On 4/18/2019 2:20 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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:
>>>>>
>>> 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!

It's not weird. It's demographics. I've only ever encountered a ticket
system like that at the DMV. Definitely not when buying food, not even
at the local meat market.

Jill