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Left at the Altar
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The other thing that pisses me off is the person who stands with a small basket of things in a queue looking just like anyone else. Usually a woman. Because she does not have much, you decide to join the queue she's in, because you'll have less time to wait than if you join another queue.
Then, 5 minutes later, her husband rocks up with a full trolley and nudges in with her. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
I usually say "Well, that's nice, isn't it?" But maybe I'll be more aggressive, just so I can face Gort.
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Idea:
Take a rosary to the grocery store with you. If stuck behind the Nefarious Nun*, pull it out and quietly--but ostentatiously--pray it. See how many times you can get through it. Occasionally give the sister Meaningful Looks.
![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
*Doesn't that sound like a Perry Mason episode?
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Left at the Altar
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If only I had the faintest clue of how to pray to a rosary, I'd do it. But I'd probably be struck down by a bolt of lightning.
Skew, I feel the need to say Welcome, even though this is Hell, where welcomes are few and far between (you are very brave, having your first two posts in Hell. I see great things ahead for you). So Welcome, fellow inhabitant of the supermarket.
Do you have any tips for crabby shoppers, apart from "Don't do it on Saturday"? Actually, Sunday at 6pm is infinitely worse.
ETA. Coles' queues are MUCH worse than Woolies'.
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Foaming Draught
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It's possible, of course, that she's got another 97 items concealed under her habit. I know people who do that sort of thing with library books.
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Left at the Altar
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FD, I am quite happy for her to steal 97 items, as long as she only checks through ten or less.
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Take a rosary to the grocery store with you. If stuck behind the Nefarious Nun*, pull it out and quietly--but ostentatiously--pray it. See how many times you can get through it. Occasionally give the sister Meaningful Looks.
*Doesn't that sound like a Perry Mason episode?
No. It sounds more like a failed episode of Myth Busters.
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Originally posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow:
Personally, I would slip a packet of nice bright ribbed condoms into her trolley when she wasn't looking... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
A creative solution. Don't forget the lube.
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Left at the Altar
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And a pregnancy Home-test kit.
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If the supermarket that LATA refers to is the one I think it is, I wouldn't dare confront anyone about the number of items they have. There used to be some seriously scary people pushing trolleys round that place. What if she's some sort of hit-nun?
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Left at the Altar
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I wouldn't call it that scary. I've been in scarier company. But there are weirdos there. She is sturdy, but hardly a killer. At least, I think she's hardly a killer. But perhaps her family sent her here until the publicity about the string of hits she performed back home dies down. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) Maybe someone confronted her in a Beirut supermarket and she blew his head off and then went on a killing rampage through the aisles.
That would explain a lot.
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Don't your jars of honey come with tamper-proof seals? I'm suddenly glad most of them do.....
It's all the fault of the Laugh Judgement board - when I read the OP, I had a mental image of the nun in the checkout queue with 97 zucchinis in her trolley ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Nuns don't usually have husbands, in my humble experience.
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Originally posted by Foaming Draught:
It's possible, of course, that she's got another 97 items concealed under her habit. I know people who do that sort of thing with library books.
I can't imagine who you mean!
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Occasionally virtue is its own reward. Having had my eyes opened by other shipmates some time back, I now buy only free-trade and organic items at the locally owned health food store on the corner. Aside from my cigarettes which I get at the convenience market.
I have never seen a nun in either place. Of course I'm still not convinced that LAtA has either. And nobody buys 96 items. They couldn't afford to at those prices.
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
The other thing that pisses me off
The individual stands in line until their turn, stands there until all their items are rung up, all the while with thumb up bum utterly oblivious that their part of the transaction is producing money.
When the cashier has totalled the items and states the amount due, it comes as a surprise.
Once the shock wears off, they begin to scrounge through their bag for their checkbook, and then for their pen, and eventually begin the process of writing it out.
This is the unforgiveable sin, I'm sure.
