On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:46:12 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> Sheldon wrote:
>>
>>> I would think that the trouble with that is that you open yourself to
>>> the suspicion that you are not going to pay for it, �like the many
>>> people who help themselves to items in the store and then dump the
>>> packaging and don't pay. �The staff will have to keep an eye on you to
>>> make sure that you pay, or assume that you won't. If you really have to
>>> have a drink to get you through your shopping the best thing to do is to
>>> go through the checkout, pay for it and get the receipt, then go back to
>>> do your shopping.
>>
>> ****Dave "Bundt Miester" Schmidt ****
>>
>> Yeah, right... she's gonna wait on line for like 40 minutes to pay for
>> a gator aid and then feel like shopping... the store loses out because
>> by your stalag rulz I'd never return. Dave, you are one sick puppy.
>
> LOL, but I would suggest that the sock puppy is the one who resorts to
> hyperbole like a 40 minute wait in the checkout to get a bottle of
> gatorade. Even you should be bright enough to realize that when stores
> have to worry about people stealing things they would just as well not
> have them as customers., and as I pointed out, walking around drinking
> something that has not been paid for presents the probability that they
> will assume that the person is not going to pay for it. I suggested
> that paying for it and getting the receipt is the safer thing to do.
>
>>
>> It's patently obvious that you were not raised in the US of A.
>>
>> Gestapo Alert!
>
> Oh??? I believe this thread started with an incident in the US of A.

sheldon is as nutty as a fruitcake minus the fruit and cake.

your pal,
blake