I wasn’t whinning, I was simply including it among the stores I go to.
Normally, I would have found it funny, too, but not after the “munchies” crack. It was presumptive and indiscreet.
Huh. Well, I don’t consider saying someone has the munchies is in anyway insulting or rude. Everyone gets the munchies. It’s not a moral failing.
Now, if he had said, “Someone’s smoking dope!” then I would still have laughed but I could see why others wouldn’t. And if he had said, “This stuff is bad for you,” then I would say he’s being a tool. But saying someone’s got the munchies is offensive? Huh.
And saying “smugglers” is as much making fun of the movie theater’s policy of “no outside food or beverage” than putting a value judgement on daithi.
I swear people must going around looking for things to take offense at.
Yeah, that was funny . . .
Yeah, like those people who go into pit threads and get their undies in a bundle because other people are venting irritation about something. What’s with those nutcases?
Yeah, I know it’s sounding like I’m whinging on about it. I just wonder why he felt he needed to make a comment at all. My life didn’t fall apart, the Whoppers were still yummy, the movie was just as enjoyable … but why was his first reaction to a late-30’s guy and his wife, “Whoa - must be the munchies!”? And the sing-song way he said it made it clear what the implication was.
Jaysus, imagine how paranoid I would have been if I was high? 
Because he was high.
I’d bet dollars to donuts. Stoney folks always go straight for the “you’re stoned too!” place, and they say dumb shit even while on the job. Older gentlemen like to get high just as much as anybody else, and if I was working at CVS, frankly you’d be lucky if I didn’t show up tripping balls on shrooms just to get through the day without my brain melting from the boredom. And I don’t even like hallucinogens.
The smugglers comment would have made me like the guy, not get mad at him, personally, but the “munchies” was, I’d say, mildly inappropriate.
I guess I am too fuddy-duddy and I wouldn’t read “munchies” as pot-related, just as the cravings everyone gets.
But the only way that comment would be funny is if he said, in that voice, “Uh-oh, looks like someone has a case of the munchies”.
We have baggers here and I end up having to cockblock (or c—block) them to get to the bags myself since they do a shitty job. There’s one cashier who does a great job and I go to her line even if she has more people waiting. She’s quick and accurate and manages to have a pleasant exchange without saying anything about my purchases. And they aren’t some drone, they are my neighbors and townsfolk so I want to get along with them.
Agreed on all fronts. Having partaken of a fair share of the gentle weed in wilder times, I can tell you that stoners are always trying to figure out if other people are high too becuase it’s just the coolest thing ever, especially if it’s people you don’t expect to, like a 30-something married couple or a famous actor.
When I was a cashier I would ask, “Oooh, how old is your baby?” to the man buying formula (15 minutes was his answer, there was a hospital right down the street) and “Oh, what kind of dog do you have?” to the lady buying dog food.
But, to the woman buying cigarettes, beer, Doritos, Coke with cash and cereal and cheese with food stamps I kept my comments to myself.
There’s a difference between making conversation and expressing unwanted opinions. I’m there to buy stuff. I do not need your social commentary on my purchases. That’s intrusive and rude. I will be glad to tell you how the wasabi peas are, or how the mix of red beans and rice turns out. Anything beyond that is nunya.
Here’s the thing: you are at a job to serve the customers and make them have a pleasant shopping experience so that the establishment makes a profit so that they can continue to employ you.
You are not at a job to amuse or express yourself.
If you can’t discern whether your comments are likely to further the first or the second of the above statements (not whether you’d be offended if someone said them to you, as you don’t think for everyone else), you are best off saying as little as possible, really.
I liked ivylass’s examples above of things you may say to a customer that show interest and are not likely to be considered nosy or rude.
Who’s worse, the user or the pusher?
My supermarket has baggers, who always ask if they can bring the groceries to your car (no, but it’s nice they ask) and checkers who speak to you but never are jerks. It’s one of the reasons we go there. That, and there are no self-checkout registers, and that they were wonderful to our guide dog puppies when we brought them shopping with us for training.
There is another grocery closer, but we go there only if something is on sale, and then only buy what’s on sale. Sometime cashiers can keep people coming back - or they can drive people away.
No, you just came into a thread that was about rude service people and started carrying on as if the thread were advocating rudeness TO service people.
It wasn’t/isn’t. This thread is about nosy grocery store clerks who say rude and nosy things regarding customers’ purchases. And if they DO behave in such a way, the deserve any snarky retort that comes their way.
If the thread was about rude customers who, For No Reason, are rude to a service person, then you’d have a reason to rant. Since it’s not, and no such thing has been suggested (that of a customer being rude just to be rude), you really should have either, started your own rant, or perhaps, simply not interjected with comments that didn’t have anything to do with the OP.