I love Bounce!

There is a "grocery store" called Giant a couple of blocks away from Brooksie's complex. It is actually like a Wal-mart meets a grocery store. It has everything. It sells refrigerators, kitchen appliances, linens, bicycles, furniture, carpets, clothes, bakery, seafood market, butcher shop, produce, and everything in between. It is amazing how many western products the store carries. They love Kit Kats here. I think it is because a traditional Malay cookie is a waffle styled cookie so smother that in chocolate, and it's a Malaysian sweet tooth's dream come true. Anyway, as I was saying, they have all of the western brands here: Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, Luminarc glasses, Bausch & Lomb saline solution, Dove soap, Old El Paso, Prego spaghetti sauce, Downy fabric softener, etc. The first time I went to Giant I was all prepared for a wonderful cultural experience. Like Costco and Sam's Club, the Giant has samplers everywhere. The first sampler I came to asked if I would like to try Campbells Chicken & Mushroom soup! I was crestfallen! I flew halfway around the world for Campbells Soup!!!

I went another time to pick up a few things. Bounce dryer sheets was on my list. Unfortunately, they didn't have any. When Brooksie & I went to the other grocery store, Cold Storage, I looked again. Still no luck. I love Bounce dryer sheets. I love the way they make your clothes smell. So my next trip to Giant I again searched for my beloved Bounce. Again to no avail. I was baffled. Walking up and down the aisle searching for my dryer sheets. Wondering why they would have I Can't Beleive It's Not Butter but not Bounce. Then it dawned on me...

Nobody has dryers. They all hang their clothes out to air dry! It only took me two weeks to figure that out. Two weeks and a hundred buildings like this one across the street from us.

This is Brooksie's complex.