Grocery Shopping Rant

[Anonymous]

And PLEASE people, stop writing checks to pay for your groceries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And PLEASE people, stop writing checks to pay for your groceries.

Whatever. I just opened a new account recently and the check card hadn't come in yet. So I wrote checks for a week. Big whoop. The behavior in the OP would've annoyed me too only because the lady seemed to making things harder for the cashier to check her out quickly. But in general I don't believe a grocery store is a great place to be for people that are in a huge rush.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And PLEASE people, stop writing checks to pay for your groceries.

I agree. So annoying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is rude to expect people to wait for you. The lady should have concluded her business briskly, then moved on.

We all share this planet and we don't have to march to your tune. Not checking out groceries exactly the way you do is fine. It is rude to expect everyone to get in line with your way of doing things. Take a breath.

This was a grocery store. The very nature of the business is rushed. We aren't shopping for luxury furniture. It's get in/get out. It is rude to make other people wait b/c you don't have yourself together. Not the end of the world, for sure. But, come on. Get it together and move on.

Not everyone lives the way you live. Not everyone thinks "the very nature" of a grocery store is rushed.

And not everyone has all the time in the world. Some of us have to accomplish errands within strict time limits or we'll be late for something else. Some of us can simply think of better things to do with our time than stand in line behind someone prepared wait 'til the cows come home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is rude to expect people to wait for you. The lady should have concluded her business briskly, then moved on.

We all share this planet and we don't have to march to your tune. Not checking out groceries exactly the way you do is fine. It is rude to expect everyone to get in line with your way of doing things. Take a breath.

This was a grocery store. The very nature of the business is rushed. We aren't shopping for luxury furniture. It's get in/get out. It is rude to make other people wait b/c you don't have yourself together. Not the end of the world, for sure. But, come on. Get it together and move on.

Not everyone lives the way you live. Not everyone thinks "the very nature" of a grocery store is rushed.

And not everyone has all the time in the world. Some of us have to accomplish errands within strict time limits or we'll be late for something else. Some of us can simply think of better things to do with our time than stand in line behind someone prepared wait 'til the cows come home.

Yes, but unfortunately for you, you're not King. Other people are busy going about their business THEIR WAY. I can't stand mean people like you who make even a trip to the grocery store an opportunity to hate someone for something stupid like not organizing their coupons (or not writing a check? give me a break). There is no parallel universe where you are a nice person because no one is ever slowing you down or getting in your way. This is it. And you don't sound nice.

[Anonymous]

OP, these people drive me NUTS. I have to read a magazine, and not look at the other lines I could have been in to prevent myself from committing a crime. The things I want to blurt out!!ARGGHH

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm with you! This isn't the end of the world, no, but the woman was definitely being a dingbat. Repacking the groceries, really? After watching them get packed the first time in plastic bags? And making the cashier pick out the coupons that were applicable?! It would never even occur to me to hand the cashier a stack of coupons and be like "YOU figure it out." That's just hilariously absurd.

[Anonymous]

OP, THAT is what people are talking about when they say "only in D.C.".

[Anonymous]

You know, some people are just not as organized as others. And they sometimes they have other things on their minds so maybe they are not paying attention to everything that is going on around them. That is probably why they go shopping in the middle of the day to avoid the very organized, focused people in a huge rush.

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Anonymous wrote:You know, some people are just not as organized as others. And they sometimes they have other things on their minds so maybe they are not paying attention to everything that is going on around them. That is probably why they go shopping in the middle of the day to avoid the very organized, focused people in a huge rush.

There's not being organized and then there's being a douche. Someone who isn't organized would stand in line with their coupons and go through to figure out which matched up. Being a douche is handing every coupon to the cashier to go through.

Being disorganized means forgetting you have brought bags. Being a douche is waiting until everything is bagged, then asking for it all to be re-bagged (I've forgotten the bags are there, and once stuff is bagged, I would never dream of asking for any of it to be re-bagged).

Bottom line, if people are trying their best to move things along, they aren't going to incite people to violence. People who act like the person I've outlined above are.

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Anonymous wrote:You know, some people are just not as organized as others. And they sometimes they have other things on their minds so maybe they are not paying attention to everything that is going on around them. That is probably why they go shopping in the middle of the day to avoid the very organized, focused people in a huge rush.

There's not being organized and then there's being a douche. Someone who isn't organized would stand in line with their coupons and go through to figure out which matched up. Being a douche is handing every coupon to the cashier to go through.

Being disorganized means forgetting you have brought bags. Being a douche is waiting until everything is bagged, then asking for it all to be re-bagged (I've forgotten the bags are there, and once stuff is bagged, I would never dream of asking for any of it to be re-bagged).

Bottom line, if people are trying their best to move things along, they aren't going to incite people to violence. People who act like the person I've outlined above are.

Violence? Really? Because you had to wait a little bit longer in a grocery store checkout line behind a "douche"?

[Anonymous]

Obviously, the violence is limited to PPs' fantasies. But PPs on lazy, hazy schedules should take note that the leisurely pace of their lives is increasingly out of step, apparently even at suburban Wegman's stores.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously, the violence is limited to PPs' fantasies. But PPs on lazy, hazy schedules should take note that the leisurely pace of their lives is increasingly out of step, apparently even at suburban Wegman's stores.

Seriously! They should go back to institutionalizing people with lazy, hazy minds and schedules instead of letting them live out in society with the rest of us. i'm sure it costs us all about fifty cents a year just waiting behind someone like that at Wegman's. I for one would rather spend my fifty pennies on taxes to take people like that out of the mainstream and back into a setting where they can't hurt anyone's bank account with that kind of disorganized behavior. It's just plain crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously, the violence is limited to PPs' fantasies. But PPs on lazy, hazy schedules should take note that the leisurely pace of their lives is increasingly out of step, apparently even at suburban Wegman's stores.

Seriously! They should go back to institutionalizing people with lazy, hazy minds and schedules instead of letting them live out in society with the rest of us. i'm sure it costs us all about fifty cents a year just waiting behind someone like that at Wegman's. I for one would rather spend my fifty pennies on taxes to take people like that out of the mainstream and back into a setting where they can't hurt anyone's bank account with that kind of disorganized behavior. It's just plain crazy.

It also does no permanent harm to fellow shoppers in line if you loudly intone "boing, boing, boing" in a constantly repeating nasal drone, but doing so contravenes a societal norm. In DC and apparently also in its suburbs, the norm is changing pace of life- wise. Witness the number of PPs who agree shopping should be accomplished expediently. The region's traditional "southern efficiency" is slipping.

[Anonymous]

I didn't mean actual violence. It was just a bit of hyperbole.

The DC area is not a sleepy midwestern town. Life here is faster-paced. But that wasn't even the original issue, the original issue was the fact that the woman in front of the OP was acting in a manner that was disrespectful to those behind her, not just that she was a little slow.