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Interesting. I don't think I've seen anyone write cheques in supermarkets for a few years now. It's either plastic cards or cash, or else if you do have a cheque book the till will print the details on your cheque for you.
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Actually putting condoms in hubby's trolley would work nicely as well, provided there were none before.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I don't think I've seen anyone write cheques in supermarkets for a few years now.
Well, it does stand to reason these people aren't on the cutting edge of currency technology.
But even some 'cash only' types wait til the last minute to dig out fistfuls of coins and sling them onto the counter for the poor cashier to sort through.
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Originally posted by Ian Climacus:
What a dastardly nun. Though given all the sisters I have met are wondrous, I suspect this 'nun' may in fact be a lay person who bought the costume for a fancy dress party and is now using it for nefarious purposes.
We have an enormous fat 'nun' who sits in her wheelchair thing in town and sings hymns very loudly. Rumour has it that she isn't a real one.
The supermarket near me has the sign 'about ten items'. How dumb is that? Someone might argue that 97 items is 'about' 10 items (when compared to 7408 items).
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Originally posted by Pânts:
We have an enormous fat 'nun' who sits in her wheelchair thing in town and sings hymns very loudly. Rumour has it that she isn't a real one.
Tangent alert: If she is the one they nickname the 'Flying Nun', she is NOT a real Nun. She also has a keyboard that she sometimes carries and plays on the scooter-thingy while singing hymns. She also shops in Tesco's - however I have only ever seen her in the 'more than ten items' queue. <End tangent>
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
Do you have any tips for crabby shoppers, apart from "Don't do it on Saturday"? Actually, Sunday at 6pm is infinitely worse.
Coming from a place where the shopping week ends at 4pm on Sunday, 5pm Saturday for me is pretty bad, particularly when that shopper that believes that since the doors shut at 5pm, if they can get in while the door is shutting that it's fine to go through the shop and fill their trolley.
And yeah, crabby shoppers might want to stay away from my register as well, particularly if they are annoyed that they are going to miss their bus, and feel that it is my problem that they couldn't organise their shopping on a day that wasn't busy. I really don't care, and quite frankly I actually slow down. As much as they're absolutely ticked off with the service they are receiving from Woolies, they are the people that will be back next week, with the same bus that they are running late for.
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Round about 4am on a Saturday is good. The shelves are mostly stacked and there's still hardly anyone around. Mind you I only ever made it that early when I was working nights.
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Originally posted by HopPik:
Round about 4am on a Saturday is good. The shelves are mostly stacked and there's still hardly anyone around. Mind you I only ever made it that early when I was working nights.
That's not early! Its late.
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Originally posted by Cusanus:
If the supermarket that LATA refers to is the one I think it is, I wouldn't dare confront anyone about the number of items they have. There used to be some seriously scary people pushing trolleys round that place. What if she's some sort of hit-nun?
Someone got kicked to death for being rude in the queue in our local Tesco's.
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Ah yes the dipshit that loves to get in the “express lane” with a full trolley o’ crap.
When I was a student, I worked for a supermarket in one of Sydney’s less genteel areas. We were often told about robberies and hold ups and what-not. But honestly what I was more afraid of was what we called "trolley rage"
We had security come break up a few incidents. The minor ones were just entertainment. The not so minor ones... *shudder*
Now I am grateful for the occasional bout of insomnia that co-exists with a local 24hr supermarket. Okay, I might have to step over a few boxes but it's often very empty and a bit twillight zone-esque. Very nice. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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I confess that I will often get into the "Express" line at my local supermarket when I have a few more than the allowed number of items. But I will never try to sneak in with a whole shopping cart full of stuff. That is thoughtless and inexcusable, and the perpetrator should be marched out to the parking lot and roundly pelted with everything that was in the cart.
The person who annoys me the most, though, is the customer who forces the cashier to stop and do a price check on some item because the customer thinks it is on special when it is actually not on special and the customer would know this if he/she actually stopped to READ the notices properly. Everybody in line behind this person has to wait several minutes while someone goes back and checks the price of the item. Of course, many times the customer then decides he/she doesn't want the item, and the cashier has to take even more time to void it.
