If you go on the knee scooter, then you can’t push the grocery cart and keep your balance and/or scoot on the scooter.  If you go on crutches its even worse because if you push the grocery cart, then you have to let go of the crutches.  You get the picture.  In order to shop you have to have assistance.  This can come in the form of helpful children or maybe your significant other. Or, if you don’t have either, the store clerks, shoppers, etc. all are willing to offer advice about how to conquer this feat.

Rolling through the store to get groceries also causes another problem…if you pick up things to put in the basket, you have to scoot one handed….and reach the cart with your item without dropping it or tipping over on the scooter.  Sounds simple right?  Try this…pick up a loaf of bread and one other item in one hand, stand on one leg and hop to where you would drop off the item…the cart if it were there.  Sometimes your helpers have gone on without you and you have to catch up.  The one legged race then becomes aerobics as you take on skateboard speed rolling down the aisle catching up with the cart.  It can be so much fun!