# People at the supermarket who bug you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973 "2001-10-17T13:40:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/141 "2001-10-27T10:44:34Z")
Uh, it was a joke. We do that here. ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/142 "2001-10-27T19:34:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mogwei22 \* > \*\ ***Scarlett67** > Not necessarily a guy thing as I’m a girl, but I guess my wallet is more masculine then feminine. No change purse for me. Most times I don’t even carry a wallet, I just use my back pocket for cash and cards and my front pocket for change. > > I mostly have a problem with the way the change is usually waterfalled into my hand as there is no way I can control the flow of coin as it crashes on the counter. \*\* It’s cause you got them girly little hands! 🙂 I usually charge it but when I pay cash I prefer the change on top. I slide the coins into my other hand and pocket them. Then I put the bills in my wallet. ---
**Author:** ![They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/They_Call_Me_Sneeze)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/143 "2001-10-27T21:41:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dinsdale \* > \*\*Hasn’t been mentioned for a while, but it really is a pain when you finally make it to the front with your purchases including ETOH and the checker shouts out “21.” Stupid law. > \*\* What? ETOH? And why shouting 21? love Sneeze, who does not understand ---
**Author:** ![MrPeabody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MrPeabody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrPeabody)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/144 "2001-10-27T21:44:04Z")
I do most of my shopping with my wife at say 10 pm. It is a time we can relax, look around when we are not with our kids. My rant is for the parents who insist on draging a small child to the store at that hour. It’s way past the kids bedtime and the parent gets livid when the tired child makes a fuss. I want to scream “the kids tired he should be in bed leave him alone”. Note its not the kid screaming that gets me the kid just needs the sleep. ---
**Author:** ![DopeyDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@DopeyDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DopeyDave)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/145 "2001-10-27T23:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*Uh, it was a joke. We do that here. \*\* Aaaargh! Sucked in was I. (And probably defensive about my original rebuttal, which I thought looked too long, but which I couldn’t make succinct.) Thanks for the gentle wake-up. DD ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/146 "2001-10-28T00:49:37Z")
This may be a repeat; I haven’t read every post in this thread: At my local Albertson’s, the employees have taken to bringing in the shopping carts from outside and lining them up so that they face the door in several rows, getting closer and closer to the door as they bring in still more carts, until there’s hardly any room for you to get in the door and around the cart and into the store, and when you come out again, just try maneuvering your cart around the long rows of carts to get to the door! YAAAAAUUUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Please, for the love of God, leave at least a few of the damn carts inside! You are trying to defy the laws of physics by cramming them all into the little entrance! Whew. I feel a little better now. ---
**Author:** ![Ginkgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3bc359/32.png) [@Ginkgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ginkgo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/147 "2001-10-28T10:37:03Z")
Originally posted by They Call Me Sneeze > [@](#): > > ## quote: > > Originally posted by Dinsdale > Hasn’t been mentioned for a while, but it really is a pain when you finally make it to the front with your purchases including ETOH and the checker shouts out “21.” Stupid law. > > * * * > > What? ETOH? And why shouting 21? > > love > Sneeze, who does not understand ETOH = ethanol - liquor, beer, etc. Employees under the legal age for drinking can’t ring it up, at least in the state where I live. Hilarity ensues when every store employee over the age of 21 disappears rather than walk over and scan the item for the poor cashier. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-at-the-supermarket-who-bug-you/87973/148 "2001-11-14T14:55:15Z")
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