The grocery store disgusts me sometimes...

[Tora Ziyal]

I once parked in the garage at a mall that I wasn't very familiar with. When I came out, I pretty much panicked -- I had no idea where I'd parked, and I was about to be late for a medical app't. I ended up asking a security guy for help. He was very nice about it, but it was still very embarrassing.

 

[Kestra]

It's scary to me that such a person is out there sharing the road with me.

What, an elderly woman who doesn't know what make her car is? How does that in any way affect her driving?

For all you know it wasn't even her car, but someone's car that she borrowed. I don't know half the details about my husband's car that I did with my own.

Do you know how many doors your husband's car has? If not, you probably shouldn't be on the road.

You honestly think he didn't embellish that story at all?

 

[Colonel Green]

What, an elderly woman who doesn't know what make her car is? How does that in any way affect her driving?

For all you know it wasn't even her car, but someone's car that she borrowed. I don't know half the details about my husband's car that I did with my own.

Do you know how many doors your husband's car has? If not, you probably shouldn't be on the road.

You honestly think he didn't embellish that story at all?

I wish I could say I'm certain he did.

I worked at a gas station for a year and I saw more than a few seniors who were clearly suffering from dementia and shouldn't have been on the road. I'll always remember the one gentleman who forgot how to operate the gas pump. I went out to help him and it took me a minute or two to realize that it wasn't the card reader or selecting the grade of fuel that was the problem (common problems as pumps vary from station to station), but that he had forgotten that he had to pull the trigger on the nozzle to make the gas flow.

The one thing about fueling a car that probably hasn't changed one iota since he'd gotten his licence, and he couldn't remember how to do it. Didn't give me a lot of confidence in his ability to distinguish between the gas and brake pedals.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

I got to "hayness" and just gave up. By the general attitude of the rest of the thread I'd say I didn't miss much.

 

[ThankQ]

Yeah, but how nice is it when you go home and make fun of her to a bunch of strangers?

Look, I don't want to turn this into another thread about having a go at Trekker. I didn't like stuff in the OP either. I'm just sick of people being so critical and harsh towards people they don't even know.

I understand, and I'm with you. I also understand that grocery store guys have to put up with a TON of bullshit. Not only from customers, but from store directors who think they're kings and assistant managers who develop god complexes the moment they get that $1.55/hour raise. They pay people shit and expect groveling thanks and unflappable loyalty. I have a soft spot for the grocery store employees...

and old ladies.

 

[Balrog]

I dunno, if I had totally forgotten where I parked my car, I'd be too embarrassed by my own stupidity to ask anyone for help finding it.

That's because you're a man.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I dunno, if I had totally forgotten where I parked my car, I'd be too embarrassed by my own stupidity to ask anyone for help finding it.

That's because you're a man.

Now, now, did Colombus need help finding India?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I have a tip for supermarket workers such as myself. This is a great way to relieve stress on the job:

Throw Angry Birds toys at people at random moments. It is usually prudent to limit this to coworkers, though.

You know what disgusts me?

The Yankees...

There's nothing wrong with hating the Yankees. That being said, following Mr. Laser Beam around the board making repeated off-topic remarks to him about it, including some comments insulting him, could be construed as trolling. Knock it off or you'll end up with an infraction.

If you have any comments on this PM me. Do not discuss it any further in the thread.

 

[Gothowitz]

The only other shoppers in the store are a couple of stoners buying a dozen boxes of Oreos.

I think Stoners traditionally buy Doritos and Mountain Dew.
Methheads buy sugar in mass quantities.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Depending on where you are, a grocery store can be a truly nasty place. Not because of the employees, but due to the customers who don't feel the need to put things back where they got them when they have a change of mind. Grocery stores do not have people who follow customers around all the time--in fact, they'd be criticized if they did--so I've seen hamburger rotting in a cereal aisle, or a carton of ice cream left to melt in the soap aisle. Such things are probably disposed of as soon as an employee sees them, but that could take several hours and by then it's not a pretty sight.

And I can tell it's not the store that losses out. Just like to cover shop lifting the customer pays for it. In the price of other products.

I recall reading somewhere that some stores can lose thousands of dollars a day--I think they call it shrinkage (or something like that)--and they pass that cost to customers.

I was at the grocery store last night and saw an abandonded basket sitting on top of some other baskets with milk in it. It had been sitting there for a while.

You change your mind but you're so damn lazy you just let the milk spoil and now the store has to throw it away and they can't make any money off of it. And to top it all off, the milk fridge was like 10 feet away! Who does stuff like that?

I think it's people who don't care or assume that there's someone that will immediately come around and put it back for them.

 

[MacLeod]

^It's the same with car insurance, my premium would be at least £30 cheaper if I didn't have to cover those who think having it doesn't apply to them.

As for dumping products you no longer want I see 3 options

1.>Take it back yourslef.
2.>Hand it it the next member of staff you see.
3.>Wait till you get to the checkout and tell the member of staff there you've changed your mind.

