# Pithy observation from the guy behind you in line **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699 "2013-09-26T03:12:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/1 "2013-09-26T03:12:37Z")
I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work. They have been selling beautiful bunches of carnations really cheap, and I wanted to get some. I figured as long as I was there, I may as well pick up some cat food. So I go over to the checkout, and I put down the cat food. And I put down the flowers. After about a minute, the guy behind me says, “Boy, you musta really pissed off that cat!” I chuckled all the way home. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/2 "2013-09-26T03:56:18Z")
I’m laughing with you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/3 "2013-09-26T05:54:28Z")
gave me the giggles ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/4 "2013-09-26T09:13:55Z")
If you had been buying dog-food… “Good luck with the bitch”? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/5 "2013-09-26T12:36:18Z")
made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/6 "2013-09-26T13:31:53Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > If you had been buying dog-food… > > “Good luck with the bitch”? Um yeah… the original comment? Funny. Yours? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/7 "2013-09-26T13:54:26Z")
I LOLed. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/8 "2013-09-26T14:06:02Z")
I was sent by by GF out to the store to buy a box of condoms … and at the same time, to pick up a large raw turkey she had ordered. Just those two items. That earned me a truly classic look from the cashier. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/9 "2013-09-26T14:22:17Z")
Malthus, if you had bought duck instead of turkey, you’d have that rhyme thing working for you. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/10 "2013-09-26T14:39:37Z")
My best combo is buying _only_ Cheerios and a gallon of wiper fluid. Blindness never tasted so good! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/11 "2013-09-26T14:42:31Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Malthus, if you had bought duck instead of turkey, you’d have that rhyme thing working for you. 😃 True, that. My story isn’t as amusing as the OP’s, in that I didn’t actually get a pithy observation … though I could tell the cashier was thinking of one! ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/12 "2013-09-26T15:06:33Z")
A few years ago, I was at the grocery picking up a few items and going through the self check out. There was a young couple (early 20’s) in front of me also getting a few things, 12 pack of beer, chips, snacks, etc. The woman saw a small bouquet of flowers and reached to get them. The boyfriend, says “fuck that”, you’re not getting those. Girlfriend clearly looks dejected. As I checked out, I grabbed the small bouquet and purchased them. They were $5. As I walked out of the store and walked past the couple I handed the flowers to the young lady, and said, “excuse me, but you look like you could use these.” She said, thanks, the boyfriend was speechless. I got in my car and drove away. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/13 "2013-09-26T15:37:18Z")
A couple of years ago I had to get something from Home Depot. I saw that they had some orchid plants on sale, so I just about filled my cart with orchids. The guy behind me commented “Either you did something really bad, or you must really, really love her.” So I corrected his pronoun, “Yes, I really, really love him.” The guy responded with “Oh, MAN!” and never again made eye contact with me. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/14 "2013-09-26T16:59:37Z")
I get really tired of people saying ‘Do you have cats?’ when they see me at the super market with a large bag of cat food. A while back a cashier asked me this, and with a deadpan face I replied ‘Oh no, pour some milk on em and these are great’. She got this kind of dead in headlights look, and I could only hold the laughter in for a few more seconds. Once in college I was at the store with my friend in the checkout line, and a very old man pulls up behind us with an entire cart stacked high with adult diapers. We stared for a second, and I said ‘Wonder what he’s doing tonight’, and my friend replied ‘Depends I guess’. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/15 "2013-09-26T17:10:03Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there Really? Still? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/16 "2013-09-26T19:20:10Z")
I love playing this game. A few weeks ago the guy behind me was buying five big multi-roll packages of toilet paper and two roasting chickens. 😕:eek: And another time a woman was buying a bottle of vodka and a plastic half-gallon of cheap iced tea, so I had a name-the-cocktail contest on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/17 "2013-09-26T19:30:44Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I love playing this game. A few weeks ago the guy behind me was buying five big multi-roll packages of toilet paper and two roasting chickens. 😕:eek: > > And another time a woman was buying a bottle of vodka and a plastic half-gallon of cheap iced tea, so I had a name-the-cocktail contest on Facebook. Trailer Park Tea? 🙂 If only we could appease cats with flowers - alas, nothing but peeing on things will do for them. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/18 "2013-09-26T19:31:50Z")
When I was in college band, every year we had a road-rally scavenger hunt. One year, one of the items we had to produce was a receipt from a convenience store showing exactly three items: A bunch of bananas, a box of condoms, and Vaseline. ---
**Author:** ![bodangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bodangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bodangus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/19 "2013-09-26T23:05:24Z")
At the checkout with 2 cans of dog food and a bottle of cheap wine, I was asked what kind of dog I had. I said I didn’t have a dog. Ba dum tshhh ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699/20 "2013-09-26T23:31:11Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > I get really tired of people saying ‘Do you have cats?’ when they see me at the super market with a large bag of cat food. A while back a cashier asked me this, and with a deadpan face I replied ‘Oh no, pour some milk on em and these are great’. I’m so totally stealing this if I ever get this question. I don’t think quickly on my feet very well, but I can do a mean eyebrow-raised deadpan if I’ve internalized an answer. > [@](#): > > … She got this kind of dead in headlights look… Awesome typo/auto-correct. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observation-from-the-guy-behind-you-in-line/669699.md?page=2)