What do you "shop" for at the grocery store?

There is a local paper that comes out each week in this little town and I read it on occasion during my coffee break at my desk.  It's a free paper and I basically just get it to read my "astrological forecast" for the week.  Sometimes there are a few interesting articles to read, but basically, I just end up skimming through it.  Sometimes if I need a good laugh, I'll read the personal ads.  (I'm sorry if this offends any of you single people out there, but in this day of age I imagine you all have a sense of humor by now.)  My favorite section in the Personals are the entries under the "Missed Connections" column.  They can be all quite interesting.  Here's an example:

"Our eyes met in the express line at the Corner Market.  I was wearing the blue turtleneck holding the bottle of merlot, and you were the stunning blonde in red holding the bag of apples.  Regrettably, I was too shy to start a conversation.  Want to meet for apple pie and wine sometime?"

Oh, and then there is this one:

"Our carts bumped briefly in the frozen food section of the grocery store last week.  I was the one who helped you pick up the bag of frozen peas.  Your eyes were as green as the peas, and your smile made me melt.  I was too embarrassed to even say hello.  Did you feel the same connection?"

Oddly enough, both of these encounters were at a grocery store.  The odds of course of these two ads ever being answered are quite slim unless one of these "missed connection" people actually pick up this obscure newspaper, and happen to come across the little ad, hidden tighthly away in the little column the day it actually goes into print.  It is kind of sad actually, and a little pathetic that someone took the time to write up these sappy ads in desperate hopes that their encounter person will actually make contact with them.  I'm sure they will get answers, however they might not be from the same people the were intended to reach.  Let's just hope that one day these people will meet at the grocery store again one day, and will gather the nerve to express themselves.  Aww... 

When I was single, I was told, and I had read in various books and magazines that the grocery store was an excellent place to meet men.  The "hot" aisles were of course the frozen food and pasta section because typically men ate a lot of frozen food and were onlycapable of boiling water for spaghetti.  I can speak from experience that I never met anyone remotely interesting at a grocery store, other than the escaped mental health patient wearing the fake fairy wings, pretending to be an angel.  (I swear for a moment there I thought I was the only one in there who could actually see him.) 

Do people actually meet other people at grocery stores?  It would be interesting to know.  Other places that I were told to meet other single people (besides bars, nightclubs, online dating) were as follows:  Childrens sporting events, (When I was single, I was so broke I couldn't afford putting my children into sporting events, and frankly they weren't interested in them.) Church (are you kidding?), Library (Yeah, if you want to meet a senior citizen for a game of checkers or if you have a thing for transient men), Walks in the park with the family dog (I own a cat), School (I was so broke when I was single I once worked 3 jobs--when do I go to school, while rasing two kids?).  None of these places worked for me.  I think the person who suggested these places for single people were all married.  Maybe they were all having affairs with married people, I don't know, or perhaps they were still watching a little too many old re-runs of Mary Tyler Moore or That Girl, when all you had to do is look cute and wear a good hat. 

I'm just glad I'm not single anymore!