Supermarket shopping is a pothole in the road of life.
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Spiffy
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quote:
Originally posted by Gort:
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Take a rosary to the grocery store with you. If stuck behind the Nefarious Nun*, pull it out and quietly--but ostentatiously--pray it. See how many times you can get through it. Occasionally give the sister Meaningful Looks.
*Doesn't that sound like a Perry Mason episode?
No. It sounds more like a failed episode of Myth Busters.
Everyone knows that an episode of Mythbusters must include something catastrophically exploding.
Hmmm, now there's an idea of how to take care of the line-monkeys. Install some M-18 Claymores. FIRE IN THE HOLE! *pokpokpokkaBOOM!*
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Originally posted by Spiffy da Wonder Sheep:
Everyone knows that an episode of Mythbusters must include something catastrophically exploding.
Indeed. I gave up on Mythbusters after they blew up a sheep's stomach (sorry Spiff) to test the story that a kid had exploded after swallowing a vast amount of Space Dust (the fizzy crackly stuff) followed by several cans of Coke.
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Ahhh...supermarket lines...I've never dealt with nuns there, but I did have an encounter with a person in front of me who looked like your typical SWOL (Sweet Wee Old Lady) but was most certainly short on the sweet that day. After her items were on the belt I put down one of those little bar things that separates people's groceries, and was starting to put down my items. She took great umbrage to this. Glaring at me she hissed "too close too close!" grabbed the grapefruit I had put down and threw it back in my basket....
Maybe she was a nun.
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Checkout line rage is often a serious thing here in NYC where patience is always in short supply. I saw a woman almost get throttled to death the other day when she butted into a line with a cart full of stuff. She had apparently gotten out of line (with her cart) to make a cell phone call and then tried to get back in at the same place. Several people had gotten in line while she was away and when she barrelled right up to the front without so much as a howdy-do, you can imagine the reaction. I and a few others had gotten into that line thinking it was the shortest one with the other people ahead having just a few items in their carts, then she butts in with her 97 or so items. "I had to make a call to my son and couldn't get any reception in line" was her excuse. I have never seen such cajones on a woman in my life. She managed to stand her ground despite the barrage of abuse she got from several people, including me. And the checkout lady refused to get involved.
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Originally posted by HopPik:
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Originally posted by Spiffy da Wonder Sheep:
Everyone knows that an episode of Mythbusters must include something catastrophically exploding.
Indeed. I gave up on Mythbusters after they blew up a sheep's stomach (sorry Spiff) to test the story that a kid had exploded after swallowing a vast amount of Space Dust (the fizzy crackly stuff) followed by several cans of Coke.
'sokay, I'm attempting to explode my own stomach today, however I'm using a rather large plate of yakisoba and oatmeal cookies. Urp. 'scuse.
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Ultraspike: quote:
And the checkout lady refused to get involved.
I wasn't a check-out line clerk, but worked at times at a jewelry counter in a discount department store. I learned early on to say, "Who's next?" rather than assume I'd remember the right order of arrivals. I'd let them stare down each other until a winner emerged. I didn't get paid enough to put up with that kind of crap.
My favorite instance was when I worked in a small store, often alone. A woman came in and shopped around, asked me few questions. Another woman came in, knew what she wanted and took it ip to the register. I excused myself from the first woman, went and rung up the lady at the counter. Afterward the first lady chastised me. "You should have rung me up first [not that she was ready at that point] since I came into the store first." I politely explained that store policy was to check out whoever comes up to the cash register counter first. She wasn't convinced and evidently considered me the height of boorishness. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Woolies and Coles give vouchers for 4c per litre off petrol if one spends $30 or more. A problem in the 10 items or fewer checkout is getting the basket up to $30 worth of groceries. When the cashier says, "$29.65", I have to climb back out of the waiting queue to find a chocolate elephant or something for 35c.
