Nighttime shopping in Asda

One of our favourite activities is going to Asda in the middle of the night. I'm talking 2AM shopping trip, basically running through the whole store (which is massive) with a trolley and buying random things. We find this extremely fulfilling.

When we go to Asda at 2AM, it's practically empty. We are maybe two out of five people who are there shopping. The rest of the people there are those fortunate enough to work as shelf stockers during the night, and we find that some of these people appreciate our complete peculiarity, ahem... coolness. Yes, in fact, just last night we were dancing along to "Sitting Down Here" by Lene Marlin, whilst I was celebrating the fact that Norwegian music was playing on the Asda radio (Norwegian pride, yay!). We were swinging about with our trolley when one of the shelf stockers turned around and shouted at us "you look really cool!" (yes, this actually happened). We had a bit of fun with this guy, telling him to join us in our very cool dance routine of absolute randomness, and then we moved on to our next adventure, which ended up being contemplating why there was no handle on the biggest pack of toilet rolls (seriously?).

Gabby bought a pair of very cool pink sweats, and we both bought these massive red t-shirts with the words "Keepin' It Royal" on them, and pictures of a crown, the Union Jack and a corgi below (hahaha, yes, a corgi, what else?). I'm wearing it as a nightgown, that is how big it is. It's very comfy.

Last night may also have been the first and only time someone has ever taken a trolley into the Asda toilets. Gabby and I laughed at this for a good five minutes, because that is how cool we are.

When we got to the self checkout, we, of course, had issues with it. It's especially bitchy at night. I don't know why. Maybe it's tired from all the hard work it's been doing throughout the day. Anyway, it's always saying "unexpected item in bagging area, please remove this item before continuing", but then when you remove it, that ends up being wrong too, and it bellows at you to put the item back, only to ask you to remove it a second time. It could probably go on like this for hours. Luckily there was a very helpful lady supervising the checkout area last night. She was very funny, and we had a nice long conversation about all kinds of random things. Topics included anything from "real life" on television (which this woman claimed to never watch, as she only watched soaps and horror films), Madcon being Norwegian ("Beggin'" was playing on the Asda radio, and at this point I was like NORWEGIAN MUSIC HAS TAKEN OVER THE PLANET AHHH), and how Gabby and I were going to get on TV, me performing and Gabby in the audience with a massive poster saying "GO WIFEY". We almost didn't want to leave, even though it was almost 3:30AM, because this woman was so funny.


This is why going to Asda in the middle of the night is so much fun; there are no people shopping at that time, so the place is far from busy and the people who work there are probably bored. So when a spectacle like me and Gabby enter the store, it is going to draw a lot of attention, because we are just SO COOL. (Imagine us doing Mae West pose of win, also referred to as Maewin, and you'll have no choice but to agree with that statement.)

Anyway, I am now going to end this blog entry like I am fucking cool. MAEWIN. Peace out.




PS: If you can't find peace, maybe the Russian grannies can help you?