Was at the grocery store, getting bagels and ice cream. Don't ask. I reach into my purse and pull out a skein of yarn. I sort of smiled at the cashier lady, who had decided I was nuts, and tried it again. Thankfully, I came up with my wallet that time.
I'll be back once I can get the yarn back in the stash and things slightly more under control.
xo
I understand. You went to the store for essentials. Is it odd to have a skein of yarn in your purse? Oh, my.
Posted by: Cindycindy | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM
I especially like digging for a pen and pulling out needles in four different sizes from my bag....
I realized this morning that either my stash has gone walkabout and is not living in the little drawers of my card catalog like it should be or I have no yarn....
Posted by: Melanie | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM
You mean that's not normal?
Oh, shit.
Posted by: datagoddess | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:23 AM
Don't go back to the grocery store! It sounds scary.
Posted by: margene | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:32 AM
I love it! When I tried to pull out change the other day from my wallet, a bunch of stitch markers fell out.... no change, just stitch markers :)
XOXO
Posted by: Beverly | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Oh dear. I've done that same thing. And gotten the same "what the heck" look.
Posted by: Jenn C. | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Bagels and ice cream, huh? I like my bagels with cream cheese but the ice cream must be a California thing.
Posted by: Carole | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 12:09 PM
Maybe you could have battered with her. I recently was picking up a $350 pair of glasses. The clerk loved my ring and said she wanted it. I told her I'd barter the ring for the glasses. Eh, the ring was worth $6...a little bling bling that would soon tarnish...lol.
Posted by: Joansie | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM
The cashier is nuts if she thinks it's NOT normal to have yarn in your purse. Sheesh!
Standing in line to register The Boy for swim lessons this morning, I'm wearing my "a daily dose of fiber" Ravelry shirt. The muggle moms in front of me GOT IT. One even told a story about how she told some friends recently that she'd started spinning, meaning at the gym on a bike. Her friend said, "really? what are you making?" Maybe muggles aren't as useless as once imagined...
At any rate, ice cream and bagel sandwiches sound perfect!
Posted by: Anne | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 02:16 PM
I once absent-mindedly pulled a Tampax out of my handbag while at the check-out (blush). Sorry, that's all I've got!
Posted by: (Another) Joan | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 02:31 PM
Was it peanut butter flavored ice cream? That would be pretty good on bagels!
xo
Posted by: Marilyn | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 02:49 PM
What are you doing at the grocery store when there's soccer to watch?
Tsk, you're such a tease. Nothing about what color yarn or if there were needles in the purse too or if the yarn was lace weight or what you plan to knit with it.
Posted by: Diane | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 03:18 PM
Ha! I always have to move yarn to get to my wallet.
You are not nuts. You're just a knitter.
Posted by: Tiny Tyrant | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 03:40 PM
I never figured you for someone who'd get hauled in for assault by deadly skein.
And, uh, what's wrong with bagels & ice cream? My friend was buying only baby food (for her cat) and beer and got a dirty look from the cashier. Oh, unless it was crappy ice cream. Life is way too short for crappy ice cream.
Posted by: Big Alice | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 04:10 PM
None of that sounded the least bit odd. ice cream, bagels, yarn in bag. it all sounds good to me.
Posted by: marianne | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 04:34 PM
You know... a skein of yarn is probably not the oddest thing that could have come out of there.
/runs
cruisin' on the day before he comes home
muwahahahahah
Posted by: Squishy | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 04:39 PM
Yarn? Try underpants. Not that I would know about this firsthand or anything. Ahem.
Posted by: Norma | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 06:38 PM
I have done them all--yarn, needles, tampon, stitch markers. Maybe I need a life aside from knitting!!
Posted by: Kathy Sue | Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 06:43 PM
Yeah, with me it's usually a tampon. Yarn would seem downright tame in comparison!
xo
Posted by: Nora | Friday, June 25, 2010 at 03:58 AM
Bagels. Ice Cream. Yarn. Somehow it doesn't seem strange to me at all.
Posted by: Kym | Friday, June 25, 2010 at 04:36 AM
Doesn't everyone take part of their stash for a trip out now & again?
Yarn can get bored waiting in a stash until it's time to grow into something interesting. :-)
A trip to the store for bagels & ice cream is just the sort of thing to liven up a hank of yarn.
Take care
Ann
Posted by: Ann | Friday, June 25, 2010 at 06:13 AM
I always have knitting in my purse. Usually it's in one of Jessalu's box bags, and most often in the one with the sock monkeys on it. If that is nuts, then lock me up!
Posted by: Doris | Friday, June 25, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Having yarn in my purse is my comfort. :D Not that I do all that much with it lately......
Good luck with the control stuff...sounds fine to me but it is your purse. :D
Posted by: Angie | Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 07:17 AM
But isn't this normal? Doesn't everyone pull a skein or two and maybe a project out of their purse before finding the wallet? I know I do. But then I'm in a small town and folks may just not realize that I'm crazy. After all I'm knitting a wool sweater in 100 plus degree weather and letting the tank top that's also on needles languish for the moment.
Posted by: Melissa | Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 07:28 PM
It'd only be worriesome if you then apologized that it was just some simple cascade 220 and not handspun.
Posted by: gale (she shoots sheep shots) | Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 07:58 PM
Is stash control even possible? I think not for me!
Posted by: Christina Scovel | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 07:23 AM