"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> jmcquown wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
>
>>> I did feel chastened. She was nice about it but I got the message.
>>> Still paid my $16.
>
>> Sometimes people are trying to be helpful. Sounds more like an
>> interrogation on the OP's part.
>
> The story would have been different if she'd started going on how she
> wouldn't pay full price ever in her life blah blah. She
> was just nicely pointing out that I could get the exact-same-only-
> different towels for much less money. I wasn't knocking her.
>
>> I did once point out that frozen biscuits beat the heck out of
>> biscuits in a tube. The shoppers were free to take my suggestion or
>> not. They did head off to the freezer section We weren't already
>> in the checkout line at the time.
>
> That was nice of you. I hardly notice the other shoppers or what
> they are buying unless they are standing in my way or are being annoying
> in line. 99.9% of my shopping trips are completely
> uneventful. The way I like it.
>

I normally wouldn't have spoken up except they were getting rather loud,
arguing about which biscuits in a tube to buy. So I said, "Have you tried
the frozen biscuits? They're so much better!" And they really are better


Jill