How to read a Shopping List: Part One: List Overview
By Budiak
Here we have a prime example of a fantastic found shopping list. I found this recently on friday night's jaunt to a local warehouse-bargain-family-owned-megamart. I'll whet your beak with a photo so we can get going on this.
Notice how I added a vignette to the list. This accentuates the overall mysterious nature of this
list, which gets more strange every time I look at it.
Upon first seeing this list I instantly knew that it was made by a man at his wife's behest.
Now, I normally don't stereotype this way, but stereotypes have an odd way of telling us
exactly what happened. Let's face it: the average guy goes to the store hungry, buys
what he feels like eating at the moment, and then eats out the rest of the week because he
doesn't have anything to eat at home. I go to the store and look in other people's baskets all the
time and see huge multi-packs of chips, various chocolate products, and perhaps the errant banana.
This is probably one of those guys, and I'll explain why in a minute.
I know that this was written by a man because all of the signs are there. First, it was
written with a felt-tip permanent marking pen. Women usually have several ballpoints in
every chromatic variation on hand wherever they have paper, and since the writing
is in black with no color changes, the evidence points towards masculinity.
Second, It is written in block capitals (which could mean that the items were being
yelled at him as he dictated the list or that he doesn't speak english very well).
Women...women don't do this. They just don't.
Third and lastly, the writer isn't exactly familiar with all of the items on the list
because of the descriptions. It was probably written while walking or driving because
of the deliberate nature of the strokes and the fact that some of the letters simply
escaped the writer's ability.
Part Two: Items 1-6
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