When I was a boy

In Berlin in 1948

 

When I was a boy, my mother would send me down to the corner store with a few coins and I'd come back with 5 bags of potatoes, 2 loaves of bread, 3 bottles of milk, a hunk of cheese, a box of tea, and half-a-dozen eggs.

Of course, you can't do that now. Too many friggin' security cameras!

I was reminded of this when helping Padma with her shopping today.