mark. Honestly they
really have your stores out there don't deliver. But I'm not sure if they're
going to be charging for plastic bags. That was a lot passed hear that if you
wanted plastic bags you had to pay $.10 a bag or by the reusable ones. I
don't know if that past but I heard it didn't and then I heard it did. Oh
well we'll just have to see how that goes. Other than that things are OK here
I guess. I mean the thing of it is I think I'm going to be sending my braille
writer next week providing that my friend comes over and helps me take it to
the UP UPS store and yes we did have breakfast yesterday and it was like
yuck. It was scrambled eggs are stuck to the aluminum tray a little bit of
home fries and sausage and a bagel. Which I really don't care for bagels that
much especially this one because it didn't have any flavor it was just plain
yuck search the way that win plus the food was late. If I would've known it
was going to be late I would've gone to the library but I didn't have to
anyway because they sent me the books I wanted. So I don't need to go if I
don't want to. But I hope you get a chance to read the joy fielding book and
I'm going to call in for more books by her. This is an off and I'm really
beginning to like. And this one but they got released yesterday by Paul
Auster call 4321 I wonder how long it'll take the Library of Congress to
record it. It may get released an audio but I'm not gonna pay the prices for
audio that audible charges in other places. I read the review in iBooks. And
that's what I said it was going to be released on the 17th and that was good.
Kathleen Polkabla
On Feb 18, 2017, at 1:32 AM, Linda Gehres <ljgehres@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I think there are more people in the New York, City area who don’t have cars
and who need special grocery delivery there. Supposedly, most people have
access to transportation here, and that’s why most grocers who say they’ll
put your order together for you but that you must provide transportation to
come get it are missing the mark as far as I’m concerned. Yeah, I think
Safeway’s is mainly West Coast but they’ve fallen way down in terms of store
popularity as they used to be a much bigger national chain at one time.
Linda G.
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Yes you need to know how to swim to go scuba diving and I can swim. Yes I
sure can I don't do a great job of it but I can at least keep afloat. Yes I
would like to go to Vermont this summer. No we don't have Safeway of here I
don't think. This might be one of those chains that you have that we don't.
We have other chains here though and they deliver. You don't have to go on
the web you could just call it in over the phone or go to the store and have
them take you around and then go home and they'll deliver it. It's kind of a
long way around
Kathleen Polkabla
On Feb 17, 2017, at 12:43 AM, Linda Gehres <ljgehres@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Kathleen,
I’ve heard of the Joy Fielding book and it may be one I’ll download onto my
Victor Stream. Sounds good. Someone else I know was just reading it too.
I feel so blessed having someone come in and cook for me at my house. I
usually don’t eat eggs but when I do they are scrambled or in an omelette.
Yeah, you’re right about eggs. You don’t want to get cold eggs or else you
might get intestinalproblems to boot.
Hope you can visit your friend in Vermont someday. Do you have to know how
to swim in order to go scuba diving?
In Northern California, Vaughn’s is called Safeway. I gave up shopping on
the site because it wasn’t delivering up to half of my order. But now I
have another alternative.
Linda G.
