Wednesday, February 6, 2008

DON'T BRING ME DOWN

I like grocery shopping. I know it’s weird but, since I like to cook, wandering the aisles puts me in a creative mood. Start with produce….what looks good? What can I make from it? What goes with? Mind you, I’m no foodie…no gourmet. I just like to cook and I cook from scratch because I fear the stuff on labels I can’t pronounce. I read labels because I’m afraid NOT to. Think I’m exaggerating? Humor me and compare the labels on sour cream….any brand…whatever you have in the frig. Then read the Daisy Sour Cream label. Yeah I know, the one with the llame commercial “ . a dollop of Daisy….” Work with me here. I’ll save you the trouble. There’s ONE ingredient – grade A cultured cream…that’s it … compared to a LIST of unpronounceable gelatins and preservatives in the others. Scary no?! Well it is to me.

Anyway, I have peeves…things that flat PISS ME OFF and threaten to ruin my shopping experience: First, the G-damn intercom system in Winco and the checkers’ insistence on hitting that additional (unnecessary) SQUAWK button when they page. I shop with my iPod, happy music in my ears to cover most of it up and to keep from getting grumpy but still it leaks through. Second, people who change their flipping mind and set their abandoned item on a random shelf, especially when it’s a perishable. What kind of brain dead idiot doesn’t think that costs us all when they say…”Oh I don’t want this cheese…I’ll just leave it here with ….the Cheerios”. ? Third, people who are unwilling to put shopping carts away in the corrals in the parking lot. They have just done a half-marathon, wandering around a freakin’acre of food and assorted obstacles and they can’t manage a FEW MORE FEET to put the cart away to keep it from planting itself in the side of a car! Don’t get me started on the unsupervised little urchins allowed to put their fingers in the bulk bins and taste the generic jello or drink mix or whatever. I wouldn’t buy that stuff but, if I were in charge of the bulk bins, I’d put the pinto beans down low and the pretty candies and fruity flavored ANYTHING up too high for the oompaloompahs to reach. Where is the couth and decorum? Where is Miss Manners?

OK … better now. Ommmmmmmmmmmmm…

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my God....it's like we are shopping in the same store. Hey, we are!

people who change their flipping mind and set their abandoned item on a random shelf Oh, it pisses me off too. Or their abandoned Starbucks cups on the shelves.

People nowadays are P-I-G-S. PIGS.
Uncouth is absolutely right.

And it's not just Winco. Target. Jo-Ann Fabrics...K-Mart, Mervyns, Just to name a few. What is wrong with people? No Fetchin' up...I tell you.

Good and just rant, Beachcomber.

Tapperass said...

I will try this again, my last post did not seem to take:

After reading this, I am glad I am not the only one. I do my own shopping there, as well as assist some of my clients. I am at WINCO a lot.

I have walked clear across the store to put back items. If you are already in the check out, you can hand unwanted items to the cashier. Beats inserted an unwanted item in with the magazines!

I only get beans and chili powder from the bulk bins.

-boy

Kym said...

Yesterday I saw a pkg of turkey in the cereal shelf at costco. I didn't put it back and felt guilty all day. How do people deal with not cleaning up their own stuff.

(although upon reflection, I'm not sure how long the turkey was unrefrigerated so probably not a good idea to stick it back with the good food.)