Partners In Crime

I'm probably the weirdest guy around who actually enjoys going grocery shopping. You won't hear me putting up a fuss whenever wifey says she needs to do some grocery shopping. In fact I sometimes even pester her to follow me do the groceries! LOL!

Ok, I'm sure all you guys are probably going to be shaking your head in disappointment. Yeah, yeah, I'm a bad example for all guys out there but hey, I can't help it. I seriously do enjoy going shopping with wifey. Though there are those rare occasions I'll revert to the typical male attitude of hating having to shop but that's really very rare.

Most times I'll gladly and willingly go shopping and not just grocery shopping at that. I'll even go clothes, shoe, handbag, plants, household items, acne cream and urrmmm, those underthings shopping with her and I'll even offer opinions and advise on the things she wants to buy. Though I'm not always agreeable with some of the things she wants to buy ... hehehe ...

And just cos I enjoy doing all this doesn't mean I'm a softie or anything of that sorts. I'll readily whup your ass anytime if the need arises ... LOL! I just happen to enjoy spending as much time with wifey as I possibly can cos as much as it might make some of you puke at hearing this, I simply cannot get enough of her! :D

Anyways, this is not what this post is all about. This is about me being a hoarder! I have been hoarding 'Aji-Shio Flavoured Pepper' replacement packs for quite a while now. In fact right now I think I have more stock than the hypermarket that I buy them from has! LOL! And the most weirdest thing is I'm trying to make whatever stock they have left on their shelves invisible to every other customer.


You're probably wondering just what in heavens name am I talking about. Ok, let me explain from the start. Maybe you'd better grab a nice sandwich, some coffee and sit back to read this post cos it just might turn out to be one of those long winded ones again ... hahaha ....

Wifey and me always shop at this hypermarket called Mydin which is pretty near our place. I think I've posted about this place and how they sell their stuff at really low prices. It's basically our regular grocery shopping place. We've been shopping there ever since the place first opened a few years back. and one of the products that we discovered that they sell that we could never find in a lot of other places was this flavoured pepper thingy.

We normally buy it in a bottle and it costs around RM3 plus or so while the replacement packs cost something like RM1 plus and just 2 of those packets make up one whole bottle and we save quite a bit by just getting the replacement packs. So we were kinda excited that they sold them here. Now we could save loads of money. It may not be much but every cent saved is another cent extra that we have and we use the flavoured pepper in quite a lot of our cooking anyway.

But the joy didn't last long cos when that batch ran out they didn't replenish the stock anymore. So there went our short lived joy! Darn, we said. We tried looking for it at other places, like Giant, Carrefour, Jusco, Cold Storage and none of them sold the replacement pack. They all sold the whole bottle and even then it was way more expensive than the ones at Mydin.

So we had to resort to buying the bottles again until recently after months of its disappearance, it's made a comeback at our favourite hypermarket. I was just browsing through the aisle one day and caught a glimpse of it and you should have seen the excitement in my face (I know it sounds silly getting excited over pepper but I couldn't control myself) and I instantly ran over to wifey with a whole bunch of it in my hands. She was as excited as I was when she saw what was in my hands. It was as if we found gold or something and we were jumping for joy, ok not really jumping but enough to elicit stares from other shoppers ... hehehe ...

I can't really remember how many I bought that day but it was a whole load of them. And then, worried that the other customers might finish all of it, we both conspired to hide the balance from the others. So, while wifey was acting as lookout, I quickly took loads of other items from nearby that was about the same size and pushed all the pepper packets way back into the shelves and placed this other items in the front so it was hidden from prying eyes ... LOL!

You should have seen the both of us. We were like crooks from a cartoon show or something. There she was hurrying me along while keeping an eye out and there I was grabbing all sorts of other products just to cover our 'treasure'! And cover it we did. It was a professionally done job that you would have never guessed they even sold flavoured pepper replacement packs :D

And so, everytime we went shopping there which is once a week, sometimes maybe more, I'll buy a couple more for my stock at home. And each and every time, wifey and me will be up to our sneaky little trick of hiding them again cos I think the staff of the place rearranges the darn things every day or something. And right now, the stock of that pepper at the hypermarket is diminishing with no signs of it being replaced. In fact at this point of time I have more pepper stock than the hypermarket ... hahaha ...

We make quite a sneaky pair, wifey and me. In fact we've done quite a lot of sneaky things in our lifetime that if I ever told you guys half the things we did, we'd both probably die of embarrassment ... LOL! And that's one of the reasons why I love that girl so much. She's as crazy as I am at times ... :D
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