Going to the Market

Santon with basket

 

As I walked to the market in our little French town I was teasingly happy thinking how I matched, black shoes, black tights, dark grey dress…. and my NEW little black and white checked shopping cart. "I am so stylin' for once." I humored myself.

I went to stall to stall filling up my little black and white checked shopping cart with half a pumpkin,  potatoes, leeks, a cooked beet, some salmon, and fresh apple juice… I thought to myself, "See how easy it is with a cart on wheels! No more basket for me, this cart rolls with ease!" I continued stuffing my new little black and white checked shopping cart…apples, pears, cheese, a dozen eggs, jars of yogurt and at the end I bought a baguette that I put under my arm and carried the flowers with my free hand… 'cause rolling my NEW little black and white checked shopping cart is easy to do with one hand even when it was stuffed silly…

Until the wheel broke!

I didn't feel so stylish as I drug my cart, which made a sound worse than one's fingernails on a chalk board up the cobble streets to my house.

Eggs cracked, flowers wilted, and the girl in the black shoes, black tights, dark grey dress felt like the little piggy that did not weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee all the way home.

 

 

 

I rolled it down the



Comments

28 responses to “Going to the Market”

  1. christine

    Oh, m….e ! xx

  2. kelleynr

    Sorry!

  3. “…a cooked beet” Only 1? Yikes, Farmboy Husband and I have to grow our own, because we eat so many!!!

  4. Oh no. Bummer. big bummer. Can it be fixed? Fixed so it won’t happen again??
    Blessings!

  5. When life gives you a broken cart wheel and cracked eggs, make an omelet 🙂

  6. Oh dear! Frustrating!

  7. Brother Mathew

    By chance did this nifty cart happen to be a “find” at some backwoods brocante?

  8. A broken cart being dragged by a stylish lady trying not to whisper naughty words under her breath. Maybe we need to get you a little red Radio Flyer wagon. They can hold oodles and are retro/stylish!

  9. Corey goes to market, LOL. She does even that like none other!

  10. How dare that fake critter give you such disappointment!

  11. hahahah I know…it wasn’t funny, but somehow I can picture this. Fix the wheel and carry on!

  12. Oh no! I drag a full grocery cart every weekend, so I can imaging 🙁 I keep wanting to get a French wicker basket with wheels … might not be practical … but it’s super stylish 😉

  13. laughing…

  14. Oh no. MAN, it always happens when you look cute, too.

  15. violet cadburry

    Did you forget your iphone? I have a concierege app that summons God-like men from Mt. Olympus with brawny shoulders. They could have carried you and your basket alllll the waaaaay hooooome. I never leave home without it.

  16. Oh, brother Mathew! That was uncalled for. And stop rubbing your hands with such delight.
    Corey, that very same thing happened to me. My DH bought me a beautiful cane buggy that looked so bohemian and so stylish (maybe not as stylish as Irina’s longed for french basket, but much better than anyone else here had). I too was so proud of myself skipping along, pulling it behind me, passing others weighed down by ugly plastic bags.
    And then comes the fall!!
    There is certainly an art to dragging a one wheel buggy full of shopping through a crowded market place.
    I didn’t have one of those ‘dial-an-Adonis’ apps, but a dear friend fixed two new bright red wheels onto it.
    BTW . . what is a cooked beet and why can’t you buy them raw and cook them at home?

  17. I agree with the red flyer wagon idea – they are very tough! And stylish too in a retro kind of way Just might be hard not to to roll over a few toes in the crowded market.

  18. Well…the minute we start to feel a little bit smug… ka chunk, off come the wheels. I say find a sturdier bag to pull. French women have been doing it for years. There has to be a solution. Maybe I’ll have my handy husband build you one and deliver it myself.

  19. jend’isère

    Well, I know you were not buying a pig…..
    “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
    Home again, home again, jiggety-jig;
    To market to market to buy a fat hog,
    Home again, home again, jiggety-jog;
    To market, to market to buy a plum bun,
    Home again, home again, market is done.”

  20. Well, at least you looked cute…

  21. I had this really cute vision of you all goin’ on in my imagination and then, BAM !!!!! LOL
    Get that danged wheel fixed…..you’ve got an image to uphold!

  22. don’t want to laugh, but that is funny. I’m so sorry!!!! Poor eggs, poor flowers, poor bread, poor COREY!!! But look at it this way – you made my day with a good chuckle. 🙂

  23. This is exactly what would happen to me – the fashion stars just never completely align!

  24. I use a very sturdy wicker cart for flea markets and trips to any open market. YOu can see it in the new issue of Flea Market Decor (pg. 16). We sell soooooo many of these in the States. Very stylish and very sturdy 😉 I have a vintage metal cart but the wheels aren’t in great shape (rubber is chewed up a bit)but I still love to roll it around the markets 🙂

  25. no oui oui oui all the way home.

  26. Oh my gosh, Corey, you are so funny!! I need to move to Europe. I think I’d get a lot more exercise!!! Enjoy your trip to Willows and Mexico!!!!! Can’t wait to read about your adventures!
    Donna

  27. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    Pride comes before the fall…ing off of the cart wheel!
    Such a classic story, and I was so enjoying imagining you all in stylish black and grey until the big crash. Does everyone in France wear black/grey, or just you and Chelsea?

  28. Oh Corey..Don’t you know that when we are feeling so good about ourselves something is bound to happen to bring us back to reality!!..And Brother Mathew..Why would think something like this?? lol

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