5 Things You Know Are True If You Go To The King Soopers On Elizabeth and Taft
Despite the countless options for eating out in Fort Collins, or even just the countless options on West Elizabeth Street, some of us pride ourselves on doing our best to make home-cooked meals. Maybe there’s hungry kids at home waiting on you, or maybe you just have been craving something that doesn’t come to you from a drive through window. Unfortunately, this feat can only be attempted after a different one has been accomplished: the grocery run. The key word here being “run”, because the longer you spend at the King Soopers on Elizabeth & Taft, the more likely it is to steal your soul.
1. If you get out of the parking lot without a near-collision, it’s a miracle.
Maybe it’s the concept of the one way parking lanes people don’t understand, or maybe they’re just too hangry to care. Either way, an evening trip to this grocery store always seems to end in you slamming on your brakes at some point. Is it too much to ask for a little alternating?
2. This image below is a totally unique concept for you.
The visible floors, the lack of people pushing their metal carts through a fray of many others, no longer a fight to just grab a single tomato! It is honestly beautiful. At the crossroads between student and local resident life, this particular King Soopers doesn’t seem to have a “slow” time.
3. Late-night grocery runs always end in you running into someone you know.
It also doesn’t help that you’re wearing your rattiest sweatpants and that hoodie you haven’t washed in months. Whether it’s an old professor or coworker, or that girl you used to be friends with on Facebook, you always find yourself asking: Why does everyone shop here? Don’t people know that there’s a Safeway just a little farther down the road? Wait…why do I shop here? No wonder grocery delivery is on the rise.
4. You feel judged by the self-checkout attendant when you push the limit on how many items you’re allowed.
Maybe this is universal among all grocery stores, because making small talk with the cashiers seems like too much work after finally deciding which brand of cereal isn’t terribly unhealthy. You still feel an air of disapproval surrounding you, but you ignore the looks they give you anyway.
5. By the time you’re done, you really just want to head over to Cheba Hut for a consolation sandwich.
As much as you will try to keep cooking those homemade meals, there’s something about a good sandwich once and awhile that you can’t resist.
