A little birdie told me that Bill > said:

>how about the moronic imbeciles who push their buggy's into the
>parking lot, empty their groceries into their car...and just leave the
>damn buggy sitting there in the parking lot ready to roll into
>somebody else's car when the wind blows? I think the supermarkets
>should post snipers with "paintball guns" on top of the stores to lob
>blobs of paint right onto the windshield of these idiots...

I think I love you! Can you come to my house and do that to our neighbors
who play their radio so loud that it wakes us up?

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:56:57 GMT, Dog3 >
wrote:

>Damsel in dis Dress > typed this gem in
:
>
>> A little birdie told me that "Sheldon" > said:
>>
>>>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Sarah wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > I saw a pensioner (the guy must hae been 80) stuffing his face as
>>>> > fast as he could at the grape display, it was not a pretty sight,
>>>> > he had no
>>>> >shame even
>>>
>>>Perhaps he's diabetic and really needed those grapes, like now!
>>
>> Boy, do I understand that one! Low blood sugar makes you ravenous.
>> It's also very frightening. When I had that problem from a medication
>> they'd given me to lower my blood sugar when I was first diagnosed.
>> Horrible!
>>
>> Carol
>
>I also understand that situation. Usually I go for the chocolate thoug

It can be worse than that. My ex was a very brittle type 1 diabetic
and when his blood sugar would drop too low he would have "black out"
periods where he was absolutely psychotic. Once I got him to eat, he
would suddenly just pop out of it and not remember how he'd gotten
where he was, or what he'd done in the previous hour or so. Very, very
scary thing.

Regards,
ravinwulf

Bill wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:36:28 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress
> > wrote:
>
>> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was
>> so disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty
>> plastic bottle of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten
>> roll of Rolo candies. These people have no class, and they're
>> thieves!
>>
>> The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
>> up after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.
>>
>> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
>> happening.
>>
>> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>>
>> Carol
>> --
>
> how about the moronic imbeciles who push their buggy's into the
> parking lot, empty their groceries into their car...and just leave the
> damn buggy sitting there in the parking lot ready to roll into
> somebody else's car when the wind blows? I think the supermarkets
> should post snipers with "paintball guns" on top of the stores to lob
> blobs of paint right onto the windshield of these idiots...
>
> Bill
>
Now there's a visual that made me smile!

Jill

A little birdie told me that "The Ranger" > said:

>Damsel in dis Dress > wrote in message
.. .
>>
>> The fun part of shopping is when you meet someone and
>> neither of you knows which way to move to get out of the
>> other's way. I learned the Supermarket Shuffle years ago.
>> Still don't have it right.
>
>I ask, "Is you dance card filled?"
>
>The Silver Vixen always laugh. It backfired one afternoon, though. One (I
>learned afterwards that she was dance professional at the local Arthur
>Murray) called me on it and taught me an improv waltz. All three
>daughter-units were giggling that their had dad has two left feet. (But she
>did get another two clients.) <BG>

ROFL! This is a great one!

Crash and I have a Rule. No matter where we are or what we're doing, if
the song, "Feliz Navidad" (sp?) comes on, we must dance. Of course,
neither of us knows how to dance, so a great deal of it is Crash spinning
me under his arm. For some reason, a lot of people give us weird looks.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

A little birdie told me that ravinwulf > said:

>It can be worse than that. My ex was a very brittle type 1 diabetic
>and when his blood sugar would drop too low he would have "black out"
>periods where he was absolutely psychotic. Once I got him to eat, he
>would suddenly just pop out of it and not remember how he'd gotten
>where he was, or what he'd done in the previous hour or so. Very, very
>scary thing.

My mom was a type 1 brittle diabetic. As a child, I was terrified when she
had a "reaction." She would become incoherent and confused. She signed a
school permission slip for me as "Patty" once.

I'm a type 2 who is facing the prospect of insulin, and it's my fault. I
see my doc next Monday. Damn!

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Dog3 wrote:

> After 2 or 3 times of being polite, my patience wears thin. Some people
> seem to think they are the only people in the store.


If the offender seems especially obtuse I say, "Hey, MOVE so people can get
by!".

I don't get peeps who don't get the concept of monitoring their own personal
space around them. I am ALWAYS aware of who is around me, whether front,
back, or side...

--
Best
Greg

Puester wrote:

> For some people, shopping is the only time they get out,
> practically their only social outlet. When you consider
> how expensive most activities are, it's not surprising
> that many families can't afford to go anywhere but grocery
> shopping.


Huh!? What happened to school, church, family and community doings,
etc....???

