Same on both counts. I usually prefer bagging my own groceries. I swear, I don’t think the stores actually do bagging training anymore. When I don’t bag my own, I often get dry goods mixed in with refrigerated items or produce and cleaning supplies mixed in with food.
What’s aggravating about having someone else bag my groceries is I will make the effort to put things on the belt in exactly the order I want them bagged and they screw it all up anyways.
Most checkers will get it and appreciate that I have done this. It saves them the step of having to re-organize your items themselves, or at least that’s how I felt about it when I was a supermarket checker.
Others just don’t care and just dump everything into a bag at random. I prefer to go to the self-checkout because of those people.
Was “bloody merry” a typographical error, or an intentional joke?
yes
I’ll help bag groceries etc. if needed, but am happy to let a bagger do it, if one is available.
I tend to eat fast, although I do enjoy my food and don’t really have the sense that I’m bolting it down. Sometimes, if I find myself racing ahead of others at the table, I’ll purposefully slow down.
I’ve never seen those particular horror movies (although I certainly know about them - how could I not, after all these years?), so I didn’t vote.
Bloody Merry sounds like a Christmas horror movie, come to think of it…
I’m also a former supermarket bagger (1999-2000*), but I had exactly the opposite attitude. I always hated it when customers tried to help bag their stuff. Because I had a system I used while I was bagging groceries, and customers would always mess up that system when they tried to help.
*Come to think of it, that’s where I was on New Years Eve 1999. The store was usually open 24/7, but closed on certain holidays. And I ended up scheduled to work until closing time Dec. 31 1999.
My preferred groc shop has two belts to feed the customer bagging end. I tell the checker to just pass me the scans ad I stick them back into my shopping cart, which ends up leaving a belt open for the next person and me free to handle my own groceries at my leisure (just shovel them into the back seat of my hoopty).
I could not answer the signature poll.
I sign my name less than once a day, but I would not say that I rarely sign my name.
mmm
I only use my full signature a few times a month, but I initial stuff multiple times every day.
I might not sign my name on anything for days, and then might sign it multiple times in one day. I voted once a day on average; but I don’t know what the average actually is.
I sign checks, credit card receipts, and legal papers. Although actually signing briefs and letters has gone the way of the dodo bird. My assistant drops in a pdf of my signature or types “s/Procrustus”
I’m the same. I answered rarely, but honestly it averaged out to about once a week - usually with my finger on one of those electronic pads that makes my signature look like gibberish.
I sign my name fairly often. Government work still involves quite a shocking amount of actual paper even today.
Oh, yeah. You can’t go to the doctor without signing your name these days – probably several times – and it’s often on one of those.
I sign my name once a week on a worksheet
Summary
(or whatever it’s called; where readings/times/notes of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber
session where i volunteer are recorded if you must know !)
…and occasionally digital amazon delivery type things or official forms that need it
so i chose seldom.
Re: Bob fishing. I chose other - he may be like me, ie, he likes the sitting around
drinking & thinking, but doesn’t want to catch anything.
If you’re going to be secretly stocking a new pond with fish, you should also be prepared to secretly stock it with trout feed on a regular basis, at least until it matures.
My “other” on the pond option is: find out what fish stocking programs are available in the area; then drop by and ask Bob whether he’s heard of a particular program or so, phrasing it so that it sounds like I’m just telling him about the specific program(s) and not about the entire concept.
– also, the pond will probably eventually stock itself, if it’s suitable for fish. I’d thought this was because birds will fly in with fish eggs stuck to their legs, but it appears that while birds are probably the transporters the mechanism’s different: some of the eggs survive being eaten and shat back out.
I would most certainly not secretly stock the pond; deliberately introducing a species without consulting strikes me as a particularly nasty form of trespass. And you might introduce something unsuitable; Bob very likely knows more about his pond conditions than you do.
@John_DiFool Did you mean to make those single-choice polls?
NOPE. %^*&%^%^*^%. YES THlS lS A %^*^&%^% SENTENCE DlSCOURSE…
There are now four posts in a row by John_DiFool that all say Null! So I suppose the answer to that is “no”.
– whoops ninjad. By a missing argument, apparently; though I suspect the argument is with Discourse.