 

[voyagergrl3193]

So sorry for my choppy vocabulary.

You seem to have missed the main point, that some of us are questioning your attitude towards people who were annoying and perhaps acting inappropriately, but did you no harm.

Have you ever known a person with dementia? A caregiver of such a person? If not, you can't understand the stress involved. Should it be taken out on strangers in public? Of course not. But sometimes people under stress lose control.

(Like posters who go on tirades about other peoples' weight. Why are you so interested in a total stranger's weight? What
business is it of yours?)

That may or may not be what was going on there. But consider the possibility. Have a little compassion!

BTW, I found your "mooching" comment to be quite interesting after I read elsewhere that you are unemployed and apparently living with your mother. Doing a little projecting, perhaps?

Now now, that's no reason to be rude towards me there. All I was merely doing was stating an opinion in a miscellaneus thread here on TBBS and now I'm being ridiculed for having an opinion?? I find THAT very fascinating myself. So there's no reason to be rude at me for just stating an opinion. I know now that I guess I should have THOUGHT about it BEFORE typing it on a TBBS board and also should have PROOFREAD it before posting it..for that I apologize. Being unemployed and everything has nothing to do with what I was saying to begin with. That's why I typed that I all I was doing was "venting" about the public. Yes, ok, maybe I should have re-worded it in a better way, but don't throw this back in my face about being unemployed. There's no reason for snarkiness.

 

[Pingfah]

Now now, that's no reason to be rude towards me there. All I was merely doing was stating an opinion in a miscellaneus thread here on TBBS and now I'm being ridiculed for having an opinion??

No, your opinion is being ridiculed, big difference.

 

[ThankQ]

Now now, that's no reason to be rude towards me there. All I was merely doing was stating an opinion in a miscellaneus thread here on TBBS and now I'm being ridiculed for having an opinion?

No. People aren't ridiculing you for having an opinion, they're ridiculing you for the substance of that opinion. Now, if they don't like it, I'd rather they attack the opinion than the person who holds it, but they didn't clear their posts with me

 

[voyagergrl3193]

All I was doing, Pingfah, was merely stating an opinion. Everybody has one! Wow, you guys take things way too seriously on here.

All right..to make peace, I'll apologise for the rude weighty problems the woman has. Maybe it's none of my business, but honestly I have NO sympathy for someone who eats there way through life. I have a father who is overweight and can sympathize to such a degree for overweight people. Guess I was taking my frustrations out on strangers and should think before I type. For that, I'm sorry.

To answer the question about dementia..yes, as a matter of fact, I had a grandfather who had dementia. He passed away from it about five years ago. His wife took care of him until he died. So yes, I do know the stresses involved and understand that. But this has NOTHING to do with what I originally said.

About what I said: I came home laughing, telling Mom the whole story..I know to you guys, the way I worded it on here sounded brusk, rude, critical and downright shameful, BUT I was in a way trying to be kinda funny. Guess I rubbed others the wrong way instead. Leave it to me to create a giant hurricane on here.

 

[Pingfah]

All I was doing, Pingfah, was merely stating an opinion. Everybody has one!

I'm not sure what your point is. Do you never criticise people's opinions you don't agree with?

Are opinions somehow immune from criticism?

 

[voyagergrl3193]

Yes of course I do. But I criticize the opinion, not the poster. And no, opinions are not immune from criticism. I apologized for the mistake..what more do you want?

 

[ThankQ]

All right..to make peace, I'll apologise for the rude weighty problems the woman has. Maybe it's none of my business, but honestly I have NO sympathy for someone who eats there way through life.

Oh, you and one admin I know here are going to become fast friends, I'm sure!

So people have to be perfect in your world? Or are some faults okay, just not being all fat and nasty and gross looking?

Now, let's work on how to apologize. In 8th grade, my friend got in trouble for yelling "You suck!" across the classroom at another student. The teacher demanded, "Jeremy, apologize to him now!" and Jeremy replied, "I'm sorry you suck."

He was doing it to be funny, but you just did that in all seriousness!

All right..to make peace, I'll apologise for the rude weighty problems the woman has.

Don't apologize because she's fat, apologize for your irrational opinions about fat people.

 

[Pingfah]

Yes of course I do. But I criticize the opinion, not the poster. And no, opinions are not immune from criticism. I apologized for the mistake..what more do you want?

Criticising a person is fair game if you are specifically calling them out on their behaviour and opinions in a particular situation. Your motives were evaluated. You brought that upon yourself.

It's not like somebody just called you a fat moose or anything really nasty like that.

 

[Finn]

Yes of course I do. But I criticize the opinion, not the poster. And no, opinions are not immune from criticism. I apologized for the mistake..what more do you want?

You apologized but kept making unwarranted judgment about a woman you don't know. She might have medical issues that may be at least partially responsible for her weight.