…that turns everyone into drooling morons? I just got back from the grocery store, which was packed. I get out of my car and walk toward the store and some woman roars out of her parking spot without so much as a glance over her shoulder, nearly sending me into one of those huge piles of snow the plows build up. She didn’t bother to say sorry - I’m not even sure she ever saw me at all.
Inside the store, everyone has lost their spatial awareness. I’m not very tolerant of this on normal days, but today was something special. People walking down the middle of the aisle, then leaving their carts to block all traffic to stare at some product that of course they don’t purchase. There was not one but two old women who had neither a cart or a basket just wandering the aisles and stopping to stare at random things. I nearly ran over both of them when they came to an abrupt halt right in front of me. It was as if they had just flown in from North Korea and were seeing a grocery store for the first time.
Then I get to the self checkout and find it full of people with overflowing carts clogging it all up. And of course they had no idea how to either operate the machine or pay for their purchases!
Happy Motherfucking New Year! I am not leaving the house until 2015.
I don’t know what the deal is with that driver, but once inside its fair to expect a bit of a mad house especially. If its a grocery store, on New Year’s Eve.
Yeah, I went, too. Fucking zoo. People staggering around like Sleeping Jesus. Don’t even get me started on the parking lot.
Picked up a real nice New York roast, got home and my fucking stove is broken and won’t light for god or me.
I thought ahead and grabbed some pork chops, too. I can toss them on the grill. The grill outside on the deck. Its about 12 degrees outside right now. Niiiice.
The DVR stopped recording the football game early. I missed the end. My kid is off his fucking nut and driving me bonkers. The house is a disaster.
They’re all drooling morons all year round. You just see all the more of them, concentrated, all at once, on the big shopping-day holiday run-ups. Many of them quite possibly more drunk than usual, of course.
I work in a tourist industry in south FL and sweet loving Jesus there are some serious idiots this season. I can’t wait until next week when most of them are gone. The dum has been unbelievable.
Well, OK. But, really, if you want to be thought of as one of the Smart Ones, you wouldn’t be anywhere near a grocery store on the eve of any holiday. The Smart Ones plan ahead. Go ahead and call me a Smart Ass, but hey, I wasn’t there. Bought all my shit on Sunday.
I was thinking of this thread as I left the grocery store today. It wasn’t the customers who were the morons, it was clear however that the “C” team was in charge because it was a holiday.
My cashier looked stoned and if she moved any slower or showed less personality she would be dead. The line next to me the cashier was paging puzzlingly through the store circular to seek proof of a claimed bargain by the customer. The other line next to me it appeared it was taking five extra minutes for the customer to get checked out because the cashier needed an override by the manager on duty, who looked like he was 14.
I had exactly the opposite experience. Went to a small market in a small beach town in Ca. The line for the meat counter went around the corner and down one complete aisle. The place was packed. Everyone was polite, the market had a guy directing everyone to the shortest checkout line and even unloaded their stuff from their carts. We didn’t need to get anything from the meat counter and were in and out in 20 minutes. Everyone was pleasant. Life is good.
