Stupid people while shopping....
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Topic: Stupid people while shopping....
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Subject: Stupid people while shopping....
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 3:58pm
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I know we've had a lot of these threads lately, but I figure that a break from political threads can't hurt. The wife and I headed out to pick up a baby gate today to keep Jack from crawling into the kitchen. Target's got some nice ones so we headed over there. While inside, I came to the conclusion that you will find the largest concentration of stupid in supermarkets, box stores, etc. First, we're walking through the aisles when a woman cuts in front of us from the left, LEAVES her wagon in the middle of the 'intersection' we're at, and walks without it into the stacks to my right. I had to move her cart to get around it. -( Imagine sitting at a 4 way intersection, someone comes through it from the left and parks under the light.) Second, and this was awesome- after we checked out, we're heading for the door. There's two sets of exit doors, the automatic ones, and the ones that you (God forbid!) have to push on, and there's a small corral fence separating the two sets. A family of four is on their way out the manual doors.....get to them and realize that they're not opening automatically.....back up, GO AROUND the corral, and walk out the automatic doors. Then, in general, I have a problem with the morons who leave shopping carts in randomly in the parking lot while a good urination with a slight tail wind can hit the nearest cart deposit. Walk 8 steps, put the friggin thing away, then go home. If there's anything worse than stupidity, its stupidity that is so pervasive that it lingers after the offender is gone. ------------- ? |
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:08pm
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Guess no one told you.
It's all about ME. ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:23pm
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Replace stupid with lazy ;P
I had a girl come into the hospital the other day at like 5 in the morning. She comes in with one of those jackets with the thick fake fur lining around the collar and these really tight sweat pants (she pulled off the lower half quote nicely actually) and walks to my desk to tell me her side hurts. I go, "K, fill out a triage and bring it back up to me." She starts filling out the triage, which is basically name DOB SS and chief complaint, takes half an hour filling it out, then leaves it on the triage table and sits down. I wait for her to make the two extra steps to bring it to me...but nope. She sits and stares at my desk, and then at the triage desk that's like four feet in front of my office, I guess expecting me to leave my office and pick it up. I'm at this completely flabbergasted at the laziness / stupidity this girl is excercising, but then she tops anything I've ever seen- She gets up, flails her arms, goes "This is bull<expletive>!" and storms out. ------------- 
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Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:26pm
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I fail at iPhone posting...forgive my punctuation and spelling fuddles... -------------
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Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:35pm
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QQ ... ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:41pm
<Insert reaction you were looking for here> ------------- ? |
pb125 wrote:Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:45pm
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Nah. Just seems like you get a bit worked up over some pretty small stuff. Take it easy, bro. -------------
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:53pm
| I stand by my opinion that the dumbest people on earth can be found in the youtube and imdb comments sections. I'm surprised they can breathe |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:54pm
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That's because everyone's butt looks nice in those pants. If I put on a pair of yoga pants, my butt would look nice too. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:55pm
Shens. ------------- ? |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:55pm
Fine, I'll do it and post pics. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:57pm
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please..no^^^^
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:57pm
Truth ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 5:27pm
2nd the shens, I've seen MANY a terrible buttocks in those pants. They make a nice rear look great, but does NO favours for a weak behind. |
Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 5:36pm
QFT. YouTube especially...there's usually some common sense to be found on IMDB...but YouTube...damn. If ever there was a case for natural selection failing... -------------
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 5:39pm
I don't know, some of the stuff I've seen on the imdb boards just astounds me. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 5:45pm
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Any military related video on youtube no matter the time it was taken in, the country portrayed, or anything like that WILL turn into a debate about the Iraq war in the comments section.
