At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in the
kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.

So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the bag
and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug out
the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!

So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two pork
tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in the
cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
Robin Hood of me.

Who goofed?

Andy

Andy wrote:
> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart,
> in the kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it
> and I didn't notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought
> I bought some pork tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
> Who goofed?
>
I know nothing about TJ's since there isn't one within 100 miles of me. I
do know my regular grocery store has a sign as you approach each check-out
that says something like "please remove items from under the cart [where
people often place cases of soda, water, etc.] and the child seat and place
on the conveyer belt". So, I'd say if you didn't do that, it's not the
cashier's place to give your cart the once-over. At least you weren't
charged for an item you didn't actually purchase

Jill

On Oct 2, 2:06?pm, jmcquown wrote:

> I know nothing about TJ's since there isn't one within
> 100 miles of me. I do know my regular grocery store
> has a sign as you approach each check-out that says
> something like "please remove items from under the
> cart [where people often place cases of soda, water,
> etc.] and the child seat and place on the conveyer belt".
> So, I'd say if you didn't do that, it's not the cashier's place
> to give your cart the once-over. At least you weren't
> charged for an item you didn't actually purchase

None of the TJ's I've shopped (about a dozen) have conveyors. The
clerk unloads your cart.

KevinS wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2:06?pm, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I know nothing about TJ's since there isn't one within
>> 100 miles of me. I do know my regular grocery store
>> has a sign as you approach each check-out that says
>> something like "please remove items from under the
>> cart [where people often place cases of soda, water,
>> etc.] and the child seat and place on the conveyer belt".
>> So, I'd say if you didn't do that, it's not the cashier's place
>> to give your cart the once-over. At least you weren't
>> charged for an item you didn't actually purchase
>
> None of the TJ's I've shopped (about a dozen) have conveyors. The
> clerk unloads your cart.

I did say I know nothing about TJ's. I gather the closest one to me is
somewhere in Missouri.

Jill

In article >, Andy <q> wrote:

> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
> with two pork tenderloins in it.

What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?

Steve

jmcquown said...

> KevinS wrote:
>> On Oct 2, 2:06?pm, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> I know nothing about TJ's since there isn't one within
>>> 100 miles of me. I do know my regular grocery store
>>> has a sign as you approach each check-out that says
>>> something like "please remove items from under the
>>> cart [where people often place cases of soda, water,
>>> etc.] and the child seat and place on the conveyer belt".
>>> So, I'd say if you didn't do that, it's not the cashier's place
>>> to give your cart the once-over. At least you weren't
>>> charged for an item you didn't actually purchase
>>
>> None of the TJ's I've shopped (about a dozen) have conveyors. The
>> clerk unloads your cart.
>
> I did say I know nothing about TJ's. I gather the closest one to me is
> somewhere in Missouri.
>
> Jill


I guess Trader Joe's maximizes shopping space by the "no conveyor"
checkouts. I don't think I could be a cashier there, having to bend down to
unload carts all day! Bending and lifting and turning is just the perfect
way to throw out your back. I'm going to ask a cashier there "How's your
back?" out of curiosity.

Andy

Steve Pope > wrote in message
...
> In article >, Andy <q>
> wrote:
>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a
>> shopping cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>
> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"?
> Did you not return the cart to the cart area in front of
> the store?

I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's
I current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective
lots so I don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...

The Ranger

Steve Pope said...

> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>
>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>
> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>
> Steve


They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a convenience to
the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the storefront
every so often.

Andy

Andy wrote on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:43:35 -0500:

??>> In article >, Andy <q>
??>> wrote:
??>>
??>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping
??>>> cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
??>>
??>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did
??>> you not return the cart to the cart area in front of the
??>> store?
??>>
??>> Steve

A> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as
A> a convenience to the customers. An attendant gathers them up
A> and walks them to the storefront every so often.

But that does not stop a lot of people leaving the cart where
their car was parked :-(

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

James Silverton said...

> Andy wrote on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:43:35 -0500:
>
> ??>> In article >, Andy <q>
> ??>> wrote:
> ??>>
> ??>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping
> ??>>> cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
> ??>>
> ??>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did
> ??>> you not return the cart to the cart area in front of the
> ??>> store?
> ??>>
> ??>> Steve
>
> A> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as
> A> a convenience to the customers. An attendant gathers them up
> A> and walks them to the storefront every so often.
>
> But that does not stop a lot of people leaving the cart where
> their car was parked :-(


James,

This is true.

For some folks, just getting the cart to the car can be victory enough.

There was a cart left in front of my car. As I was getting into the car an
elderly couple walking by stopped me and asked "Is that your cane?" "No," I
replied. Someone had left it hanging on the cart.

They couldn't have gotten far. --JUST KIDDING--

Andy
Cane user once, so far.

