I can still remember the first time I saw a HEB. I had just moved to Austin in 1997 and saw some store I had never seen nor heard about. "Heb. What's a heb?" It didn't take long for someone to defend the pronunciation of this blessed store. It's not a word. It's 3 letters. It's a grocery store haven I soon discovered.
So 9 years later when they built a HEB Plus! less than a mile from my house... you can imagine my excitement. And then imagine my disappointment when a year later we moved to an area that... get this... not only didn't have a HEB close to my house... it DIDN'T HAVE A HEB.... AT ALL!!!!! NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Imagine the scene in Elf when he learns his dad is on the naughty list... yea, that would be me.)
So this past weekend when we went to Austin for a visit there was no way I was going to leave town without taking a stroll through my favorite grocery store. The struggle was not being able to get anything cold since we still had to go to church, drive 2 1/2 hours to my mom's, have dinner and then go home.
So here is a little sentiment from my trip to HEB...
And now I say... "You know your life is pathetic when... you make a big deal about a grocery store." But for those who have loved and lost this irreplaceable grocery heaven they'll completely understand. Because, truly, "everything is better" there.
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we are wives and mothers, unfortunately, the grocery store is part of our lives! it is important! i have a ritual that i do. i go to wal-mart on friday nights (big friday night out) i get all my paper products laundry soap and all that gak, then i go to BJ's Wholesale for certain items that i can get real cheap, then i go to shop rite for the rest. i hate shop rite. it's the cheapest place in town and it's packed constantly, i don't care if you go in there at midnight, you won't be able to get down the isle without running your cart into someone else. I guess my point is...i've never really found a grocery store that i love.
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