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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 4/14/2019 1:23 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2019-04-14 12:40 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 4/14/2019 10:51 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One incident was definite rudeness and not a matter of being zone out.
>>>> I was third in line an an express checkout to pay for my box of
>>>> strawberries and there were several more line up behind me.The front
>>>> guy was paying so I am almost there, and a woman stepped in front of me
>>>> and put her item on the conveyor in front of my berries. Excuse me! She
>>>> said that she only had one item and she was in a hurry. Well I had one
>>>> item and I was in a hurry. It was the express checkout and the people
>>>> behind each had only a few things. This was a nice looking, nicely
>>>> dressed women, not a Walmart shopper. That was simply rudeness and
>>>> entitlement.
>>>
>>> Okay... once again, I've never encountered anything like that. Wow.

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>>
>> I suppose you have never been at a food counter and had someone weasel in
>> ahead of you either.

>
> No, I haven't. Then again I'm not sure what you mean by a food counter.
>
>> Maybe it is a cultural thing. There are a lot of Italians in that city
>> and old Italian women can be pretty pushy. We get most of our meat from
>> an Italian butcher these days. When we first started going there it was
>> pretty frustrating dealing with these little old ladies because they
>> would walk up to the counter ahead of me. The counter people knew it was
>> a problem and tried hard to deal with those who were there first. Thank
>> goodness they got a numbered ticket system.
>>

> Absolutely no markets like that anywhere I've ever lived.


Weird!