When you go to Lowes, ask them for help in loading the soil bags into your car. They will assist you, but you must ask.
I have to be able to get them out of the trunk so I buy the smaller bags I can lift. After I get them home, I can put four in a rolling shopping bag of a thing and take them in and go back and get more until I have them all on the back deck under the roof.
It was cloudy this morning, not hot, so I gassed up the car in the cool and went to Lowes to get potting soil mix and those 6 wonderful pots I got for $2+. The garden area outside door was locked. Damn. Went in main store and got the pots and took them to car. Had to go back in regular store door and walk to the back to go in gardening area from the back - they were repairing/replacing some of the roof in the garden area so that was roped off. Put the potting soil in cart and went back into the store proper in order to check out.
An older male clerk walked to the front with me and said he couldn't lift anything with his left arm as he had pulled some muscles on that side while on an exercise machine and his arm and ribs hurt. rightly, I thought about you and your hurting muscles from falling.
This clerk sounded like he needed some encouragement about his pain, so I said I had been an EMT and I knew how that must hurt. Then, he told me his whole medical problems as we were still heading to check out. By the time we got to check out, I told him to go back to his heart doctor and get that heart cath that had been recommended by the hospital when he had to go there, so he would know he is okay or must have the stint before he does have a heart attack.
So, I'm walking out with the bags in the cart and here he comes to help me put the bags in the trunk - using his right arm. He just felt he had to help me and he thanked me for talking to him. I think he will go to the heart doctor now - he just needed someone to say that.
Those 6 pots I got for $2+ instead of $13, are so strong, they will be here for another 200 years or more. That was a super buy. Even the clerk looked at that and commented about the pots for that small amount of money.
Then, it was off to Home Depot. It is still cool outside. I was going to park in a handicapped spot and someone got that one so had to drive to the next aisle and pulled in one there. Walked in the nearest door and that was the exact spot I needed to be to pick up an on line order.
As that process was ongoing, the lady clerk, maybe in her 30s, told me my pink blouse brought out the rose in my skin and I was so beautiful. I told her I had on no makeup and I was 80. Then, she tells others around her I am 80 and they don't believe it. Clerk wanted to know what I did to my skin for it to be this way - told her I stayed out of the sun (that is my stock answer to that question). I finally made it out of the store with my adoring fans left in there. That was the two long planters for lettuce. (No, I did not feel beautiful, I just wanted the planters so I could go home.)
The sun is out now and I won't unload the car trunk until the sun goes down this evening. I think I did a good deed for the hurting male clerk so he will go to his heart doctor. He is frightened about his heart so he needs to get the cath and know the truth instead of worrying all the time.