--
Best
Greg

The Ranger wrote:
> Damsel in dis Dress > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night,
>>and I was so disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found
>>a nearly empty plastic bottle of Mountain Dew. Later,
>>we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo candies.These
>>people have no class, and they're thieves!
>
> [snip]
>
>>Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?
>
>
> The hit-and-run eaters are not too big a problem where I live. When I've
> seen it, I call them on it. It can drive SWMBO nuts at times because she's a
> very passive-aggressive Gandhi type; you enact social change through
> non-violence. I'm more, call them now and handle the consequences quickly
> and (in many cases) painfully. Make them fear the reprisals and they'll not
> do it again.
>
> Have you brought this up with the manager? He might be blissfully ignorant
> hiding away in his office all day/night.
>
> The Ranger
>
>


With all due respect, this won't work. Friends of ours own a chain
grocery store. You should hear some of the horror stories. If
someomeone wants to steal, they will find a way. He was telling us of
how shoppers remove those smelly thing refills and put back the empty
container. He told us about customers who actually steal toothpaste.
Then there is the food sampling issue. Another friend who owns a
smaller grocery store tells the same story except his losses are worse.
Go figure! People think this ok?

MrsGroover wrote:

> I admit, I GENTLY squeeze the oranges, because who wants an old spongy
> (sp) orange with no juice.


Hehe...I know lotsa guys that do this with womens' breasts...and I even know
some *gals* that do the same too.

--
Best
Greg

Dog3 wrote:

> Gawd. I remember watching someone chowing down at the salad bar. He was
> most blatant about it too. He poured some soup in a cup, at it and left
the
> cup right next to the soup warmer with the spoon in it. Then he moved on
to
> the salads. UGH.


One of the reasons I won't ever get stuff from a salad bar or buffet,
whether in a store or a restaurant. You don't know WHO or WHAT has put
their grubby hands in the vittles...

--
Best
Greg

Dog3 wrote:

> ROFLMAO... Exactly the reason I seldom go to a 'buffet' style dinner at a
> chain restaurant. People turn their children loose and they finger the
food
> while coughing and sneezing all over the place. Reminds me of the time a
> group of us went to an Easter buffet at a *** restaurant. It was rare you
> ever saw a child there. Well, there was a herd of about 20 in a family
> waiting for their table. The couple hosting the bash must have had both
> families and cousins twice remove. There were about 5 kids with them. The
> children were undisciplined and ran amuck all over the place. One of the
> kids had a runny nose and was sneezing. The host and hostess thought the
> children were so cute 'playing' together.
>
> Our table was called and we went into the dining room. We got our drinks
> from the wait unit, then we to the buffet. Got back to the table and
those
> 5 kids were running all over the place. The one with the cold proceeded to
> put his chin on our table right next to my child hating friend, Betty.
> Betty told him to scram (scared the shit out of the kid) and then went to
> the children's table and said to all, and I quote, "Keep your filthly
> parasitic children out of my space. If I had want children pawing all over
> my table, I would have brought some." Betty was snarling like a rabid
dog.
> The kids left us alone after that but terrorized everyone else in the
> dining room. A complaint was made to management by the table next to ours
> but nothing was done about it.


Tell Betty to get herself over to alt.support.child-free ;-)

--
Best
Greg

"-L." > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> > I make my living in the retail grocery universe as a field manager.
>
> <Snip.>
>
> What chain? I want to shop at a chain where they wash the carts daily.
>
> -L.
>

My entire Albertson's division is on the daily clean the cart program. We
also change our latex gloves in the deli, meat, fish, and bakery departments
with each customer.

One my pet peeves are the customers who not only take product but the
shopping carts, too. In some of our urban neighborhoods, we find our carts
miles from our stores, just strewn about. We often find them at laundry
operations and in alleys. These must be the folks who don't have cars. The
sad part is I don't often see these folks bringing the carts back when they
visit our stores to shop.

R

notbob wrote:
> On 2005-04-19, -L. > wrote:
>
> "GD people"? How many people? I've lived in CA for decades and
never
> seen a single one.

Enough to be irritating. I don't think I ever went into an Albertson's
or a Safeway that didn't have a pile of broken yams.

> BTW, just how does one "break open" a yam?

Pick up the end, whack it on the edge of the display and crack the end
off of it, or cack it down the middle. Then pull it apart. Yes, it
was brutal. <eg>

Cut
> maybe, smash possibly, but "break open"? One can't stick their
> fingers into a yam and break it open unless they're cooked or the
> person's one strong sumbitch. I suspect you saw something other than
> a yam or you're just "dumb", minus the "founded".
>
> nb

No dear, it was yams. I don't buy sweet potatoes.

-L.