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Originally posted by Gort:
No. It sounds more like a failed episode of Myth Busters.
I wouldn't think that it's possible to have a failed episode of Myth Busters since, from what I can tell, there's never any footage that they shoot that they don't actually use. And Kari's a babe, so there's that too. Of course, most of the time we locals are just trying to figure out exactly where the antics were shot on each week's episode. If the Wayanses actually do construct their In Living Color themepark at the old naval station in Alameda, who knows where Mythbuster's will be able to shoot their major stunts.
OT: any one know the exact wording on Trader Joes' express lanes? It's something like "10 items. A few more, a few less, no big deal." Gah! It makes me want to weep every time I see it. What's the point of having such a lane if you're not even going to try to set some limits?
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Originally posted by Mertseger:
OT: any one know the exact wording on Trader Joes' express lanes? It's something like "10 items. A few more, a few less, no big deal." Gah! It makes me want to weep every time I see it. What's the point of having such a lane if you're not even going to try to set some limits?
Someone here has control issues, I'm thinking.
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[Tangent]Fans of Myth Busters: feel free to join the Aussie thread Monday/Tuesday when some of us talk about it. Great show![/Tangent]
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Left at the Altar
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Another irritating supermarket dweller is the aisle-blocker, who parks his/her trolley in such a fashion that nobody can get past, while s/he spends 10 minutes deciding which branch of tomato paste to buy. If you say, "Excuse me, could I get past please?", they glare at you.
Maybe I ought to think about on-line shopping.
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Try this trick, next time you want to clear out the queues: Park your cart by a cash register that is closed; preferably one far from the busy ones. Somewhere near the cash register (usually hanging on a vertical support) you will see a phone.
Pick it up and look for the Public Address button. Announce in happy voice, "Attention shoppers!! For the next 10 minutes only, Beef Ribeye Steaks at the meat counter are free!! We're clearing our stock! Next 10 minutes only!!"
Casually push your cart up to the suddenly empty check out stand. Simple, huh?
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Living in Gin
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Back in high school, I spent the better part of a year working as a cashier at a Winn-Dixie supermarket in Jacksonville, Florida. The only thing more obnoxious than the customers were my fellow employees. 13 years later, I still remember them:
Jane, the surly cashier whose beehive hairdo reached halfway to the ceiling, and Helga, the cashier who'd scream for a price check over the PA with a shrill German accent. Jane and Helga always worked the same shift, and always got checkout lanes next to each other.
There was Judy, the evangelical born-again Roman Catholic who made Ratzinger look like Jack Spong, and who would never miss any opportunity to tell us how wrong we were about everything.
Our co-manager Ray, who despite being skinny as a rail, had a reputation for running down and tackling shoplifters out in the parking lot. He also sounded exactly like Huckleberry Hound when he spoke.
There were many others... But the Monarch of Wierdness was Jerry, our store manager. The stories I could tell about him:
- He looked exactly like King Vitaman.
- He once worked for the corporate headquarters across town, but got caught getting head from a young subordinate and was demoted to store manager. (Only reason he didn't get fired was because he owned so much stock in the company.)
- He constantly drank Winn-Dixie brand mouthwash in the office because they wouldn't let him bring booze into the store.
- He always had very fresh breath.
- He once clipped off a bagger's mullet in the store office, against the bagger's will.
- He was a notorious cheapskate, and insisted that the baggers fit three two-liter bottles of soda per plastic bag, to save money on bags.
- He once broke the arm of the Breyer's ice cream vendor over a dispute about melted ice cream.
- He would sing along with Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald whenever it came on the muzak system, often encouraging other employees to sing along with him.
- Nobody knew for sure, but there were regular rumors that he was shagging our very sexy head cashier (no pun intended).
I could go on, but you get the idea... We (the baggers and cashiers) even had a secret King Vitaman cult in the stock room which entailed elaborate rituals for new hires involving boxes of King Vitaman cereal and cardboard Burger King crowns.
