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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Presenting items in the order to pack is brilliant until the checkout person goes off piste and starts picking ad hoc from the belt!

    In fairness it is usually the younger assistants who probably never gained spacial awareness from trying to get all the shopping into one cardboard box  :#
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Customers are as bad as checkout operators. I always try to get all the cold stuff together,which sometimes means practically rummaging through the mess they've dumped on the belt
    Devon.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I wish I shopped at your Waitrose Hostafan1  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I wish I shopped at your Waitrose Hostafan1  :)
    It's a classy joint, you'd fit right in. 
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I sort out all my shopping on the belt but in a different order to B3. We work as a team with OH doing the packing into our bags in the trolley the other end. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Oh Hosta!  Sweet but sadly miles off, always lived in Surrey and Berkshire but never had a pair of those green wellies  :'( 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Oh Hosta!  Sweet but sadly miles off, always lived in Surrey and Berkshire but never had a pair of those green wellies  :'( 
    This is rural N Devon, most wellies  in our shop are covered in cow , or horse poo. Literally
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Lizzie27 said:
    I sort out all my shopping on the belt but in a different order to B3. We work as a team with OH doing the packing into our bags in the trolley the other end. 
    Are you allowed to go in in teams now?  Can’t in Spain, one person only. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited May 2020
    Ah, N Devon. My uncle who lived in Clovelly always smelt of the sea (fish mostly with a hint of salty seaweed) so maybe I should just change my perfume  :D 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    There's a sign on the Docs' surgery  " Please remove muddy boots" but it's often ignored. Folk actually turn up to the Doctor with cow sh*t on the their boots
    Devon.
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