I dreamed that I was driving somewhere with my father-in-law Bruce and my son Daniel. I don't remember where we were headed but it doesn't really matter because we never got there.
We decided that we should stop for snacks, because it is never a bad idea to have snacks no matter where you are going. We pulled into a parking lot at a grocery store and went inside.
The store was warehouse-style, like Costco. It was also enormous. It was at least four times the size of a regular Costco.
We quickly grabbed some snacks near the store entrance and got in line to check out. Bruce got in line first. He put his items on the conveyor belt, and then Daniel and I put our items on behind his.
I had grabbed a hostess cupcake. Daniel had a bottle of mountain dew and two small snacks that looked really good. I asked him what they were and he said that they tasted like a cross between an eclair and a zinger. He said that the store was giving out free samples.
I was really jealous. They sounded amazing! And with a free sample I could taste one (or two) now and also grab a few for the road. I asked him where he found them and he pointed to the left saying they were just a couple aisles away.
At this point, the cashier finished pulling Bruce's items off the conveyor belt. My items slowly moved forward but when they got to the front where the sensor should have detected them, they just kept going and went right off the end and fell on the floor. When the items behind ours got to the front the sensor detected them and the conveyor stopped.
That was strange. I picked our items off the floor. The man behind us in line saw what happened and gave us a look of sympathy. He moved his items back to make room for me to put mine back on the belt. I carefully placed them back on, making sure to put the large bottle of soda on the side where the sensor was.
It didn't make any difference. The sensor still didn't detect our stuff and they fell onto the floor again. The belt stopped when it detected the items behind ours. I decided to just hold my items until it was time to checkout.
I kept thinking about Daniel's snacks. I really wanted some. I thought that if I let the guy behind me checkout next then I should have enough time to grab some of those snacks and be back in line before he was done.
I told the guy behind me that he could go ahead of me because I needed to run and grab something. I placed my items behind his on the belt and I quickly walked towards the back of the line.
Across from our checkout line there was a large counter where a man was doing a teppanyaki-style cooking demonstration. I really love watching those guys cook, but I reminded myself that I was in a hurry so I turned left and started looking for the snack aisle.
At the end of the next aisle there was a guy handing out free samples of freshly baked rolls. They looked really delicious, but I again reminded myself to stay focused and I just hurried past.
As I continued walking past row after row I would glance down each one to see if I spotted anything snack-like. I saw an electronics aisle, one with light fixtures, another with hardware and tools, and then a couple that had computers setup where people could trade stocks. But no snacks.
I realized that I was running out of time. I glanced up at the signs that were at the end of each aisle to see if one of them sounded promising, but all the words on the signs were blurred out.
I walked faster, passing several more aisles with no snacks. I could actually see the end of the store at this point and from where I was until the end there was only produce. There was nothing down there that I could possibly want to eat so I turned back.
At this point I figured that I had just missed the snack aisle somewhere, but I also decided that I was probably out of time. I just needed to get back in line and checkout.
I hurried back towards where I had left Daniel. When I got back near the hardware aisle I could see the checkout line. It was huge. All the other checkout lines were closed so everyone had gotten into our line. The line was so big it looked like it was Black Friday.
Daniel was at the front of the line, frantically waving one hand in the air to get my attention, while his other hand held our items which had fallen on the floor again.
The hordes of people behind him were angrily complaining about "some idiot" who was holding them all up and causing all these problems.
I tried to inconspicuously sneak back to the front of the line, but it was blatantly obvious that I was the person at fault. As I slowly slunk to the front of the line each person I passed gave me a withering glare. When I was about halfway to the front I couldn't take it anymore and woke up.
Dreamed on 4/14/2020
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