The Ranger wrote:
>
> Steve Pope > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >, Andy <q>
> > wrote:
> >> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a
> >> shopping cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
> >>
> > What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"?
> > Did you not return the cart to the cart area in front of
> > the store?

A guy that vandalizes bread would do that?

> I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's
> I current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective
> lots so I don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...

The way I look at it, the supermarket expects carts
to be left "somewhere in the parking lot". I always
move it to the nearest concrete island or cart
collection structure so that it's not going to roll
and it's not blocking a parking space. But my part
of the social contract between supermarket and
customer ends there.

If I were to roll it all the way back to the store,
I'd be depriving the livelihood of the guys hired
by the store to have collecting carts as part of
their job responsibility.

The Ranger wrote:
> Steve Pope > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >, Andy <q>
>> wrote:
>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a
>>> shopping cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"?
>> Did you not return the cart to the cart area in front of
>> the store?
>
> I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's
> I current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective
> lots so I don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...
>
> The Ranger

I got so ticked yesterday when I stopped at Target to buy some books. One
of the cart corrals was just opposite where I parked and a few steps up.
Yet some a**hole left their cart in the aisle and it had rolled into the
back of my car. Fortunately it hit the bumper, but still... grrrr. How
friggin lazy can you get?

jmcquown > wrote in message
...
[snip bump-goes-the-stray-shopping-cart]
> How friggin lazy can you get?

Visit a Costco some time; it'd amaze you just how friggin lazy
someone can get...

The Ranger

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> Steve Pope said...
>
>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>
>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>
>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
>> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>>
>> Steve
>
>
> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a convenience
> to
> the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
> storefront
> every so often.
>

That's what it's like on my planet too!

cybercat said...

>
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> Steve Pope said...
>>
>>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>>>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
>>> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a
convenience
>> to
>> the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
>> storefront
>> every so often.
>>
>
> That's what it's like on my planet too!


<VBG>

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in the
> kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
> notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
> tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the bag
> and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug out
> the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>
> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two pork
> tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in the
> cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
> Robin Hood of me.
>
> Who goofed?
>
> Andy

Well, at my TJ's they empty the cart as they ring it up, so in that case, it would be
them, I suppose. At the average grocery store, I'd blame me.

kimberly

--
http://one.revver.com/watch/324733/flv/affiliate/99865
"I think that's my bathing suit. Is that one of my bathing suits? That is totally my
bathing suit"

The Ranger said...

> jmcquown > wrote in message
> ...
> [snip bump-goes-the-stray-shopping-cart]
>> How friggin lazy can you get?
>
> Visit a Costco some time; it'd amaze you just how friggin lazy
> someone can get...
>
> The Ranger


There's one ACME I shop at where the storefront carts are lined up but
they're on a few degrees downhill incline so they actually lock up together
somehow and you can't pull one out. I had to ask the shopping cart
attendant how to separate a cart. A quick 5 seconds later I was master of
yet another universe!

Sure beats looking stupid! What, with superhuman strength and getting
defeated by a measly shopping cart?!! DOES NOT impress the ladies!!!

Andy

Nexis said...

> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart,
>> in the kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it
>> and I didn't notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I
>> bought some pork tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>>
>> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of
>> the bag and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged?
>> So, I dug out the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>>
>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two
>> pork tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found
>> it in the cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car?
>> How unknowingly Robin Hood of me.
>>
>> Who goofed?
>>
>> Andy
>
> Well, at my TJ's they empty the cart as they ring it up, so in that
> case, it would be them, I suppose. At the average grocery store, I'd
> blame me.
>
> kimberly


kimberly,

Thanks. I thought so too!

Best,

Andy

On Oct 2, 3:56?pm, Andy <q> wrote:
> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in the
> kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
> notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
> tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the bag
> and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug out
> the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>
> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two pork
> tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in the
> cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
> Robin Hood of me.
>
> Who goofed?
>
> Andy

I used to work as a grocery checker at Kroger back when I was in
college and it was up to the checker to make sure everything was out
of the cart. In fact, the first thing we were told we had to ring up
was the stuff on the bottom of the bascart.

On Oct 2, 2:28?pm, jmcquown wrote:


> I did say I know nothing about TJ's.

I know. My comment is from the perspective of whether the
cart unloading procedure bears on who is more at fault
for the missing tenderloins.

>I gather the closest one to me is somewhere in Missouri.

Maybe someday.

I'm not a TJ's worshiper, by the way, even though I shop
there several days per week. I just think it's useful and
convenient. They offer some interesting products and
do a pretty good job of holding down prices.

In article >, Andy <q> wrote:

> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in the
> kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
> notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
> tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the bag
> and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug out
> the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>
> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two pork
> tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in the
> cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
> Robin Hood of me.
>
> Who goofed?
>
> Andy

You may never have put it in the cart.

