Circumbobulation

[for_the_beauty]

I think I may have stated in a previous entry (I'm too lazy to hit the one button to check) that I felt a bit ripped off about our abbreviated summer because I didn't get a chance to wear all my summer clothes. To me, this statement sounds a bit . . . I don't know . . . like I have fifteen closets full of designer clothes and that I'm really into

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[purplepoppet]

Oh oh oh, don't even get me started on supermarket bagging. It's a total pet peeve of mine. I do the same thing you do: heavy items first, then I do frozen, then boxed items (ie: cereal, rice, pasta, etc), then the rest. But, it NEVER ends up packed that way and it drives me bonkers, lol. That and when they put 2 or 3 items in bag and you end up with 20 bags instead of, say, 5. I wouldn't mind if the bags were paper but they don't offer those, only plastic. Bad bagging one of the reasons I like to use to self-check out registers (do you have those there?) because you do everything yourself, but if I must go through a register with a cashier, it's gotten to the point where I just ask/tell them not to bother to bag it, I'll do it myself.

I think the final straw was when I picked up a freshly decorated cake from the bakery department back in August and the cashier proceeded to put the clear plastic container it was in in the bag ON IT'S SIDE to make room for the other couple of items I had. Dumbass was genuinely surprised when I told her to cancel the order because I had to go get another cake.

[for_the_beauty]

You know, it makes you wonder . . . surely the cashier wouldn't have done that to her own cake. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between people and stuff they handle that isn't theirs. Although I will admit there is a percentage of truly dense humans out there.

Yes, we do have self-check out registers, but a) they're not as ubiquitous here as in the U.S., and b) whenever I see self-check out stands, they're either not working properly, or they're being used by people who have absolutely no clue what they're doing. The line-ups for them always seem twice as long as the cashier-manned tills. Which sort of defeats the purpose . . . until the technology and peoples' brains get ironed out.