# Rage at the Grocery store... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745 "2012-06-10T18:50:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/1 "2012-06-10T18:50:52Z")
Why is it, every FUCKING time I go to the grocery store, I invariably encounter some fucking family that felt the need to bring EVERYONE in the family to the store. To put it another way, when did a trip for groceries turn into a FUCKING FAMILY VACATION? Leave your goddamned kids at home. No one wants to hear them scream like they’ve been stuck with a hot branding iron because you won’t buy them sugary junk or the No-Panty Barbie. Whatever happened to make a list and send one person? For fuck’s sake, you can call them or text them if you left something off the list. But leave grandma, grandpa, cousin Cletus, aunt Gladys and ALL your kids at home. By the way, the sample stations at Costco are not a FUCKING LUNCH COUNTER. If you block the aisle with your cart because you’re getting a piece of polska kielbasa on a piece of sourdough, I’m going to read-end it like a semi hittiing a bicycle. There should be millions more abortions and mandatory sterilization for people this stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/2 "2012-06-10T18:59:29Z")
This is going to end well ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/3 "2012-06-10T19:03:47Z")
Isn’t COSTCO aimed at families? What are you doing shopping there? ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/4 "2012-06-10T19:07:49Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > This is going to end well The pit is for rants, right? This is my rant. You should put me on your ignore list. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/5 "2012-06-10T19:08:32Z")
Great, another child-hater. In my opinion, they are lower scum than racists. ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/6 "2012-06-10T19:09:32Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > Isn’t COSTCO aimed at families? What are you doing shopping there? That doesn’t mean you have to drag them all there to shop. It’s not Chucky Cheese FFS. It’s not a playground and it’s not a soup kitchen. It’s not day care and it’s not a pediatrician’s office. You don’t need to make Costco a vacation spot. ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/7 "2012-06-10T19:10:38Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Great, another child-hater. In my opinion, they are lower scum than racists. Yep, I’m a child hater. Breeders are lower scum than almost anything. You breed 'em, you feed 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/8 "2012-06-10T19:13:58Z")
> [@5f4super](#): > > Yep, I’m a child hater. > > Breeders are lower scum than almost anything. You breed 'em, **you feed 'em**. Hence, the visit to Costco. Anyway, The place is nuts, kids or no kids. I don’t share your frustration. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/9 "2012-06-10T19:13:59Z")
> [@5f4super](#): > > Yep, I’m a child hater. > > Breeders are lower scum than almost anything. You breed 'em, you feed 'em. They’re trying. But you keep hitting their shopping carts and bruising the produce. ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/10 "2012-06-10T19:16:11Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Hence, the visit to Costco. Anyway, The place is nuts, kids or no kids. I don’t share your frustration. Not your rant, so that’s ok. I stand by what I wrote. Every post. ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/11 "2012-06-10T19:17:27Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > They’re trying. But you keep hitting their shopping carts and bruising the produce. I’ve also taken to making sure if I have to fart or burp, I make it as loud as I can, in the presence of children. If nothing else, I want to be a bad influence. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/12 "2012-06-10T19:20:33Z")
> [@5f4super](#): > > Yep, I’m a child hater. > > Breeders are lower scum than almost anything. You breed 'em, you feed 'em. We are feeding 'em. What do you think we’re doing at Costco anyway? ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/13 "2012-06-10T19:22:05Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > We are feeding 'em. What do you think we’re doing at Costco anyway? Taking a family vacation, from the look of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/14 "2012-06-10T19:23:43Z")
> [@5f4super](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Why is it, every FUCKING time I go to the grocery store, I invariably encounter some fucking family that felt the need to bring EVERYONE in the family to the store. > > Perhaps you just pick shitty times to go shopping… > > > [@](#): > > > > Leave your goddamned kids at home. No one wants to hear them scream… > > The grocery store isn’t the library or the doctor’s office; sometimes it isn’t possible for the kids to be “left at home”. I’m sure the parents of these kids would _much_ rather do the shopping without the hassle of the kids there, but you must do what you can. > > > [@](#): > > > > By the way, the sample stations at Costco are not a FUCKING LUNCH COUNTER. If you block the aisle with your cart because you’re getting a piece of polska kielbasa on a piece of sourdough, I’m going to read-end it like a semi hittiing a bicycle. > > Um, yes but they _are_ **SAMPLE** counters. 😕 Whether or not someone is blocking an aisle when they are partaking in such samples is irrelevant to your beef. Deal with it. > > > [@](#): > > > > There should be millions more abortions and mandatory sterilization for people this… > > . Well, I’m not quite so harsh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/15 "2012-06-10T19:28:55Z")
I am not a fan of the yelling child, nor is anyone but really this is so simple to solve on your part it doesn’t deserve a pit. If you run into a group of (loud kids|drunk frat boys|smelly hippies|zombies) just reverse your pattern, if they are in produce go start with meat. Maybe you skip some rows and double back if it bothers you or shop at night. There are tens of thousands of square feet here begging to be used as a buffer and I personally think teaching a kid how to shop is a valid use case for a small portion of it… ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/16 "2012-06-10T19:52:46Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > I am not a fan of the yelling child, nor is anyone but really this is so simple to solve on your part it doesn’t deserve a pit. > > If you run into a group of (loud kids|drunk frat boys|smelly hippies|zombies) just reverse your pattern, if they are in produce go start with meat. Maybe you skip some rows and double back if it bothers you or shop at night. > > There are tens of thousands of square feet here begging to be used as a buffer and I personally think teaching a kid how to shop is a valid use case for a small portion of it.. Sorry, I think it did. I wanted to rant and I did. I wanted to offend breeders and I did. Mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/17 "2012-06-10T19:55:04Z")
> [@5f4super](#): > > The pit is for rants, right? > > This is my rant. You should put me on your ignore list. Why bother? If experience is any guide, you’ll be banned by the end of the month. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/18 "2012-06-10T19:58:41Z")
I give this rant a 2 out of 10. I’m sure you could do much, much better than this boring, overdone, entitled prick rant. ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/19 "2012-06-10T20:10:51Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > I give this rant a 2 out of 10. I’m sure you could do much, much better than this boring, overdone, entitled prick rant. Got any knee pads? You need to blow me. ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745/20 "2012-06-10T20:11:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Why bother? If experience is any guide, you’ll be banned by the end of the month. What, because I offended you? :dubious: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rage-at-the-grocery-store/624745.md?page=2)