I’m in the latter group, but not if it’s just a day or two difference. But if the date is today or tomorrow, I’ll grab one from the back that has an expiration of next week. Same thing with a bag of bread.
Yes but you could munch on hot fries while waiting for the custard. That way, the meal is in the proper, seethfree sequence.
For me, it depends on the item, and also on when I’m going to use it. I’ve got no problem with old bread, but old milk or cream can give me digestive upsets, sometimes before it’s easy to taste that it’s bad. And I usually only shop every week or two, sometimes even less often. So generally I am looking for the longest-date milk and cream; somebody who’s going to use the whole thing right away can take the one dated tomorrow, I may not use it till next week and may then take several days to finish it.
But that’s not the same thing as saying that everyone should always hunt for the furthest dated item.
Presuming that one wants to eat one’s meal while standing in line –
At least no one expects you to stand for Proud. Last time I went to a ballgame, I made a point of not standing for God Bless (and embarrassed my kids a bit). I’m not opposed to it being sung, but making up new ‘traditions’ to honor a God I’m at best agnostic about is right out.
Oh, that remind me of a big one for me (but doesn’t come up as much since I moved out of NYC). I cannot stand the perfectly benign and appropriate (I grudgingly admit) practice of eating while walking down the street. It doesn’t hurt me, and people can certainly do it if they want. But it fits the OP’s question to a tee.
Actually you are standing for America, not G-d.
They’re kind of tangled together in that song. Which is part of the problem.
I get irrationally annoyed when people shorten the name of an airline to “[Something] Air”, if that isn’t the official name of the airline. There is no such airline as “Southwest Air” or “American Air”. It’s “Southwest Airlines” and “American Airlines”, darn it! And Delta spells their name using the old fashioned two word spelling “air lines”, so their name is properly spelled “Delta Air Lines”, not “Delta Airlines”.
Tangled, as mentioned by @thorny_locust. Plus, we don’t need to stand again to honor America - we did that at the beginning of the game. As mentioned, we don’t need to invent new traditions to show our patriotism/faith/whatever.
Bringing us into a pet peeve from this decade (and one made worse by COVID but not caused by COVID).
Redbox browsing. Okay, I know a charm of Redbox is the impulse movie night for people, so it’s a feature, not a bug. But I’m normally there for a specific movie, or I’ve pre-selected online and just want to get in and out. But someone is there going page by page through everything to see if there’s something they want. And I’m internally berating them for wanting to watch something nice? Why am I so evil? Grrr.
And of course, double word/hate score if after taking 5 minutes to page through everything they just shrug and walk away. Yes, during COVID there were few new releases and a lot of ‘back again’ so it makes sense, but the anger doubles. Same if this was a location with dual boxes (like my preferred grocery store). I needed to check out from they box they were using, but they could have seen 90% of the same selection at the other box.
Triple word/hate score if both of the above applied. Thankfully that’s only happened twice in the last year. I can’t take all the karmic backlog for the unjustified hate that ensured.
Besides chatty check book guy at the grocery store i mentioned above, Anyone who makes me wait longer than expected is evil.
ATM customer who seems to be attempting to refinance his mortgage via the ATM, is pure evil.
Airline check in guy who wants to change tickets, has 300 lbs of bags, oh did i need a passport to go to Mexico? Pure evil.
But of course, when i have issues with ATM transactions or problems checking in at the Airport, those are perfectly reasonable, i am not evil.
Very insightful.
I think if most of us had to follow ourselves around and stand in every line right behind ourselves every time, we’d have shot that time-wasty inconsiderate jerk years ago. 
Guilty as charged. I’m a check writer and a chatter.
The check writing has become very rare. The chatting has not, so shoot me. I like acting like the clerk is a human being.
During the pandemic, the supermarkets and other stores (around here, at least) banned customers from bringing in their own reusable shopping bags. So the stores provided either the cheap t-shirt bags, the higher quality reusable plastic bags or paper grocery bags but, following the existing laws, charged customers for the bags. That seemed wrong to me. I suppose I could have just thrown everything back in the cart and taken it out to the car to put in my own bags but didn’t want to have to do that.
So I started to use the self checkout, and when the machine asked how many store-provided bags I used, I answered zero every time. Never mind the fact that I was using four or five of their bags. Fortunately, they’ve resumed letting customers bring in reusable bags, but I’ve continued to use the self checkout anyhow.
I always bring my own tote bags when I go grocery shopping. At some point during the pandemic the Harris Teeter I usually shop at started making me load my own groceries. I had no problem with this, as it enabled me to pack them the way I wanted it done. A few weeks ago the checkout line had a bagger, but when I went shopping last week I had to pack my own bags.
Yes but as I said, during the pandemic, the stores here didn’t allow customers to bring in outside bags (either on their own or at the direction of state or local health officials). But under the existing regulations, they charged for store-provided bags. That’s the bit I objected to and why I used self-checkout and lied when the machine asked whether I used store-provided bags.
I hate it when using the self-checkout and a store employee comes over and bags up my stuff. I know they’re just trying to help, but I prefer to do it myself; they never do it correctly. I worked at Safeway for a dozen years and I know what I’m doing.
I hardly ever use the self-checkout, but when I do I’ve never had someone come over to bag my stuff.
Pre-pandemic the baggers at Harris Teeter seemed to have a good idea what they were doing. Frozen/refrigerated items were bagged together, canned items in the bottom, and soft items like bread on the top. They would even ask if I wanted things like packaged meat to be put in plastic bags before being put in my totes so they wouldn’t leak juices.
Redboxes have pages? I always thought the big sign next to the machine listed all the available movies. Then again I haven’t used one in years…
~Max
Apparently early Redboxs only had space for about 100 dics, however, currently per Wikipedia -
The company’s typical self-service vending kiosk combines an interactive touch screen and sign. It uses a robotic disc array system containing a stacked carousel of DVDs[77] and web-linked electronic communications. Kiosks can be located indoors or out and can hold more than 600 DVDs with 70–200 titles, updated weekly.[78] The kiosks are built as modules, and in areas with higher sales figures, a second machine can be connected to the first one in order to offer a wider selection.
In my experience, there’d probably been around 100-120 titles at any one time. But that of course varies.