Ginny Sher wrote:
> I'm glad you spoke up on this nb. I started to write a snotty
response
> about the "GD people in California" but decided against it. Indeed!
>
> Ginny <CA resident and not strong enough to break open a yam

Well, nobody else in any other state I have ever lived did it. So yes,
they were "GD" people and yes, they lived in "California". That
doesn't mean that *every* person in California does it. Sheesh.

If I said the "GD people in California who voted for Arnie", would you
be just as offended?

-L.

Dog3 wrote:
>
> I was 18 when my youngest brother was born. Mother used cloth
diapers. I
> babysat my beloved child an entire summer. I just hated to wash the
> diapers. I begged my mother to hire a diaper service. She refused.
She did
> not trust a service to sanitize and properly clean the diapers. So, I

> suffered.
>
> Michael

I wash DS's at home. It's really a piece of cake! I don't understand
why people don't so it more now, especially with the cost of dispos.
If you're home with the kid anyway, it's easy.

-L.

"Nexis" > wrote in news:v0_8e.56033$lz2.21763@fed1read07:


> Personally, I prefer the bathrooms where everything is automated:
> automatic flush, automatic sinks, automatic paper towels. The less I
> have to touch, the better.
>

I don't mind an automatic flush when it works. The only place I've seen
it, it flushed when I entered the cubicle, and again as I was about to sit.
Luckily it refrained from flushing while I was sitting, but then it
continued to refrain once I'd got up. I had to exit and re-enter the
cubicle to make it work.

I do like the ones which have a curvy corridor entrance and thus no doors
(except on the cubicles, of course).

K
--
nil illegitimi carborundum

Damsel in dis Dress > wrote in
:

> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
> bottle of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of
> Rolo candies. These people have no class, and they're thieves!
>

I left an empty bottle on a shelf once, but I hadn't stolen it, and
couldn't find a bin. Basically I'd been looking for a drink whilst
shopping with my Mum and sister, but couldn't find what I was after. So I
left the supermarket and got it at the food court before heading back into
the supermarket. Unfortunately I then found the product in the
supermarket, in a completely different section from the other drinks.
Since mine was cold, and theirs was on the shelf, I thought I'd explain it
that way, but I was so thirsty I finished it before we finished our
shopping, so I left it on a shelf rather than be forced to pay for it a
second time. I hated to think that they'd assume it had been stolen, but I
didn't know what else to do.

K
--
nil illegitimi carborundum

"Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
...

> The fun part of shopping is when you meet someone and neither of you knows
> which way to move to get out of the other's way. I learned the
> Supermarket Shuffle years ago. Still don't have it right.

It's called 'keep to the right', just like driving your car.

PhotoMan > wrote in message
. ..
> "Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
...
> > The fun part of shopping is when you meet someone and neither
> > of you knows which way to move to get out of the other's way.
> > I learned the Supermarket Shuffle years ago. Still don't have it right.
> >
> It's called 'keep to the right', just like driving your car.

Unless you're in/from the UK, Japan, or Australia...

The Ranger

The Cook wrote:
> "-L." > wrote:
>
>
>>Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>>
>>>Naw, my little darling is 26 years old. So I guess I should have
>>
>>said I
>>
>>>*used* cloth diapers.
>>
>>LOL..back then they didn't have dispos, did they?
>>
>
> My son is almost 39 and disposable diapers were available then. Don't
> think I could have managed the drive from North Carolina to Colorado
> when he was 6 months old without them.
>
>


My oldest is 35 and they had disposables when she was born.
I used cloth because my experience with friends' children was
that the clumsy disposables leaked. I can remember that they
didn't have tab fasteners and you had to have fingers of steel
to stick diaper pins through all those layers to fasten them.

I wonder what archaeologists in the far future will think when
they find our landfills overflowing with germy diapers....

gloria p

On 18 Apr 2005 22:18:00 -0700, -L. wrote:

>
> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> > Naw, my little darling is 26 years old. So I guess I should have
> said I *used* cloth diapers.
>
> LOL..back then they didn't have dispos, did they?
>
That was the beginning of the disposable trend, but I used cloth in
those days because it was more economical to use a diaper service.

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:40:36 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

> So true. I had bladder repair surgery when I was 41. I know what it's
> like to cough, sneeze, or bend over and have your shoes fill with urine.

I understand totally! I had a mysterious cough (for over 6 months) a
couple of years ago that did it to me.

A little birdie told me that "PhotoMan" > said:

>"Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
.. .
>
>> The fun part of shopping is when you meet someone and neither of you knows
>> which way to move to get out of the other's way. I learned the
>> Supermarket Shuffle years ago. Still don't have it right.
>
>It's called 'keep to the right', just like driving your car.

