# I've decided I'm going to start taking a full grocery cart to the express lane **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704 "2014-03-14T17:28:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/61 "2014-03-16T18:37:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Getting back to work. I’d rather not spend minutes spend my lunch hour listening to the checkers chat. > :dubious: Well, I work too, pretty much every day. But my work isn’t so earth-shatteringly important that 3-10 minutes out of my day is going to affect a damned thing in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps the difference is, some people have little interest in social interaction with other humans, and some people think that human interaction - even casual interaction - is important for social and mental health. To me, the latter is important, so chit-chatting with random people is rarely time wasted in my universe. I enjoy it, and enjoy humans, and enjoy chit-chatting about Mundane Pointless Stiff I Must Share with, occasionally, Actual Humans. 😃 For people who regard ten minutes of casual day-to-day human interaction as an onerous waste of time, clearly your mileage will vary and your comfort level with human interaction is a negative, not a positive thing, and that is OK too. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/62 "2014-03-16T20:27:34Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Several years ago, I read a piece that changed my attitude about waiting in line. I take it as an opportunity to develop patience and observe the details of my surroundings. It’s a good thing. Yep. Waiting can be good quiet time, or good thinking time, or just good people watching time. For those who simply can’t imagine being more chill about it, consider having groceries delivered. I started using Von’s (Safeway) delivery a couple of months ago, and it works beautifully. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/63 "2014-03-17T16:23:49Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > This happened at the grocery store where I usually shop. > [Health law glitches: fatal or fleeting?](http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20131007/NEWS/131009770) I’m going to take a giant risk here and state that a man dropping his gun and accidentally shooting himself is **not** the same thing as someone hulking out and going all :mad: at a fellow shooper and pulling out their firearm and yelling, “Thou hath doth broken one of thy Lords Commandments by thou having a shopping carriage with more grocery items than thoust should! Now prepare to meet thy Lord Himself and beg for his Divine Forgiveness!” and Rambo-ing the poor soul to death. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > [Old Roll Eyes] :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/64 "2014-03-17T21:56:03Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > :rolleyes: You go look at how much rarer that emoticon is now that it looks different. Roll your eyes all you want, but people aren’t using the new ones to mean the same thing as the old ones. We no longer have an emoticon that shows contempt. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/65 "2014-03-17T22:06:01Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > We no longer have an emoticon that shows contempt. Wait, we have to use our words? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/66 "2014-03-17T22:09:31Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You go look at how much rarer that emoticon is now that it looks different. Roll your eyes all you want, but people aren’t using the new ones to mean the same thing as the old ones. We no longer have an emoticon that shows contempt. : old roll eyes : ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/67 "2014-03-17T22:29:17Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I’m going to take a giant risk here and state that a man dropping his gun and accidentally shooting himself is **not** the same thing as someone hulking out and going all :mad: at a fellow shooper and pulling out their firearm and yelling, “Thou hath doth broken one of thy Lords Commandments by thou having a shopping carriage with more grocery items than thoust should! Now prepare to meet thy Lord Himself and beg for his Divine Forgiveness!” and Rambo-ing the poor soul to death. Sure, I was just pointing out how some people, for reasons I don’t really understand, bring guns to the grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/68 "2014-03-17T23:57:00Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Sure, I was just pointing out how some people, for reasons I don’t really understand, bring guns to the grocery store. Some of that beef is pretty rare, Pardner. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/69 "2014-03-18T00:09:40Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > What supermarkets need most of all is a separate lane (or several) for shoppers with WIC coupons! Those take horribly long for the cashiers to deal with, and WIC shoppers commonly have a while handful of them! That would be illegal (or at least a violation of the contract w/ the government). There’s a bunch of rules stores have to follow to participate in the program, and one of them is not singling out users like that. Same deal with Foodstamps. > [@GESancMan](#): > > Can we extend this idea to convenience stores and lottery tickets? It infuriates me when I go into 7-11 to by a Super Big Gulp, and have to wait in line for ten minutes while several people are buying their lottery tickets. They should have their own damn line so the rest of us can get in and out. God help the poor clerk get’s between a senior citizen and her lottery tickets. > [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Are you 106 years old? Do honestly believe that supermarkets don’t have cart wranglers anymore? And that old-timey cashiers didn’t just give back whatever change the non-computerized cash register told them to? > > Seriously, who holds these opinions anymore? Personally I wish more places used Aldi’s system; put a quarter in a slot & get it back when you return the cart. I’ve never seen a stray cart in their lot. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704/70 "2014-03-18T02:08:54Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > You seem to have lots of stories of throwing tantrums in public (shoving peoples bags off of bus seats if you wants to sit down, reading their cell phone texts if they’re annoying you, smacking them with your cast, etc). And of course, there’s the big-ass fit you threw that landed you in the psychiatric ward. what gets me isn’t even so much the crazy act (although her behavior as described is appalling) but the fact that she’s so damn proud of herself for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-im-going-to-start-taking-a-full-grocery-cart-to-the-express-lane/683704.md?page=3)