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 5:54pm
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:33pm
Whenever someone does this to me I check to see how carefully they are watching their cart. If they aren't keeping an eye on it (and it has enough stuff in it that finding all the same items again would take a while) I casually relocate it to the other side of the store. My favorite stupid occurred in a mall parking lot last fall. I was setting in my car waiting for the wife to finish shopping* when a car pulled in from the opposite driving lane (through one space and into the one next to me). The elderly lady driving did not park very well (way to close to the yellow line on my side of her parking spot) and really didn't have room to get out. She didn't let this stop her from trying though, she bounced her door off the side of my car three or four times until I rolled my window down and asked her to quit. (Apparently she didn't realize anyone was in the car.) Amazingly, she had the nerve to ask me to move. In return I asked her to quit hitting my car and put my window back up. She wasn't smart enough to park properly, but she did hit my car much more gently the last time she opened the door and it gave her enough room to squeeze out. (She also gave me a dirty look as she walked away from her car.) She was back out in a few minutes and must have forgot I was there because she slammed the door into my car again trying to get back in. (Fortunately, I have the vinyl/plastic door/fender skirts on the vehicle and no damage was done.) *She sent me to the car for activating all of the little singing toys next to the cash register. ------------- 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:52pm
| Oh man, I would get that lady's insurance to fix my paint. This is why I am picky of where I park. |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:00pm
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Let's have a go at this one. The people that drop everything they bought in one spot when they realize they don't want the stuff or don't have enough time to wait in line. Extra annoyance to those who do so with perishables. Able bodied people who hit the handicap buttons and wait for the door to open (not so much in shopping centers but at schools and stuff). People who eat whatever they're going to buy before they pay for it (I don't see anything wrong, it just annoys me). People who wont take a loose cart in the parking lot with them, instead waiting until they get to the store's door to pick up a cart. People who say "good Christians shouldn't have to be treated like this" when service is slow (I've heard it plenty enough to warrant including it in this thread). Same thing happens in Turkey, with the obvious inclusion of Muslim instead of Christian. ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:07pm
I heard this once...to which I said loud enough to be heard "That's why it doesn't happen to good Christians" We had to leave. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:14pm
That mentality annoys me to all hell (no pun intended) ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: TheSpookyKids87
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 12:24am
| I never heard that before, seems like a weird thing to say. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 1:39am
No, they should be fed to the lions? No they should be flogged and forced to wear a crown of thorns while they carry a huge wooden cross up a hill to be crucified? As for the eathing thing, I often open and finish a bottle of water or juice while shopping. (not eating I know....) Mainly because it takes ages to shop, and I get thirsty. KBK |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 1:48am
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I have always felt uncomfortable with the notion of consuming products before purchasing them even if I have the intention of later paying for them. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 2:00am
Same, it's not mine yet. I've always felt that way. |
Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 2:05am
| Agreed, I feel like the one day I do that I'll for some strange reason not have the means to pay for it and be shamed, and possibly stoned to death by my community. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 3:41am
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You know what? So did I. Then one day I thought "stuff it, I'm thirsty".
Especially when it is abandon the cart, go buy drink, get it scanned in when I come back to my cart, that's probably been shifted by someone. Stick that. Pop open the drink, enjoy, pay at till. The tills here don't even bat an eyelid when you scan an empty bottle, and I'd say a good 90% of them have trashcans that the teller will drop the empty bottle into for you. KBK |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 4:19am
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I'm a cashier at a grocery store. This kind of garbage is day-to-day for me. Ever since I took that job I've realized two things: 1) I hate children 2) I hate everyone else ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 7:19am
------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 10:32am
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I hate people that park in the fire lane right next to the building.
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Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:00am
------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:24am
Oh I'm sure the till doesn't matter, however the loss prevention people in the store must have a good time deciding if you're going to pay for it or not. |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:27am
------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:48am
Probably old and not necessarily on topic, but check out http://www.peopleofwalmart.com - www.peopleofwalmart.com . Classic. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 12:08pm
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You guys would HATE metrotown. It's a big mall here that is FULL to the brim of people who just have no clue of how to walk in public. All over the place, super slow, straight at you, no idea where their bags are, etc.
Also, you'll be a minority |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 12:24pm
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You know what is fun. Next time you are entering a store stop and wait for the next person to come to the door and open it for them and say, "Have a great day".
I do it all the time and it's very amusing.