Go back and ask in the morning...
--
Peace, Om

Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein

Omelet said...

> You may never have put it in the cart.
>
> Go back and ask in the morning...


Heh heh heh heh heh.

Not a chance! I know a good pair of pork tenderloins when I see the price is
right.

I spanked those puppies in the cart. I can hear the thud as clear as if it
was yesterday.

Guess again.

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in
> the
> kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
> notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
> tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the
> bag
> and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug
> out
> the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>
> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two
> pork
> tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in
> the
> cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
> Robin Hood of me.
>
> Who goofed?

Hard to say. Did you unload the cart onto the counter? Or did they just
ring stuff up directly from the cart? If they did, then it might be their
fault. But there's also the possibility that you maybe switched carts with
another shopper, or that the meat slipped from the seat onto the floor
somewhere. Or the possibility that the customer in front of you or behind
you was charged for them and took them home.

In article >, Andy <q> wrote:

> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in the
> kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
> notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
> tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the bag
> and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug out
> the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>
> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two pork
> tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in the
> cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
> Robin Hood of me.
>
> Who goofed?

Me! Its my fault! I admit it. The guilt is killing me.

I saw that package of pork tenderloins in your cart and I just had to
have it. The other packages were just not as good. I quietly moved the
pork tenderloin package from your cart to mine just as you reached for
the final item you bought before you went to pay!

Fret not though; dinner was great and that pork is in my belly!

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> Steve Pope said...
>
>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>
>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>
>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
>> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>>
>> Steve
>
>
> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a convenience
> to
> the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
> storefront
> every so often.
>
> Andy

Andy, is this word, as you used it, "every" a colloquism (sp?) in your
region?

I've heard so many say "every," in this context, as well as "ever," so I
don't know which is a colloquism and which is not, at this point.

It's almost like the word, "nevertheless."


Dee Dee

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...

>
> For some folks, just getting the cart to the car can be victory enough.
>
> There was a cart left in front of my car. As I was getting into the car an
> elderly couple walking by stopped me and asked "Is that your cane?" "No,"
> I
> replied. Someone had left it hanging on the cart.
>
> They couldn't have gotten far. --JUST KIDDING--
>
> Andy
> Cane user once, so far.

--


However, it might have been one of the the eldery couple's cane and they
forgot that it was their's.
JUST KIDDING, TOO!
;-)

Dee Dee
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort."

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...

> James,
>
> This is true.
>
> For some folks, just getting the cart to the car can be victory enough.
>
> There was a cart left in front of my car. As I was getting into the car an
> elderly couple walking by stopped me and asked "Is that your cane?" "No,"
> I
> replied. Someone had left it hanging on the cart.
>
> They couldn't have gotten far. --JUST KIDDING--
>
> Andy
> Cane user once, so far.

Yesterday there was a gallon of milk in the ice cream aisle of our local
Albertson's. I pointed it out to my daughter. As we were leaving the aisle
and had to swerve around it, some man said really snippily, "Did you forget
something?", and gave us a dirty look. It should have been obvious that it
wasn't mine since I had a little carton of milk in my cart. Daughter got
all bent out of shape at his attitude. Bugged her eyes out at him and just
stared.

Stan Horwitz said...

> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>
>> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart,
>> in the kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it
>> and I didn't notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I
>> bought some pork tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>>
>> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of
>> the bag and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged?
>> So, I dug out the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>>
>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two
>> pork tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found
>> it in the cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car?
>> How unknowingly Robin Hood of me.
>>
>> Who goofed?
>
> Me! Its my fault! I admit it. The guilt is killing me.
>
> I saw that package of pork tenderloins in your cart and I just had to
> have it. The other packages were just not as good. I quietly moved the
> pork tenderloin package from your cart to mine just as you reached for
> the final item you bought before you went to pay!
>
> Fret not though; dinner was great and that pork is in my belly!


Stan,

I owe ya breakfast, someday. OR lunch.

Thanks!

Andy

> wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> I used to work as a grocery checker at Kroger back when I was in
> college and it was up to the checker to make sure everything was out
> of the cart. In fact, the first thing we were told we had to ring up
> was the stuff on the bottom of the bascart.

When I lived in the Houston area, at every Kroger store (and many of the
other chains) I shopped at, the cashiers took all of the merchandise out of
the carts and rang 'em up. Where I live now (Baltimore), the customers load
all of the grocery items onto the conveyor belts themselves (at every
supermarket I've been).

Mary

Dee Dee said...

>
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> Steve Pope said...
>>
>>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>>>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
>>> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a
convenience
>> to
>> the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
>> storefront
>> every so often.
>>
>> Andy
>
> Andy, is this word, as you used it, "every" a colloquism (sp?) in your
> region?
>
> I've heard so many say "every," in this context, as well as "ever," so I
> don't know which is a colloquism and which is not, at this point.
>
> It's almost like the word, "nevertheless."
>
>
> Dee Dee


Dee Dee,

Sorry, but I've beem in the middle of fighting off a "from every
direction" anti-Andy assault all day long and now you ask about phraseology
at a time like this?

