Well I feel like a techno-buffoon. There I was at Kroger, thinking I’m all smart doing my Christmas dinner shopping today because it’s Tuesday (which means senior discount!) which I get because of the senior with whom I share a Kroger card (as well as sharing the rest of my life). Anywho, I’ve got a cart full of food including $70 worth of standing rib roast (quite a purchase for a vegetarian). And then it happens. I realize that my Kroger card is on the key chain to my car, and I’m driving Richard’s jeep so I can fit all the bags in.
What to do? My first instinct was to call Richard and ask him to drive over with his Kroger card. But that seemed silly. Then I thought – surely they could look it up with my phone number or address – but the card is so old that I can’t remember my phone number at the house we used to live in. So, I called the MBM office and asked Lauren (the intern for one more day) to read me the number. I wrote it down (with a pen on my paper shopping list) and then confirmed it with the Customer Service Desk so there wouldn’t be an issue in the checkout line.
Groceries paid for: $35.03 in savings with the card and the senior discount. And then it dawned on me: CardStar! I have the CardStar app with my CVS and Kroger shopper’s cards scanned in. Duh! I so want to be paperless and save trees and be cool with my iPhone and technology. I guess I’ve got a ways to go.
But hey, I’m not completely techno-lost: we don’t have a land-line at home, only cell phones. And I did take a photo of the SR2 (standing rib roast) and text-ed it from Kroger to my sister – to get my mother to approve it (remember, I am a vegetarian). And I’ve updated my Facebook page to the Timeline. And I really, really, really want an iPad.
I guess I have to keep taking it one step at a time — and I’ll keep some twenty-something and thirty-somethings around to save me from myself, and modern technology.
- Maggi