Sad that today, being nice to others is so rare.
manners... Pass 'em on. ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 12:28pm
People holding doors and saying simple niceties is rare? Weird. |
Posted By: slackerr26
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 1:48pm
dunno where you live and how people do things there, but being nice is no rarity around here ------------- 
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Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 3:07pm
------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: nickman98
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 3:18pm
| well being a manager for walgreens i have to eat stupid all day long. the guy who yelled and yelled and yelled about candles was a good one. in general i hate people who send thier kids to the toy aisle like its a play land so they can shop and not be bothered. i also hate the people who seem to think even though they are the 4th person in line that they are far more important then the others and want to push past them to the 2nd register when i open it. and i really hate it when they get mad that i pointed that fact out to them. i could go on and on and on. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 4:03pm
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 4:12pm
------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 4:13pm
| Boohoo |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 4:22pm
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This is why I was so pleased to switch to overnight stocking. I went to work at 10PM and the store closed at midnight. We stayed closed until the end of my shift at 6AM. The very few customers who came in that late were the best shoppers ever. If they weren't in a hurry to nab a few items and go they were at least very mindful of the pallets of load we were busy throwing on the shelves. My biggest pet peeve from working in a grocery store was people who were unable to locate items. Now this category can be broken down further into sub categories. First you have people who wish to purchase basics, and by basics I mean items that are printed on the aisle signs, but can't seem to look up and read the clearly printed sign telling you the canned fruit is on aisle 10B. The best ones are those who ask you where an item is while they are standing directly in front of it. Next you have wanderers who are getting frustrated that their item isn't on some special shelf on an aisle made just for them. These tools are especially annoying when they wander about the store, getting in your way often, and refuse to ask for help. I get it, you feel more accomplished finding the stuff we've hidden from you on your own, just break down and ask someone so you can gtfo and let us get back to work. Finally, a variation on previously mentioned wanderers, people who have spent so much time trying to locate an item that when they finally decide to ask for help they think they know more about the store layout than the people who stock it. Example: May I help you find something, sir? Yeah, I've been all over this store and can't find the artichoke hearts! Oh, those are on aisle 7D, half way down the aisle on the second shelf above the salad dressing. NO THEY AREN'T!!!!11!11!one1! I've looked up and down that aisle and they aren't there. The most redeeming thing about these situations is leading the snobby customers directly to their items and making them feel like tools. Remember if you act an ass in the grocery store, the employees are likely to have a good laugh at your expense. Also, don't get super angry if your item is out of stock. Each department has only so much space to store backstock and getting pissy about it isn't going to make a case of name brand blueberry pie filling come in any faster, especially if the warehouse a few states away is out. By the way this store brand filling costs less and I can't tell the difference in taste or quality. Oh, and don't ask me to check in the back then walk off because it takes me longer than 30 seconds to dig through a pallet stacked tall than I am. Trust employees when they tell you it isn't in the back either. What good comes from lying to a customer about that? It puts strain on that customer's relationship with the company and loses money from the missed sale. End mini-rant. TL;DR customers suck. ------------- 
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Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 5:11pm
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I hated working at a grocery store. Any any of the countless retail jobs I have worked at. ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 5:17pm
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I work at JCPenney, and you pretty much need a sense of humor to work in retail. I love taking customers and pointing out items that they said did not exist. And I especially like telling rude customers that the line starts "over there".
Remember, always be nice to your cashier, even if they aren't. I give friendly customers coupons all the time. ------------- 
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 5:57pm
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Best thing about working in a grocery store is getting told we sell things in another store that we don't sell. Like things we have never had. "Oh I got it at the other one last week." or sometimes even "I was here a couple of weeks ago and got it" The supermarket I worked for sold exactly the same items in all 60 of their stores. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 7:04pm
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You guys know what I hate:
~People who walk up to concessions after we have it closed, and demand a refill (after everything is off and popcorn is all gone)
~ People who think it is funny to drop a full bag of popcorn or drink (had a lady do it saturday, dropped it, looked at me, laughed, and walked away)
~People who think the theater is a daycare.
~People who make a point to leave EVERYTHING they brought into the theater in the theater.
