My Usual Shopping RoundWe go shopping every day. The other day my mother tookme on a usual shopping round. We went to the grocer's andgreengrocer's as we had run out of sugar and onions.At the greengrocer's there was a long queue. But we hadnothing to do but stand in the queue if we wanted to get tothe counter and have some onions. The shop-girl weighed ushalf a kilo of onions, we thanked her and went out. Then wemade our way to the grocer's where we bought a kilo of sugarand some sausage. We were about to go home as my mothersuddenly remembered we had hardly any bread in the house.We dropped in at the baker's and bought a loaf of brownbread, some rolls and buns. On our way home the motherdecided to call at a commercial shop. She was looking for apresent to my father — as it was his birthday soon.As soon as we enteredthe shop, we found ourselves in afantastic motley city of silk skirts and shirts, woolen pullovers,frocks and leather boots and shoes. The smiling girlmet us at the counter. My mother said she wanted to buy asize 50 shirt of a dark-blue colour. The girl suggested lookingat a dark-blue cotton shirt with short sleeves. The shirt wasthe latest fashion and we were sure the father would like it.We paid the money at the cash-desk. The cashier gaveus areceipt and with it we came up to the shop-assistant. Shepassed us a wrapped parcel with the shirt, thanked us andadded they were always glad to see us at their shop and wehappy and a bit excited went out of the shop.
