On 2014-07-07 20:21, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/7/2014 7:46 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2014-07-07 16:45, sf wrote:
>>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:11:56 -0400, pltrgyst > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/7/14, 12:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> One of life's big disappointment is to be in a grocery store checkout
>>>>> line behind a very attractive woman.... and then she grabs one of
>>>>> those
>>>>> gossip rags. You are struck with the reality of the notion that brains
>>>>> and beauty do not mix.
>>>>
>>>> ^ +1! 8
>>>>
>>> Only if she buys it. Fortunately, there are decent cooking magazines
>>> to peruse while waiting in line these days.
>>>
>>
>> It was a grocery store not Starbucks attached to a Chapters.
>
> I still don't understand why people are standing in line reading rag
> newspapers at the grocery store. Are the lines really that long? Is
> the wait time all that much? I don't need reading material when I'm at
> the checkout stand. Maybe I'm just odd.
>

When I mentioned that observation I was referring to people buying the
magazines. It never occurred to me that they were just reading while
they waited, especially since, being that close to the magazines would
mean they are next in line.