There are times when there IS no right. I can't explain it, but it's true.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:16:32 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

> Still don't have it right.

Stay to the right. That's the order of things in the US.

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:51:24 -0500, notbob wrote:

> On 2005-04-19, -L. > wrote:
>
> > Or the GD people in California who find it necessary to break open the
> > yams - why the F would you need to do that? I stood there and watched
> > one day while this older guy stood there and broke open literally 8 or
> > 9 yams.
>
> "GD people"? How many people? I've lived in CA for decades and never
> seen a single one. BTW, just how does one "break open" a yam? Cut
> maybe, smash possibly, but "break open"? One can't stick their
> fingers into a yam and break it open unless they're cooked or the
> person's one strong sumbitch. I suspect you saw something other than
> a yam or you're just "dumb", minus the "founded".
>

I live in California... and I've seen "yams" that were broken open,
but it's done by the vegetable guy. Mostly though, "broken" yams are
those that have been cut by a shovel or machinery and made it to
market anyway.

I break off pieces of ginger because I don't want to buy the whole
thing and that practice isn't frowned on where I live.

On Tue 19 Apr 2005 08:12:19p, Puester wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> The Cook wrote:
>> "-L." > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>>>
>>>>Naw, my little darling is 26 years old. So I guess I should have
>>>
>>>said I
>>>
>>>>*used* cloth diapers.
>>>
>>>LOL..back then they didn't have dispos, did they?
>>>
>>
>> My son is almost 39 and disposable diapers were available then. Don't
>> think I could have managed the drive from North Carolina to Colorado
>> when he was 6 months old without them.
>>
>>
>
>
> My oldest is 35 and they had disposables when she was born.
> I used cloth because my experience with friends' children was
> that the clumsy disposables leaked. I can remember that they
> didn't have tab fasteners and you had to have fingers of steel
> to stick diaper pins through all those layers to fasten them.
>
> I wonder what archaeologists in the far future will think when
> they find our landfills overflowing with germy diapers....

Probably that we're a ****y, shitty lot.

> gloria p

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

Dog3 > wrote:

> (Serene) typed this gem in
> :
>
> >
> > Wow. In my house, that would just mean no potatoes with dinner. I
> > have a policy of expecting at least one item to end up FUBAR with a
> > big supper, and we just make do.
> >
> > serene
>
> Oh puhleeze. You would probably yanked something else out of the freezer
> and whip up a delightful and delicious substitue. Methinks you are very
> skilled at coping with those types of situations

As I said, we make do. :-)

serene, who made purple-potato salad for the potluck tonight. Mmmm,
yum.
--
http://serenejournal.livejournal.com
http://www.jhuger.com

On 2005-04-20, Dog3 > wrote:

> LOL... One year as an X-mas gag, a friend gave me a 1' x 1' pin with a pic
> of all 3 of my dogs. Naturally the caption was 'Fleas Navidad'.

I still have some old xmas cards that show a cup of espresso with a
latte art xmas tree and the caption inside, "feliz lattedad".

nb

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

>
> >
> >It's called 'keep to the right', just like driving your car.
>
> There are times when there IS no right. I can't explain it, but it's true.
>

It's a female thing, right? :-)

sf wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:40:36 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>
> > So true. I had bladder repair surgery when I was 41. I know what
it's
> > like to cough, sneeze, or bend over and have your shoes fill with
urine.
>
> I understand totally! I had a mysterious cough (for over 6 months) a
> couple of years ago that did it to me.

Did they assess you for cough-variant asthma or mycoplasma? I
developed CVA - and coughed for 9 months before they found a treatment
that worked.

-L.

tuppy wrote:
> My entire Albertson's division is on the daily clean the cart
program. We
> also change our latex gloves in the deli, meat, fish, and bakery
departments
> with each customer.

Hummmm...the Albertson's in San Jose didn't seem to have daily-cleaned
carts....

>
> One my pet peeves are the customers who not only take product but the
> shopping carts, too. In some of our urban neighborhoods, we find our
carts
> miles from our stores, just strewn about. We often find them at
laundry
> operations and in alleys. These must be the folks who don't have
cars. The
> sad part is I don't often see these folks bringing the carts back
when they
> visit our stores to shop.
>
> R


Also, in San Jose, you'd see carts piled up in n'hoods. There was a
service that would go out and collect them. It just always looked so
trashy. The carts actualy had a number you could call to have them
picked up. gee - that's something *I* want to pay for, indirectly....