<VBG>

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>
> I guess Trader Joe's maximizes shopping space by the "no conveyor"
> checkouts. I don't think I could be a cashier there, having to bend down
> to
> unload carts all day! Bending and lifting and turning is just the perfect
> way to throw out your back. I'm going to ask a cashier there "How's your
> back?" out of curiosity.
>
> Andy


I've not seen many ole timers working there. Maybe they're already getting
workers' comp?

One thing about TJ's is that I can have a basket load of items and get thru
the line faster than anyplace I've ever shopped, and usually not have to
look at a sullen face while they're checking, and they will have a little
time for a chit-chat.
--
Dee Dee
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort."

"The Ranger" > wrote in message
...
> Steve Pope > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a
>>> shopping cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"?
>> Did you not return the cart to the cart area in front of
>> the store?
>
> I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's I
> current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective lots so I
> don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...
>
> The Ranger
>

Andy wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I've beem in the middle of fighting off a "from every
> direction" anti-Andy assault all day long and now you ask about
> phraseology at a time like this?

Self-inflicted, I would say.
And well-deserved, unfortunately.

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> I got so ticked yesterday when I stopped at Target to buy some books. One
> of the cart corrals was just opposite where I parked and a few steps up.
> Yet some a**hole left their cart in the aisle and it had rolled into the
> back of my car. Fortunately it hit the bumper, but still... grrrr. How
> friggin lazy can you get?
>

I've seen this happen.
We make it a practice to always take our carts back to the area where they
belong, no matter where that is. We always make sure that our cart won't
roll before we start unpacking it. It's a pet peeve of mine to see carts
sitting all around the lots. Many stores hire employees to pick them up.
The stores will request you please return them because it will make your
groceries cost more -- it doesn't matter, people still leave them in the
parking lot.

Although if I knew it were a mom who had to leave her children alone to put
it back, I would say leave it anywhere! Maybe I'll just take a different
viewpoint when I see those carts, and just pretend that all of them belonged
to watchful mums.

Dee Dee

"The Ranger" > wrote in message
...
> jmcquown > wrote in message
> ...
> [snip bump-goes-the-stray-shopping-cart]
>> How friggin lazy can you get?
>
> Visit a Costco some time; it'd amaze you just how friggin lazy someone can
> get...
>
> The Ranger
And Costco has almost constant pickup of these carts left by these lazy
slobs, but the lots are still full.
We don't have a "nice" car, but I see people there with nice cars parking
clear at the end of the lot, to evade the car door dings, as well as letting
a cart roll down onto it. You don't want to park at the bottom of the
slope!

Actually after standing, stopping, shopping, for so long in the store, I
don't mind hopping-to-it with the cart to the stall, gets me going.


Dee Dee

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
DOES NOT impress the ladies!!!
>
> Andy

Andy, are you a ladies' man?

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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort."

Mark Thorson said...

> Andy wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, but I've beem in the middle of fighting off a "from every
>> direction" anti-Andy assault all day long and now you ask about
>> phraseology at a time like this?
>
> Self-inflicted, I would say.
> And well-deserved, unfortunately.


Keep up with your obscure food apparatus and the satisfaction it brings you.

Andy

Dee Dee said...

>> I got so ticked yesterday when I stopped at Target


I was at Target today and I bought an embroidered t-shirt that says...

"I got out of bed for this?"

Andy

Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart,
>> in the kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it
>> and I didn't notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought
>> I bought some pork tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>>
>> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of
>> the bag and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I
>> charged? So, I dug out the receipt from the trash and no pork
>> tenderloins!
>>
>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with
>> two pork tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper
>> found it in the cart before entering the store and tossed it in their
>> car? How unknowingly Robin Hood of me.
>>
>> Who goofed?
>
> But there's also the possibility that you maybe switched carts with
> another shopper, or that the meat slipped from the seat onto the floor
> somewhere.

The cart switch scenario might also be used to justify that package of
frozen White Castle sliders in his freezer, too, that he claims doesn't
remember buying.


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Dee Dee wrote:
>
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> Steve Pope said...
>>
>>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>>>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
>>> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a convenience
>> to
>> the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
>> storefront
>> every so often.
>>
>> Andy
>
> Andy, is this word, as you used it, "every" a colloquism (sp?) in your
> region?
>
> I've heard so many say "every," in this context, as well as "ever," so I
> don't know which is a colloquism and which is not, at this point.

I was raised in the upper Midwest of the US. We used "every so often".
I've lived in Southern California US for 26 years. It's "every so
often"
here.

To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.

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