Last Saturday, I was that asshole: I chose a shopping cart at Target with a bad caster that alternated between making a loud clattering sound and a high pitched shriek, and I was too lazy to switch carts, instead I suffered the frowns of employees and shoppers alike-- it was early-- AND I got into the "express" lane at the grocery store and before I realized that I had more than twelve items, there was a line behind me . . . I thought I didn't have much but I did -- six bottles of seltzer, four cans of SpaghettiOs, two things of lunch meat, rolls, a loaf of bread, hot pepper rings, two packs of paper plates and a pack of paper cups-- for a grand total of eighteen items-- 50% more than the limit; once I realized my transgression I turned bright red, and all I could do was bag really fast and race out of the store, the shrieking caster broadcasting my shame.
This reminds me of the guy who said "I just let those free newspapers lay on the front sidewalk until they're gone. I didn't ask for them. Why should I pick them up?"
ReplyDeleteI used to work in a grocery store - and according to shop rite logic - you really only had eight items..
ReplyDeleteDidn't you know that multiples of the same thing still count as one thing?
i think that's why i got into that line in the first place-- but then i decided that was ridiculous: an item is an item . . .
ReplyDeletewas i the one who said that about the free newspapers?
and i've been thinking about this-- if i had forty five bottles of seltzer it would count as one item?
ReplyDeleteYou don't remember? That was when you were a renter. Things are different now.
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