Some other stores had some electronic thing that wouldn't let you take
the cart from the lot. That's a great idea, IMO. The way I found out
is I parked on a side street and tried to take the cart to my cart -
and about broken my neck when the thing came to a halt at the edge of
the lot...

-L.

Puester wrote:
<snip>

>
> I wonder what archaeologists in the far future will think when
> they find our landfills overflowing with germy diapers....
>
> gloria p

What grosses me out are the Diaper Genie diaper things - little poop
sausages neatly packed in plastic casings, preserved forever in a
landfil... If the archeologists find those, we're in trouble.

-L.

I haven`t seen much food sampling or evidence of it during my shopping.
Once the lady in front of me in the checkout had a small child in her
cart who was teething/chewing/licking the pen that is attached to the
checkout lane for the customers to use. Blech. Glad I wasn`t gonna have
to use that pen.

A little birdie told me that Dave Smith > said:

>Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>
>> >It's called 'keep to the right', just like driving your car.
>>
>> There are times when there IS no right. I can't explain it, but it's true.
>
>It's a female thing, right? :-)

<BLEEP> you too! LOL!

The example I was thinking of when I wrote that was a recent encounter I
had with a lady right at the corner of the end of an aisle (I know there's
a much better way of writing that, but I'm a little foggy right now).
There really wasn't a "right" side in that instance.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Carol...do you take glyburide? and if you do, did it take some time
(like a week or two) before it kicked in? My doc increased mine and for
a couple of weeks I had higher than normal readings, them they dropped
into a really good range. Sharon

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>
> A little birdie told me that "Sheldon" > said:
>
> >> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Sarah wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I saw a pensioner (the guy must hae been 80) stuffing his face as
> >> > fast as he could at the grape display, it was not a pretty sight, he had no
> >> >shame even
> >
> >Perhaps he's diabetic and really needed those grapes, like now!
>
> Boy, do I understand that one! Low blood sugar makes you ravenous. It's
> also very frightening. When I had that problem from a medication they'd
> given me to lower my blood sugar when I was first diagnosed. Horrible!
>
> Carol
> --
> Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

A little birdie told me that "-L." > said:

>sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:40:36 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>>
>> > So true. I had bladder repair surgery when I was 41. I know what
>> > it's like to cough, sneeze, or bend over and have your shoes fill with
>> > urine.
>>
>> I understand totally! I had a mysterious cough (for over 6 months) a
>> couple of years ago that did it to me.
>
>Did they assess you for cough-variant asthma or mycoplasma? I
>developed CVA - and coughed for 9 months before they found a treatment
>that worked.

<Raising hand> Cough variant asthma. Mine lasted, non-stop, for almost
two years. To finally get it under control, they gave me Prednisone, which
in turn gave me diabetes. Now I use Advair. It's made a world of
difference, but too late to save me from the needle.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

A little birdie told me that biig > said:

> Carol...do you take glyburide? and if you do, did it take some time
>(like a week or two) before it kicked in? My doc increased mine and for
>a couple of weeks I had higher than normal readings, them they dropped
>into a really good range. Sharon

Yeah, it did help pretty quickly. But Glyburide is what produced the lows
that I experienced. Once I started taking just Metformin, the lows ended.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

On 20 Apr 2005 08:20:10 -0700, -L. wrote:

>
> sf wrote:
> >
> > I understand totally! I had a mysterious cough (for over 6 months) a
> > couple of years ago that did it to me.
>
> Did they assess you for cough-variant asthma or mycoplasma? I
> developed CVA - and coughed for 9 months before they found a treatment
> that worked.
>
Yes, they did... and didn't come up with anything (we even went the
allergy route). In the end, they gave me an inhaler to calm the cough
and told me I was "pre"asthmatic.

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:34:13 GMT, Dog3 wrote:

> sf > typed this gem in
> :
>
> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:16:32 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> >
> >> Still don't have it right.
> >
> > Stay to the right. That's the order of things in the US.
> >
> >
>
> Oh, and be on the cell phone while driving the cart
>
I thought being on a cell phone was the law - no matter what kind of
vehicle you drive!

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> <Raising hand> Cough variant asthma. Mine lasted, non-stop, for
almost
> two years. To finally get it under control, they gave me Prednisone,
which
> in turn gave me diabetes. Now I use Advair. It's made a world of
> difference, but too late to save me from the needle.
>
> Carol
> --
> Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

I was on pred for 9 months and it blew my metabolism - I went from
working out every other day to not at all because I was so sick, and
gained 40 lbs. Eventually, they put me on nebulized lidocaine which
cut the cycle. My CVA was secondary to a near-drowning incident.
Before that, I didn't have asthma at all. Now I just use Proventil HFA
when I need it.

-L.