Pet Peeves While Shopping

[LindellProStaf]

Thanks to cell phones I can find my wife when there.  I will be looking at something (usually meat) and she is gone.  

[RebelSS]

[nofishfisherman]

I wish everyone would adhere to the no defecateing while shopping rule. If they did my job at the Home Depot would have been much more tolerable.  

Honestly it was the womens bathroom that was the worst.  I'm not sure how women could do some of the stuff that I saw.  The worst/funniest experience was while I was cleaning the womens bathroom.  An little old lady walked in said to let her know when I'm finished because hardware stores always give her the runs.  I double timed it to get the mops and cleaning supplies out of her way but I guess I wasn't fast enough.  2 minutes later this frail little old lady ran by me in a blur yelling SORRY, she must have been going about 40 mph as she ran into the stall. I suspect she might have had been assisted by some sort of jet propulsion.  I high tailed it out of there as thats not a show I wanted to tune in for.

[reinhard1]

Including urinating in the sinks by guy's.  Long time ago when not everything was politicaly correct and things were easier to take care of I had a experience in the men's bathroom.  It was the meat cutters that took care of shoplifters and sometimes other things.  The manager in charge was not available [that's what senior employees are called when the store manager is gone] so they came to me because of a complaint of a guy taking a bath in the mens toilet.  Thought that would be pretty simple.  Tell the guy to leave.  So I tell the gal in charge that I need a witness in there with me just in case.  So she gets me one of the courtesy kids and in I go.

There was a guy in the center stall, naked and soaping up using the water from the toilet bowl.  I asked him what he was doing in there.  He said he was taking a dump [kinder word].  I said no, you are taking a bath in there and told him that this was not a public bath house.  He said he was taking a dump and to leave him alone.  I told him that I would give him one minute to put his cloths on and let him leave.  I waited, and waited [5 minutes].  I knew he stalling and still soaping himself.  I said Ok, 30 seconds and I'm coming in, folks have to use these stalls.  I watched him through the crack of the door as he sat down on the throne.  Times up and I kicked the door in hitting him in the face and breaking his glasses.  Grabbed him and his cloths, told him to put his pants on or I'll kick him out naked.  He put his pants on and tried to punch me.  So I put the guy in a headlock and dragged him out of the store.  Told the kid to grab the rest of his cloths which I threw at him.  Told him if he came back he will be going to jail.  That was back in the 80's.  I can imagine if that happen'd today.  I would probably be in jail and the store would get sued ect.  the good old days.  good luck.

[RebelSS]

defecateicus interuptus. Way to toss that wiener, rh!  

Edited January 26, 2016 by RebelSS

[Juneau4]

Rh1 if you did that the video of you with a guy in headlock, dragging him out of a restroom would definitely go viral.

[ThunderLund78]

WOW! That's a heck of a story RH!  I do think if stores put up a sign that said: "Meat cutters handle all shoplifters" there would be a lot less shoplifting

Living in a small town is great but it has its disadvantages when it comes to shopping.  Pretty hard NOT to run into someone you know at the store.  Sunday morning after church is the WORST!!!  I have no problem making small talk with a friend but I make it a point to do it at the end of the aisle with the carts off to the side.  But when half the town's in the store, you get "old Edna" and "Aunt Beatrice" yapping it up in the middle of the aisle - in just about every aisle! Once cart pointing north, one cart pointing south - dead-stopped in the middle talking about the next bridge club get-together.  Normally you just need one thing in that aisle and they're always parked right in-front of it.  All you can do is wait it out and smile as they finally part ways and slowly move on, hunched over their cart.

The older folks get a pass with me, but when the younger ones do it, we may trade a little paint on the carts.

[smurfy]

A peeve of mine is when da misses goes shopping without a list. The dump she can come home with  worst is the thibgs on the list she forgot.

[RebelSS]

And there's that cart with the right front wheel that goes *BUMP*BUMP*RATTLE*SPIN*   

[smurfy]

1 minute ago, RebelSS said:

And there's that cart with the right front wheel that goes *BUMP*BUMP*RATTLE*SPIN*   

Oh yea that one too! They must put that one next in line for me to get

[leechlake]

putting 20 sheets of drywall on a cart, wheeling the 1000 pounds to the checkout and attempting to avoid children or old people.  Checking it out and then reloading in truck and then unloading at home.  Great deal.

