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What people do to show you how stupid they are.

How do you know she drove? Is there no other way to get to the store?[/quote]

Given this area and it's lack of mass transportation it's likely she drove. I suppose she could have walked from a nearby apartment complex or housing development but that still requires a certain level of situational awareness and ability to see/navigate her surroundings without the aid of either a helper-dog, walking cane, or other device. The odds are strongly in the favor of her being a normally sighted woman who drove to the store.

Also... I would class "hamburger" as a disc-shaped thing, not as a tray full of ground meat; maybe it wasn't what she was expecting to see either?

Possibly a regional thing, "hamburger" here covers a wide variety of things from ground meat to the "disc shaped things" eaten between buns. Regardless, these "disc shaped things" were, also literally right in front of her.

How do they know the tray wasn't for something else? (How big is the store - could there be other areas with empty spots that aren't immediately visible from where the customer was?) Some shops make a habit of removing empty-and-will-not-be-refilled trays for various reasons.

Awareness and thinking. That's all I ask. It's not a terribly big store or area. All a person has to do is *look* and think. "Hey, there's an empty spot here where a tray of red-meat usually is. Hmm. There's a person a few feet in front of me cutting red meat and putting in a pan. That pan looks big enough to fit in this gap. Oh, and it's 10:00 in the morning and people are buzzing around doing things, cutting things, talking, and there's activity. Maybe it's possible they do have this and that they're working on getting it in here, instead of elves magically doing it overnight."

Nothing is hidden, it's an open-air shop. A person behind the counter can just look a few feet beyond the tip of their nose and see what's going on. It just takes rubbing two brain-cells together to figure things out. But that's asking way too much of the people in this area.

It's one thing to ask for a specific item on the shelf, or a rare item or an unusual item. That, I understand needing help to find. It's something else entirely to ask for something that's is literally staring you in the face. Or to ask where something is that's really not hard to find if you even put in the smallest amount of effort. (Eggs, milk, and bread aren't hard to find, people. They take up pretty significant sections of the store.)

I had someone literally walk through the produce section of the store, up to me, and ask me where our fresh vegetables and stuff were. I told him that it's in the area he just came from. Now, maybe he has severe tunnel vision, I don't know, but sometimes it just really seems like people don't want to think or even try.

I've dealt with this stuff for a long, long, time. Either every customer I've had to help suffers from a severe disability that hampers their ability to see, hear and think or most people are just idiots who aren't even trying.

I'd hate to think the disability rate is so high considering how full our parking lot often is, so it's more likely people are idiots.
 
I had someone literally walk through the produce section of the store, up to me, and ask me where our fresh vegetables and stuff were. I told him that it's in the area he just came from. Now, maybe he has severe tunnel vision, I don't know, but sometimes it just really seems like people don't want to think or even try.

I've dealt with this stuff for a long, long, time. Either every customer I've had to help suffers from a severe disability that hampers their ability to see, hear and think or most people are just idiots who aren't even trying.

I'd hate to think the disability rate is so high considering how full our parking lot often is, so it's more likely people are idiots.
Some people don't have 20/20 vision you know, and I'm glad I'll never be in your store if that's the employee attitude. My vision is very poor, I'm 5" from the monitor right now. I can't see the menu boards in fast food joints clearly, and I have to be right on top of items in the grocery store to see the price. I don't drive either.
 
No, it's that people are stupid, more likely lazy and don't want to do anything themselves or absorb information. Most of the time they barely want to look past the tip of their own nose.



I have lost count of how many women I see in Walmart pushing their cart through the aisles with a teen girl walking behind them with her nose buried in her cellphone, tapping away. These girls are going to grow up, move out, and the first time they have to go shopping, they will be totally lost.:confused:

CCC.
 
A while back, I was fueling my car at a gas station when I suddenly heard this very loud BANG!!! A white car started to drive away from the pump with the handle still in the gas tank and the hose loosely dangling from it. A large woman gets out of the car whining, "I'm having a bad day!". Who gives a shit? I don't want to hear that. Take the handle out after you gas up, before you blow up the damn place in a giant fireball.


... "I'm having a bad day."
 
Speaking of petrol stations, I once saw a young staff member fill his lighter out of a petrol pump, not kidding here, and then LIGHT it to check it was working. His whole arm went up in flames and he came hurtling through the shop, on fire, and into the staff bathroom where he put it out. I never saw how badly he burned himself.

And I can beat that even. I was at a night time beach party once, and everybody was tripping, when 2 guys decided to stand in the middle of the fire and embrace until they both caught fire. Then they went streaking down the beach, on fire, creating some pretty fucking spectacular LSD trails for the rest of us. They hurled themselves into the sea, which put out the fire, but by that point they had both received very severe burns to their legs, so dousing them in salt water must have made it even more painful.

All the skin off one guy's legs came off with his jeans, it was disgusting. He had life changing injuries. The other guy was not hurt as badly.
 
I've run into that one a couple of times! One very recently :lol:. I was at a store with a friend and someone asked me if I worked there... I looked at her incredulously and let her know that I didn't.
After telling her you didn't work there, did you offer to help her anyway?

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Holy crap! Id be terrified to be anywhere near any of those people!
 
Or, asking whether someone works at the store is a show of courtesy.

Believe it or not, people shop in their work clothes, in colored aprons with their name tags still attached, and sometimes it's not easy to find the store name visible on work clothes, say if they're holding stuff. Also, not everyone in uniform shelving things is actually a store employee either.
 
Next time, if somebody comes up to you and asks if you work there and know where the Pea Whiz is or something, just say, "Yeah, isle three, below the rice."

Then quickly make your way to the other side of the store for 15 minutes.
 
Or, asking whether someone works at the store is a show of courtesy.

Believe it or not, people shop in their work clothes, in colored aprons with their name tags still attached, and sometimes it's not easy to find the store name visible on work clothes, say if they're holding stuff. Also, not everyone in uniform shelving things is actually a store employee either.


True people do shop in their work clothes.

But for example uniform colours are often different. So Store A might have a black unifrom and store B a blue uniform. Employee from store A is in store B and is asked do you work here? The colour of the uniform should have been a give away that they don't.

And yes it might be a courtesy, but it might be the Xth time that person was asked do they work here when they are in another store. So for that person it might be more of an intrusion being asked do they work here. It's the other side of the coin.
 
Ever see someone try to open an elevator with their car keys? When it happened(and it did) we both laughed out loud,..
 
When I was working at a grocery store, I remember being asked many times by customers if I worked there even though I was wearing a uniform with an apron that had the store logo on it.

I always smiled when that happened and replied in the affirmative. I always figured that there are people who can't tell the difference between clerks, managers, maintenance staff, vendors from outside companies (like Coca-Cola or Nabisco), or even fellow customers. All they know is that they need help and are looking for anyone who might be able to help them.

In some instances it might be just a case of laziness, in others it could be just honest uncertainty of who works in the store (they may not even really see your uniform with the store logo until after they asked if you worked there).

And it's not limited to just grocery/retail stores.
 
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