Gregory wrote on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:03:16 -0600:

> On Mar 25, 9:28 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>> Christopher Helms wrote:
>>
> >> My mom was like that. Personally, when I'm in the checkout
> >> line the crazy, mumbling, jabbering flake is always
> >> directly in front of me, talking about everything and
> >> nothing to the clerk, writing a check for Tic Tacs or
> >> paying for a case of beer with a coffee can full of change.
> >> Last night I waited for some dumb bitch to run out of gab
> >> for over five minutes as my bottle of Coke Zero got warm. I
> >> have a freakish talent for getting behind these assholes.
> >> It never happens less than three time a week to me.
>>
>> That's what happens when you go shopping at 2 AM.

> 2AM, 7:25PM, midmorning, lunch, whatever. It doesn't seem to
> matter. It's almost like they're there waiting for me.
> ------------------

> GM replies:

> It's this kind of nonsense that is making me seriously
> consider doing most of my grocery shopping with Peapod, the
> online grocery delivery service. Between nutty customers,
> surly and lazy store staff, out-of-stock items, and dragging
> the stuff home, I've had just about enough. Maybe I'm getting
> old and crotchety but who needs it...I shop for most
> everything else on the internet and for the most part I am
> heartily sick and tired of the "retail experience".

They also always seem to have signatures involving about three long
words and want to write their autobiographies in the check register.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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