Are you aware of others when you go to a store or while you are driving? I try to be, but then there are idiots like the two pea-brains that held up people from going into the local Shop Rite Supermarket this weekend while they looked at these stupid $0.50 Halloween flashlights and blocked the single entrance into the store with their carts. This situation raises several questions: 1.) What was I doing going food shopping? 2.) What was I planning on cooking? and 3.) How did I resolve this issue with the rocket-surgeons blocking the entrance? Let me answer these questions in the order, you the reader, care to know them.

Rocket-Surgeon Run In
My mother always says "It's not rocket science.", or "It's not brain surgery.” When I meet some really talented nimrods I like to refer to them as rocket-surgeons - they are that talented at being dumb.

These two women were walking into the Shop Rite each with a cart, only one would walk out. That's not true - but it reads like a movie preview doesn't it? Anyway, they are walking in and right next to the entrance is a stand with these little rinka dink flashlights. "Oh so cute!!” they exclaimed. "Oh, so stupid and so is your taste in gifts.” I thought to myself. The blockers thought they could prevent me from picking up my ingredients for mussels on the grill? I was way ahead of them - I was going cartless. That's right, NO CART. With my own bare hands I was on a mission to carry my grocery list in one hand and pickup the following items with the other: 6 lbs. Maine mussels, parsley, two lemons, 4 tomatoes, 1 gallon whole milk, scallions, 1 French baguette, and 1 stick unsalted butter. I know what you're thinking, and I’m going to go ahead and say it…I have big hands. But let's get back to the blockers - Since I am without cart I have an advantage over the other 5 folks behind the blockers. I cut through the blockees until I reach the blockers’ carts, I split 'em like Moses did the Red Sea, and as I pass I provide them with my color commentary on the situation they have created, "Are you both that self-absorbed that you think you are the only ones wanting to pickup groceries today?” "Well...oh…we…we were just looking at the flashlights.” the one replied. "Stupid idea, at a stupid time, at stupid place, stupid.", and I walked off. This is the kind of stuff that happens to me everyday…so be prepared for these gems on The Daily Blog Blog.

The Meal
I’m not really the kind of person that goes food shopping unless absolutely necessary – and the necessity today was a great dish of mussels for the boys to enjoy while the peaches were at the mall. The kids were sleeping and Scooter and I were going to eat like Vikings. The dish is really simple – ingredients listed above, except for the milk, that was for the kids in the a.m. and the baguette, that’s for dipping in the mussels. Mix the ingredients in a tin pan along with red pepper flakes, kosher salt, and pepper and cook on a grill at 425-500 degrees for 8 minutes. Stir, serve, eat – dip bread in juice. Do not eat any mussel that has not opened – DANGER: Shell Shock. This meal will feed two grown men and will cost you $20. Scooter and I ate this messy and delicious dish out back around the fire pit – yeah I know what you’re thinking, but we were listening to AC/DC so it was cool.