I complain about the tooth fairy, maintaining the grocery shopping list, returning things, and the local Christmas parade. I get in trouble at every turn. But, I love VONS.
I complain about the tooth fairy, maintaining the grocery shopping list, returning things, and the local Christmas parade. I get in trouble at every turn. But, I love VONS.
LOL moment: “Does everything around here have to be WHIPPED???”
Okay Dan, you wanted a “Bring! Bring!” ringtone, you got it: http://idisk.mac.com/japester/Public/dan_klass_bring_bring.zip
I agree that “lost” implies “gone forever”. If it’s not “lost”, I say, “I can’t find it”.
I gotta’ purse. Get one. It’s great.
Vons, the Start-Up
Downtown Los Angeles was essentially a small town when Charles Von der Ahe opened his 20-foot wide Groceteria on the corner of 7th and Figueroa in 1906 with $1,200 in savings. It was a neighborhood store that catered to the needs of local families, where Von der Ahe pioneered “cash and carry” as an alternative to “charge and delivery”. His formula proved so successful that by 1928 Vons had expanded to 87 stores. Charles Von der Ahe sold his chain the following year, but four years later, despite the Depression, two of his sons, Ted and Will re-started Vons. Its growth and innovation over the next 70 years was non-stop. In 1948 the brothers opened their most ambitious store at the corner of Santa Barbara and Crenshaw. Thanks to the introduction of pre-packaged perishables, they were able to offer some of the first self-service produce, meat and deli departments. This milestone marked the advent of the first true supermarkets as we know them today. The most explosive growth occurred during the 1970’s when Vons branched out to 159 stores with 16,000 employees, making it firmly the #1 grocery retailer in Southern California. Today the Vons operation, which includes Pavilions stores, is now a part of the Safeway family of companies. Vons stretches from San Diego to Fresno, from Clark County, Nevada to the Pacific. Its 325 stores serve millions of Southern Californians and Nevadans.
Just one of the many things that I love about the show is hearing how, despite the huge gulf in distance between us, we have very similar issues with wives and kids. I totally related to the issue of “the shopping list” and how you’re supposed to have some kind of sixth sense about this.
I bet you, like me, have never dared to say “well wife, if i’m so awful at this, why don’t you do it, then it will be done as you want?”. You know why? Because then it would be your fault for eating into her schedule, for making her tired etc. As you say, take the bullet for the team, it’s a battle you’ll never win with a woman.
Cute pic and cute kids by the way.
I love about the show is hearing how, despite the huge gulf in distance between us, we have very similar issues with wives and kids.