[Juneau4]

48 minutes ago, smurfy said:

 The dump she can come home with  worst is the thibgs on the list she forgot.

Especially if it's Non-Union made Beer instead of Union made or forgot it all together.

[smurfy]

5 minutes ago, Juneau4 said:

Especially if it's Non-Union made Beer instead of Union made or forgot it all together.

She knows better to bring non union beer home. No walky world shopping either.

[bobberineyes]

I'm with LL, I stay away unless I need a handful of things . This whole thread is the reason cub stores added a liquor store when one exits..

[delcecchi]

8 minutes ago, bobberineyes said:

I'm with LL, I stay away unless I need a handful of things . This whole thread is the reason cub stores added a liquor store when one exits..

If we lived in a rational state, the beer and liquor and wine would just be another aisle in the grocery store. 

[leechlake]

This is a great thread btw.

 Here's another one.  At the gas station when you get behind the guy that takes the lottery a little too serious.  Usually they are buying the scratch offs and know all the games names.  Clerk has no clue what he's looking for and the guy has a lottery billfold that he keeps all the tickets in.  Likes to chat up others in the line building up behind him, usually about lottery wins of yesteryear.  

[Dotch]

Along with that, getting behind the regular who after buying the scratch off tickets proceeds to scratch them off while your gas station burrito is getting cold. Haven't you suffered enough anticipating what's going to happen to your intestinal tract later?  

[Boar]

I love truck shopping, or ice castle shopping or motorcycle shopping. or 4 wheeler shopping. basically man things shopping.

[gunner55]

When they keep re-arranging the store every so often to make you go up & down every aisle to find what you want. My list is usually short so it's in & out in 10-15 minutes

[nofishfisherman]

3 hours ago, Grumpster said:

The purposeful design of grocery stores and convenience stores to make you walk through more isles or past certain products.  That's why the milk and eggs are all the way in the back of the store.  They hinge the refrigeration units, which are in the back, to send you in a certain direction to get back to the check out.  If it's  hinged on the left, they find that customers generally go left when they close the door.  I go right out of spite.       

Your mind would explode if you saw all the things that Target does to influence your shopping patterns and to keep you in the store buying product.  I did a short contract job for Target Corp in the main HQ and I saw some pretty sophisticated technology devoted solely to keeping people in the store and influencing their mood to buy.

[smurfy]

I am a go in get what I need and get da heck outta there..............so another peeve of mine is when I am with someone else they need to spend an hour wandering around just looking!!!!!!!

[JP Z]

On 1/26/2016 at 7:24 PM, RebelSS said:

"be nice so I just offer them my onion when possible. "  Whoops, meant my opinion. Not giving my onions away. 

I just figured you chucked an onion at them.....

[leechlake]

at the mall with one of my kids.  Fast paced goofy music that's too loud in the clothing stores.  It even makes me want to grab stuff off of the shelf and buy it.  I think it works.

There ain't no music at Fleet Farm!!!

[nofishfisherman]

The music in some of the mall stores has only one effect on me, it makes me walk in the opposite direction.  If I'm out shopping and the wife wants to go into any of the stores with loud obnoxious music or intense perfume smells I just sit outside and wait, I can't handle it.  

When I was a kid and shopping with my parents my dad did the same thing when my mom wanted to go into stores he didn't like. He'd take me and we'd go sit in what he called "The Dork Chairs".  These are the chairs that are either in the womens clothing stores or just outside the womens stores.  They are called "Dork Chairs" because guys go sit in them and look like dorks while the women do all the shopping.  I'm sure everyone of you has spent some time in one of these Dork Chairs over the years. 

[JP Z]

18 minutes ago, leechlake said:

at the mall with one of my kids.  Fast paced goofy music that's too loud in the clothing stores.  It even makes me want to grab stuff off of the shelf and buy it.  I think it works.

There ain't no music at Fleet Farm!!!

NOT TRUE.....it's country......I hate country music.