On May 29, 12:13*am, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Yesterday, I went through the checkout line with
> a small quantity of peppers. *I watch the stocking
> situation at the supermarket, and only buy when
> the stock is recent and good quality.
>
> CHECKER: *Okay, what is this? *[Holding bag up.]
>
> ME: *Habanero chili peppers.
>
> CHECKER: *[Riffles through instruction pages.]
>
> ME: *I believe that's thirty-one twenty five.
>
> CHECKER: *Huh? *Oh, you mean the code, right?
>
> ME: *Yes.
>
> CHECKER: *Okay, let's try that. *[Immediately
> registers as Habanero Chili.] *You're good!
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> Today, a similar situation with the same checker.
>
> CHECKER: *What's this? *[Holds up bag of Brussels sprouts.]
>
> ME: *Forty-five fifty.
>
> Of course, when the code is punched in, it registers
> as "Brussel sprt" or whatever on the computer display.
>
> And as I leave the checkstand, I hear her telling
> the next customer:
>
> CHECKER: *That's my favorite customer!
> He knows all of the codes!
>
> Which is not quite true. *I know a few codes which get
> me checked out sooner, because they have in the past been
> delays. *The supermarket does not sell many of certain
> items, which are sometimes items that I buy. *Checkers
> are often not familiar with the codes for these
> seldom-sold items.

You are my favorite kind of person to be behind in line because you
try to expedite the checkout process. I do that same remembering the
codes for the self checkout line. I did that 2 days ago with Vidalia
onions. All I remember now is that it started with a 4

--Bryan