Supermarket Etiquette
So, I plonked my purchases down on the conveyor belt, behind the cheese and milk and yogurt and ice cream the person ahead of me was buying. I made sure there was one of those dividers on the belt so that we could ensure a barrier (not at all sterile, however) between our products. Happy with that, I waited for my turn to pay while reflecting on the fact that huge numbers of shoppers at No Frills seem only to buy pop. I'm talking entire carts filled with pop. It's insanity. Who can drink that much pop?
A few seconds later, this guy comes up behind me and puts his stuff down right on top of mine. He didn't wait for space or for one of those dividers. In fact, some of his things rolled ahead of mine. His salami was touching my green pepper!
I decided to wait to see if he would move his products back when the belt moved along: he didn't. I wondered if he was conducting some sort of sociological experiment in shopping. Soon, it was my turn to pay, and he made no move, so I have to push all of his stuff back along and place one of those dividers between our goods. He just stood there. What's up with that? He looked mentally competent, so I wondered how he could be so socially incompetent.
This is neat. The goal is to identify as many band names as possible. There are a lot.
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23 comments:
His salami was touching my green pepper.
Didn't know this was that type of blog!!
PS - Is everyone having problems with the Name: and Website: fields??
It works for me, but I have noticed that before. I am not sure what the hell is up with that.
I always put a divider behind my groceries as well as in front to avoid just such a problem. Otherwise someone else might end up with your tomates, and you might be stuck inadvertanly buying someones anchovies.
My husband has a friend who buys hundreds of cases of pop, or whatever's on sale.
LOL , I know the exact feeling ! Others groceries should remain in their alloted spaces.
One thing that really ,really bugs me ,is people that wait till after everything's been scanned & bagged ,they then spend an eternity looking for their purse /wallet credit cards !! .... well you do have to pay DUH !!!
That's horrible! I get mad if the person behind me even stands close to the conveyor! That's bad grocery store etiquette!
this reminds me of a Dostoevski book....
Which one? I've read all of Dostoyevsky and I can't place it.
My worst experience with bad supermarket etiquette was the woman who let her 5 yr old son walk on the outgoing conveyor, crushing the previous shoppers produce.
You don't get much call for DUH these days. Dolts abound! It never ceases to amaze me how rude some folks are... and it's just getting WORSE.
Other people make me furious.
Maybe he was trying to get you to pay for his stuff
That picture is cool. At first glance I saw, Guns & Roses, Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, Alice In Chains!
I'll play with this one!
Thanks!
Okay...
Black Flag, Matchbox 20, Cowboy Junkies, Men At Work...
Still thinking... The gorillas are throwing me off, as is the queen holding the two pink vibrators. WTF is that all about??
Okay!
Radiohead, The Pixies, Ratt, Dead Kennedy's, Seal, The Police, Twisted Sister, White Zombie, Black Crowes, Garbage, The Cars, Indigo Girls, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lemmonheads, Korn, U2, Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols...
This is too much fun!
I was thinking of Notes from the Underground.
I don't know what is worse,the montane subject matter,or the fact that so many peole have no lifes that they actually stop and read this kind of worthless trival.
I review Blogs,that's what they pay me for anyhow,and I am always in search for some new talent.
I send my reviews to over 400 Yahoo and Google groups all over the world,thereby promoting myself by promoting them,so if you know where I can find a good blog that as an original theme backed by good writing with at least an attempt at originality(see past reviews for sample)let me know!Must dash,the search continues,there's nothing here so....
There's so much to get annoyed about in supermarkets that it's difficult to know where to start, or which thing is the most infuriating.
In relation to getting to the check-out, I get so pissed-off with people who DO NOT move their groceries along the conveyer belt, which means that the person behind them can't start unloading their groceries - some idiots just stand their with an almost empty conveyer belt in front of them, and hold up the entire process. Eeeecckk!
Now don't get me started on people who feel the need to stand right in the middle of an aisle and then feel compelled to bend over and study something on the shelf for half an hour, thereby blocking the entire aisle for all traffic.
Hey, if you go to Sam Clemens blog, all that's there is one review, no archives, and a bunch of self important/promoting shit. What a total loser!
Sam, have you read my entire blog, over 300 posts? Didn't think so. Did I say anywhere that I was attempting to write something other than "worthless trivia?" No. So, your opinion means shit.
How about this: I have been published at last two dozen times in popular, trade, and academic journals. Did it ever occur to you that a blog might have a different purpose? Obviously not.
I am not sure I can respect the opinion of a man who has a blog with only a handful of posts, tha last written over three weeks ago.
Besides, if you were a good reviewer, you would offer constructive criticism and not insults. Yes, I have published several book reviews too in real publications, not self-published and congratulatory online junk like your so-called reviews.
You are the one that clearly has no life. You know nothing of mine or the people who comment here, so take your garbage comments elsewhere and don't read this blog. Your comment here makes you look like a big loser. So, screw off.
SIC 'EM, ZF!!
OK: Confesssion time: I fence my things in with a divider before and after the food items. I usually don't wait for the next person to put it up, because I've been charged for someone else's things too many times and it takes time while (the ice cream- forgot pop) is melting to redo the ticket.
I think I already told you Dostoyevsky wrote one of my alltime favorite books. (C & P)
This is my other name for my other blog.
SilvermOOn aka Green-Eyed Lady
:)
I know why they buy so much soda. They are alcoholics!
No joke. We go through a case of rum a month and just as many 2liters.
..just the truth man *nod*
Maybe that is the way they do it at grocery stores in Montane ;)
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