Apparently he passed away a few years ago, Winn-Dixie is now bankrupt, that particular store has been closed, and Quaker has re-designed the King Vitaman cereal box. Life just ain't the same... ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
Another irritating supermarket dweller is the aisle-blocker, who parks his/her trolley in such a fashion that nobody can get past, while s/he spends 10 minutes deciding which branch of tomato paste to buy.
A remedy: "Send" the offending wagon as if "sending" a croquet ball. All the better if the "sent" wagon crashes into a canned goods display which then cascades to the floor.
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
Another irritating supermarket dweller is the aisle-blocker, who parks his/her trolley in such a fashion that nobody can get past, while s/he spends 10 minutes deciding which branch of tomato paste to buy. If you say, "Excuse me, could I get past please?", they glare at you.
Maybe I ought to think about on-line shopping.
At our local supermarkets, it's not the shopping carts that block the aisles as much as the boxes and stacks of items that the employees store there, probably figuring this way they can load the shelves without having to go to the storeroom every time.
This turns almost every aisle into an obstacle course.
We have all more or less learned to cope with this in an amazingly polite way, considering that we are New Yorkers.
But it would be great not to have to skirt around piled-up boxes of fruit juice, cat food, laundry detergent, toilet paper, tuna fish and whatever else every time we want to roll a shopping cart down a supermarket aisle.
The trouble is that New Yorkers have no concept of space and how to use it. To a New York business person, empty space is just one more place to put something. If you are even remotely claustophobic, this is not the place to go shopping.
Pax Romana
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The Riv
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Some unhellish thoughts: why not ask your store manager to change the qualification of the express lanes to "Single Hand Baskets Only -- No Carts, Please. Thank you." Quantify the groceries by cubic volume, not number of items. You wouldn't have the need to obsess about items 11+. You could rest in the knowledge that the people in front of you would progress at a reasonable pace, surely some quicker than others, but none longer than the time needed to empty one hand basket. And, the store could narrow that queue enough so that a push cart would not fit.
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mousethief
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I hate to say this, but that's a fabulous idea, The Riv! Solves the problem in a simple but elegant way.
I think I shall now go have a little lie-down. I'm feeling a bit woozy.
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RuthW
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It sounds good, but as soon as you get one person in a wheelchair who wants to buy three small items and can't get through the aisle of the express lane, the store is in trouble.
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cocktailgirl
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Lots of checkouts in the UK are 'baskets only'. Do they not have those in the States?
Sign me up as another whose blood boils over '10 items or less' signs. FEWER. It's not hard.
And I confess that the last two times I've been in supermarkets with my dog collar on, only buying a couple of items, people have let me ahead in the queue. Should I feel I am abusing my position (I didn't ask if I could queue jump) or just bask in the warm feeling that my compatriots are simply Lovely People™?
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Peronel
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Except some people - my grandmother for one - cannot manage to carry a basket, but can push a trolley.
A thousand curses on the officious idiot who yelled at her as she stood in the baskets only queue, with a trolly with two items in it. Let him try being elderly and frail and see how he likes it.
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Pax Romana:
The trouble is that New Yorkers have no concept of space and how to use it. To a New York business person, empty space is just one more place to put something. If you are even remotely claustophobic, this is not the place to go shopping.
It's not a New York thing. Grocery stores in the spacious west are just as bad.
cocktailgirl: No, the express lanes don't say "baskets only," it's all done by the number of items you've got. And they all say "or less" and it makes me nuts. Someday I'm going to go to the store with a permanent marker and edit all the signs.
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Originally posted by cocktailgirl:
And I confess that the last two times I've been in supermarkets with my dog collar on, only buying a couple of items, people have let me ahead in the queue. Should I feel I am abusing my position (I didn't ask if I could queue jump) or just bask in the warm feeling that my compatriots are simply Lovely People™?
They're proponents of Works Righteousness. If it makes you feel good to take advantage of their heretical leanings, have at it!
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