Didn't I pick you up in the grocery store? 'Cause you're hot like salsa!

This morning I was browsing through Seattletimes.com in my usual morning coffee/Internet surfing ritual. In the Living section, I came across this link: Tips on picking up a fresh item at supermarket Singles Night , and immediately my interest was peeked. A Singles Night at the grocery store? Sounds interesting, fun and a possible way to snag a hottie. I know the grocery stores I frequent in Queen Anne are constantly swarming with good-looking men—especially Trader Joes—but, while they say the grocery store is a good place to pick someone up, how does one go about doing this?

I’ve certainly caught eyes before with a dark-headed type in the produce department, or lingered a little bit longer in the soup isle. But, when does one step over the line from just eyeing someone at the grocery store, to actually making a move? How do you know that they aren’t shopping for a romantic dinner with their gorgeous and fabulous girlfriend?

I clicked on the link in the hopes of discovering the Seattle-based grocery store that could be so genius—immediately ready to add the date to my calendar. I was overwhelmingly disappointed though to discover that a journalist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in Milwaukee, wrote it. Boo. Why can’t a grocery store in Seattle, better yet, Queen Anne, hold a Singles Night? I mean the idea is freaking brilliant. The night goes a little like this:

Singles just show up. It's free. Each person gets a number to wear and a nametag. A disc jockey will play tunes while you wander around and pretend to shop as usual while sampling chocolate-covered cherries, pastries, shrimp mini-kabobs, baked Brie and sparkling wine.

If they see someone they like, they can add the opportunity to connect to their carts by telling the video date wrangler to post a message on a large video screen near the windows of the liquor store. Here you'll also receive messages from those who have a hunger to meet you.

Sounds fun, huh? Now who wouldn’t want to meet someone hot at the grocery store? Makes for a better story than an Internet site, in my opinion. The article suggested a few pick-up lines to use:

"Nice wheels."
"Any idea what kind of wine goes with ahi?"
"What is ahi?"
"How can you tell if these are ripe?"

And certain ones to avoid:

Where's the pickled herring?"
"How many boxes of extra large, instant macaroni and cheese do you have in stock? Mom and I eat that every night."
"Which way to the pharmacy aisles? I need something for this rash."
"Oh, darn, that's the last bottle of Beano. I need at least two."

But, I prefer something a little saucier that goes right to the point, so I’ve compiled these:

"Do you eat lots of Lucky Charms? Because you look magically delicious."

"Do you have any raisins? No? How about a date?"

"I know I'm not a grocery item but I can tell when you're checking me out."

"If this grocery store is a meat market, you must be the prime rib."

"Let's make like that Fabric softener and Snuggle!"

"I don't care *how* many items you've got, baby, I could check you out all day long!"

"May I use those melons for my Fruit of the Loom salad?"

"How about a little roll in the Bakery Department?"

"I've got some meat here that's 'Best if used by tonight.'"

"What a small world! I belong to the Safeway Club, too!"

"Baby, you better get out of that express lane, 'cause you're all that *and* a bag of chips."

"Pssst! My piggly is wiggly."

Happy Shopping!