Bleh I had a long day today and I generally got bad amounts when shopping. At first I planned on doing a shopping trip in the 1’s in the afternoon, and I left the house at 10:57, planning to ride around in the meantime before then. Eventually I found myself far north of town, and I decided to cut across and then take another major road south to the supermarket, but I overshot the road while not realizing it because it was a much smaller road up there. So I continued cutting across for a long time until I realized that something must be wrong. The roads aren’t really parallel to each other and knowing that continued to prod me forward. So eventually I pulled out my phone and checked, and indeed I was way off course on the other side of it. I was also incredibly thirsty and I was in the middle of a lot of serious farmland, so there wasn’t any relief in sight.
For some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about how refreshing it would feel to drink an ice cold clear soda, with it’s ice cold carbonation especially. Eventually I made my way to the town Mannheim and to my great relief I found a convenience store.. I normally get a Gatorade type sports drink when I’m thirsty like that but this time I craved the carbonation.. I couldn’t believe it when the sodas were actually in my hands.. (However the price was $5.29 and the checkout time was 1:53:46 unfortunately.. ) But anyway I went out front and sat in the shade against a fence and started drinking! The cold carbonation felt as good as I expected! But soon my stomach was filled with what felt like syrup and it made me feel horrible.. So I stayed sitting against the fence resting for quite some time until I felt well enough to move again.
(Also my stomach was totally empty except for coffee that I drank in the morning because I’ve been fasting for many days! So that totally contributed to my intense thirst and then the feeling of sickness after drinking the sodas.)
So then I eventually made my way up the road again after quite some time passed, and with me still not feeling very well. And then I came across a Subway restaurant, and I thought that putting some food in my stomach would alleviate how I felt. So I bought sub with a drink and without chips, and the total was $7.08 but the checkout time was 3:12:44 although I didn’t realize the checkout time until much later.
Eating the sub helped at first and I was drinking a lot of water with it, but I ordered too many hot condiments on it, so eventually I didn’t feel like eating all of it. Then after resting at the Subway for a while I left it and rode toward Lancaster.. But eventually the Sub and the sodas that I drank previously caught up with me and I started feeling nauseous again (but there wasn’t any problem with the food of course, it was my condition and the fact that I ordered too many spicy condiments out of habit..) but I was determined to keep it all down.. However eventually a lot of it came up so I pulled over to the side of the road and emptied my stomach of all of it, which made me feel better but eventually I was thirsty again. I then rode my bike all the way home and drank a lot of water when I arrived.
Then soon I headed out to go shopping again, but I got bad amounts! It was $138.22 with a checkout time of 8:05! Bad! (at first I thought it was 8:06 outside the store!) I don’t know how to interpret that, but I’m going to keep working on things and I’m sure good amounts will happen soon enough. I hope all is well..