/rant ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 7:30pm
| I could rant for way too long about dumb crap people did while I worked as a valet. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 8:15pm
Yeah, I could have kept goin. Its amazing isnt it? ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:39pm
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Ammolord: You work for Harkins? ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:43pm
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Nope, Carmike. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:55pm
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I NEED THESE BAGGED IN PLASTIC, THEN PAPER, THEN IN PLASTIC AGAIN SO I CAN CARRY THEM. Edit: Now that I think about it, I still remember the most epic customer fail of all time. This old lady came through and bought a 12 pack of Fresca or something like that, I was bagging groceries at the ripe age of 14. She asked me to put it in a plastic bag (I don't think we bagged those normally..) and I went to double-bag it since our bags sucked, and who puts soda in bags anyways. Anyways, she said "DON'T PUT IT IN TWO BAGS, YOU GUYS ALWAYS GIVE ME SO MANY BAGS". So I didn't. She walked away with her single-bagged 12-pack and the bag busted not 10 steps further. Her fresca exploded all over the place, and we all tried to act like it wasn't hilarious. |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 10:03pm
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I'm an asst manager at a grocery store. I have several. -we aren't a full size grocery store, we ae a specialty market, get that through your head, we don't sell lightbulbs. -Cell phones are the bane of my existence, and I WILL skip you if you are on one. -We don't have bottle return machines, we are a small market -Yes theres a deposit on the milk bottles, get over it. Its still the best stuff you have ever tasted. -listen to me when i tell you something actually is fresher than it appears. Meat that doesn't turn grey from light exposure, has been treated with chemicals like nitrates. And if its that big of a deal, i throw out the first slice of the day anyway. -if you change your mind about what you want, tell me, or hand back what you got. I'm a saleman, i can get someone else to buy it. Don't shove it in a freezer somewhere, don't pretend you had something else. I always repeat back exactly what you said before i do anything. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: soonerdude05
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 12:25am
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I work at a bank refilling and maintaining the ATMs. We have had customers who have torn the out of order signs off our ATMs and try to use them when they are down. Sometimes while we are refilling an ATM a customer will drive up and want to use it. I will tell them that its out of money and they always ask "well, can't I just get up there and use it real quick?" If I say its out of money and I'm holding the cassettes in my hands, YOU CAN'T USE IT! Sometimes a customer will drive up and we tell them that we have to refill the ATM and it's going to take a few minutes and that they can go through the teller line (which is drive-through, and more often than not there are several open lanes) and they almost always get mad, cuss and speed off real fast. Are people really that afraid of a little human interaction? ------------- 
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 2:29am
I actually meant valet as in parking cars, not in a theater. There's no doubt that any service industry job will have oblivious customers, but it's something special when you get their cars involved too. |
Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 2:00pm
Story time. ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 6:38pm
------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 8:12pm
You can't even get annoyed at half of that. I've never been in a grocery store that didn't sell light bulbs. Most all have had bottle return machines. Gray meat looks bad and I wouldn't want it. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 21 January 2010 at 1:41am
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Lol at grey meat stories.
Mostly it is all good, but I've had the exact same argument with a server, when the top layer was literally like cardboard. The slice of meat tinkled when you tapped it, it was THAT dried out. "No sir, this is what happens to meat you don't treat with chemicals" "Uh, NO." KBK |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 21 January 2010 at 2:24am
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we're talking about different things altogether though. Mostly pork products, change color when exposed to light and oxygen, it happens in as little as a few hours.
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 21 January 2010 at 3:34am
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Yeah *I* know that. That's what the guy behind the counter was trying to say happened to 3 day old dried out sliced meat.
Most meats don't stay nice and rosy red. Look at aged steak if nothing else. Grey almost green is good. Bright, bursting with red colour is bad. (Doesn't it normally mean it's been hit with high doses of CO2 or something to keep it red?) KBK |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 21 January 2010 at 10:35am
Ive come to the conclusion, ipod/phone keyboards were designed to be used by 12 year old girls. I hate the keyboard.
And leaving shopping carts out pisses me off. I do not want to go collecting all the carts just so I dont get a paint scratch
Also, I work in a small congested retail store in the mall. Other than people doing the obvious of dumping metric tonnes of clothes in the dressing room, I loathe strollers. ------------- 
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