Trip to grocery store ends in lost focus

By Gin Crawford
Correspondent

Published March 4, 2007

I don’t know why, but one of the things I hate to do more than anybody I know of is going to the grocery store.

On a recent visit I was headed down the aisle at Kroger’s to get a bottle of hair spray when I got slightly sidetracked, lost my focus and was standing there trying to remember why I was on that aisle. … Ah yes, it was toothpaste I was after — no … it was toothpaste and hair spray.

OK, I thought, “Now I know what I need to get,” when a nice lady said to me, “Have you ever seen so many different shampoos?”

That’s all it took. We struck up a conversation and started looking at all the promises that the different labels made. The nice lady’s name is Teresa (Tas) Schlumpberger — seems she was looking for the magic one that would transform her hair into a beautiful, shiny, full, well-nourished, moisturized, ph-balanced head of hair.

After all our research I think we narrowed it down for you. While we found out all about each other while doing this research, I think we may have discovered just the product you will need for all your hair problems.

You can get shampoo for thirsty hair. You can get shampoo for flat hair called anti-flat. You can get shampoo for anti-poof. Big hair is not so in right now. It sounds like the one you would need now is one in between anti-flat and anti-poof.

My own personal favorite was one called, “no major issues.” I’m guessing that would be the one you would get after you use the anti-flat or the anti-poof because now all you have to do is maintain the perfect hair — and no major issues sounds like it would do the trick.

Now here’s the bonus to all this: Tas bought three different products and said she would let us all know somewhere around St. Pat’s day how they all worked. I, for one, am really interested in finding out if all these promises made on the bottles give her the results she wants because I’m one of those folks that believes shampoo is shampoo is shampoo.

While we were talking and laughing and talking and laughing, I found out something I really wanted to hear. When we get moved to the new house we will be surrounded by ponds and woods, and I have a big ol’ fear of snakes. Tas lives on the beautiful San Bernard River and is involved with Friends of the River, by the way.

Since the San Bernard is a huge pond, you know they have a snake problem. But since she adopted some stray kittens they have seen one snake and it was a dead one, she said. She did the right thing by the cats and had them spayed and neutered. They have all their shots and she keeps them up to date.

She puts out a little food every day for the cats and the one raccoon that comes up to share in the feast.

I was much more interested in hearing the anti-snake information than anything the shampoo labels had to say. And yes, I did forget the hair spray and toothpaste so I get to go back to the store.