Does carrying groceries prevent you from other important activities?

Why, when I was a little wee lad, if you got in a man's yard, he'd beat you within an inch of your life with a rake, a hoe, a board with a rusty nail in it, hell, whatever he could get his hand on. My old papaw'd take his belt offn beatcha half dead right there on mainstreet while the cops ate their pie in Woolworths. Nowadays they don't do squat. I saw five hooligans FIVE jackassing around in old man Thubburt's yard. ooooooo if I'd had a ballpeen hammer I would have laid into the little lollygaggers. But I had groceries to carry in.