21 Rules We Should Suspend/Enforce One Day Each Year
#17 is a peeve of mine.
Even my ex-wife agrees that I am cursed with whatever line I pick at the grocery store.
This week I had an especially bad one.
The 15-items-or-fewer line was packed so I had to choose between two regular aisles. One looked empty so I went there.
As I approached the aisle a head popped up. Some women with whiley hair and an Eskimo-like coat had been bending over in her courtesy electric mobility cart.
Looking at her and instantly judging her I knew I should have changed aisles, but this was so much shorter, how bad could it be?
She did not have her shopping card. It was attached to her keys, so she drove her electric mobility cart back to the cart section, then she ran to her car.
When she jogged back in she laughed that she had left the keys in her car and the engine had been running the entire time.
All her groceries had been scanned, so we were waiting for her, so I didn't find it as amusing as she did.
Then she pulled out a stack of coupons.
Thank God she had a credit card (not a check), but she wouldn't scan it. She asked the cashier three times if her $5 coupon would print once she paid, and the cashier said it should. It wasn't until the cashier said they would fix it if it didn't print that she finally swiped her card.
When I was done and heading out of the building I couldn't exit right away because she and a friend decided to start talking right outside the door.
21 Rules We Should Suspend/Enforc
This is another example of you being old. Which ones don't you get?GORDON wrote:I don't understand a lot of the things in that list.
I'm all for 17, 14, 8, and 6.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
In freshman programming class I wrote a simulation of the checkout section of a grocery store. I never looked at checkout lines the same again, and am very good at picking the right one.Paul wrote:21 Rules We Should Suspend/Enforce One Day Each Year
#17 is a peeve of mine.
Even my ex-wife agrees that I am cursed with whatever line I pick at the grocery store.
This week I had an especially bad one.
The 15-items-or-fewer line was packed so I had to choose between two regular aisles. One looked empty so I went there.
As I approached the aisle a head popped up. Some women with whiley hair and an Eskimo-like coat had been bending over in her courtesy electric mobility cart.
Looking at her and instantly judging her I knew I should have changed aisles, but this was so much shorter, how bad could it be?
She did not have her shopping card. It was attached to her keys, so she drove her electric mobility cart back to the cart section, then she ran to her car.
When she jogged back in she laughed that she had left the keys in her car and the engine had been running the entire time.
All her groceries had been scanned, so we were waiting for her, so I didn't find it as amusing as she did.
Then she pulled out a stack of coupons.
Thank God she had a credit card (not a check), but she wouldn't scan it. She asked the cashier three times if her $5 coupon would print once she paid, and the cashier said it should. It wasn't until the cashier said they would fix it if it didn't print that she finally swiped her card.
When I was done and heading out of the building I couldn't exit right away because she and a friend decided to start talking right outside the door.
It's not me, it's someone else.