Their Carts Overfloweth

So, not only have we learned that we can't take advantage of the cheap food delivery (one can get almost anything delivered here - when we take our laundry to the place around the corner we can get it returned to us for free!) because most restaurants don't open until 8pm at the earliest, which is much too late for school nights, but we've also learned not to head to Disco or Carrefour, the two grocery stores we frequent, at 5pm. If you try to shop at that hour you'll encounter long lines - seriously, does everyone in Buenos Aires have to be as poorly organized with dinner plans as we are?

Long lines aren't the worst, though. Oftentimes, at least three out of every five shoppers either have no will power and just can't restrain themselves from putting every shiny item they see into their cart, or they shop once a month and buy every single necessary food item in one trip. Using my stealthy skills I snapped this picture of a woman with two overflowing carts by pretending to be carefully studying my phone screen. At the bottom of the cart in front were two-liter bottles of Coca-cola; gaseosa (soda) is consumed in large quantities by many porteños, at least the carts I've seen in the grocery stores seem to suggest so. I guess it's not just we Americans who are addicted to corn syrup and food coloring!