A Favour

Me doing grocery shopping? How unlikely. As a matter of fact, I’m lending a hand to my neighbour next door. Starting from the top of the list, butter. I push the cart to the dairy products section. I’m looking for the SCS sign from the assortment of butters on the display fridge. Grabbing two low-fat yogurts along the way, I turn at the junction and stop right at the rack full of condiments. Let’s see, one bottle of mayonnaise and chocolate syrup, preferably Hershey’s. The cart is slowly filling up as I go through the list. Trying to be in line at the shortest queue, I stumble across Mrs. Regina. We greet each other. “She left you a note.”, I hear her saying. “It’s a little earlier than expected, I thought she ought to be there only on this coming Tuesday.”, I reply and notify her that I will drop by tomorrow.