We have become very accustomed to consistency in the USA commerce area. We didn't realize how much we took that for granted until we moved here.
We have come to realize that if you see something in a store that you want, you'd better buy it right then, for it may not be there next time. For example, sour cream can be hard to come by here, at least sometimes. We purposefully visited a Spar Superstore to find sour cream, and I recalled (surprisingly given my age) exactly where we had found it before. But...it wasn't there. Trying to ask someone where it is, is a fruitless, but sometimes entertaining, adventure.
A few days later we were shopping at our usual grocer, Pic-N-Pay, and there it was, where we had never seen it, sour cream! Our next visit, we looked, and there it was again. We like to eat canned salmon, but sometimes it is on the shelf and sometimes not. I bought a bag of "Fizzers" a South African chewy candy, and then didn't see it in the store for about 5-6 weeks when it suddenly reappeared in s slightly different form.
Consistency is nice, it is comforting, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson said it, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". Being shaken out of our own consistency is one of the virtues of coming to a foreign country.
I suppose I am too consistent in my sins, and too inconsistent in following after the Christ. How about you?
We have come to realize that if you see something in a store that you want, you'd better buy it right then, for it may not be there next time. For example, sour cream can be hard to come by here, at least sometimes. We purposefully visited a Spar Superstore to find sour cream, and I recalled (surprisingly given my age) exactly where we had found it before. But...it wasn't there. Trying to ask someone where it is, is a fruitless, but sometimes entertaining, adventure.
A few days later we were shopping at our usual grocer, Pic-N-Pay, and there it was, where we had never seen it, sour cream! Our next visit, we looked, and there it was again. We like to eat canned salmon, but sometimes it is on the shelf and sometimes not. I bought a bag of "Fizzers" a South African chewy candy, and then didn't see it in the store for about 5-6 weeks when it suddenly reappeared in s slightly different form.
Consistency is nice, it is comforting, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson said it, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". Being shaken out of our own consistency is one of the virtues of coming to a foreign country.
I suppose I am too consistent in my sins, and too inconsistent in following after the Christ. How about you?
I must raise my hand...
ReplyDelete