I definitely need to go grocery shopping, because I need to restock my veggie selection at home. I'm really good at making excuses not to, though.
For instance: The parking lot. It's insane. I certainly don't mind parking in the north 40, in fact I prefer it. A little walk is really nice sometimes. However while I'm innocently walking down the lot towards the building, there is inevitably some dumb girl backing out her parking space trying to put mascara on, talk on the phone, change clothes, and balance her checkbook all at the same time. I can appreciate multi-tasking, but not when it's at the cost of my legs, kthxbai. And that's only if you've already survived the people driving the wrong way down the one-way aisles to begin with. What's wrong with those people, did they not learn their arrows in school or something?
Then there's the creepy guy. It seems every time I go to the neighborhood grocery store, there's always some guy twice my age that likes to follow me around like Crest (the grocery store) is some kind of dating service. I promise I'm not just being paranoid about this one- one time I picked up a 24 pack of beer, and this old greasy-faced pock-marked looking guy and his equally creepy friend with a lazy eye kept grinning at me with the beer, and BOTH tried to give me their phone numbers *more than once.* By the time I hit the dairy aisle, they were looking a little disgruntled...
If it's not creepy guys, it's screaming babies. Not just the little unhappy sniffly ones, or even the whining kids that don't get their favorite over-sugared cereal (hey, everyone is a little unhappy sometimes...), I mean the screaming at the top of their lungs, throwing things, flames coming out of their ears kind of temper tantrum throwing brats, and the mothers that just won't spank or pinch them into shutting up. I know if I had ever acted like that in public, (or at home, for that matter) my mother would have lit my butt up where I couldn't sit down for a week. The right to let your kids act like that ends where my grocery shopping begins.
Next: the coupon lady. It never fails. Once you've run the gauntlet of the parking lot of doom and horny/creepy guys and screaming babies, you always end up in line behind the coupon lady wearing a mu mu. Not that coupons are bad, but we as a society need to band together and enforce some kind of legal limit to these things! Mostly because I with all my infinite luck usually get stuck behind the woman with some ridonkulous number of coupons that doesn't even know which ones she wants to use. Even the cashier is rolling her eyes by the time the old coupon bitty moves along. Sheesh. I only have 5 items totaling less than $20, please let me leave, you dingy old bat! I'll even pay you the 1/20 of a cent that coupon is worth to get out of the way!
Even with this rant, I still need to go buy onions and potatoes for dinner tonight. Wish me luck.
Is there anything about grocery shopping that bugs you?
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Are you fucking insane??? The baby part I totally agree, kids need to have a sock shoved down there throats and drowned but that's not there fault it is there pathetic parents so let's drown them first.
But you must be insane because the grocery store is one of the best pick up joints on the planet so everything else is somewhat tolerable. And I am so fucking good after I talk to chicks they chase my sexy as fuck ass down. BADABAM!!!
I actually love going to the grocery store and walking around looking at all the delicious food. Then again, my fiance and I only go to Smith's at like midnight or later so we don't usually encounter these problems. The couple of times we have gone during the day though... I see your point.
@ChevalierSeingal@datingish - LOL I had some 30 year-old dude follow me out to my car in the Wal-Mart parking lot and insist we be "best friends." He had man boobs and wouldn't leave me alone for a whole 30 minutes.
Do men not know what NO means?
But ya, grocery stores. I need to go in an hour too ugh. Last time I went some crazy bitch backed into my car. In the center lane, I watched her drive by and started pulling out, while looking behind me. =] Anyway, some dude closer to the front starts pulling out, so she throws it in reverse and zooms back into me. Lol. Her car got fucked, mine didn't. Needless to say I made her realize she needs to actually look in the direction of which she's driving at all times.
My supermarket is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I don't know what you're referring to because 2am grocery shopping is THE BEST.
Seriously the best!
You get all the new stuff that just went on sale before ANYBODY has touched it. All the Chef Boyardee you want, and in the flavors you want too. No more digging in the back looking for Spaghetti and Meatballs, cause this shelf is packed!
Zero lines, none at all. There is one register open, with one cashier, and no one is waiting. All the neighborhood bums have left to sleep and they're not bothering you about bagging your groceries.
Freedom to walk as damn slow as you'd like and to stroll up and down every aisle.
It's the best kind of food shopping. It's as if the entire market is catering to just you.
Since Tesco and Carrefour entering into my country, I do increase my shopping days.. spending more... sad.
You think shopping at a grocery store sucks? TRY WORKING THERE. I worked there for close to two years and yet me tell ya', I got more horror stories than you can imagine.. Getting stuck behind coupon people sucks, but what sucks even more is trying to ring them up! Having them yell at you because they brought a target coupon to shop rite, and this is somehow your fault.. Ugh.I once had a guy call my manager because I short changed him by TWO CENTS. I even gave him the two cents out of my pocket, but that wasn't good enough for him because it was "the principle of that matter".
Oh, and those creepy guys, I had plenty of them too..my dad used to call them my "fan club" and I swear to God, I saw one of them on America's Most Wanted.
@Athlyx@xanga - Are you serious??? Wow I am glad I don't live in the city anymore.
I HATE HATE HATE the grocery store!!!
People are worse at driving their carts than they are their cars! I think we should have a cart traffic system.... I'd buy food more often.
I walk on the lines in the parking lot. I'm as much a terror to the cars as the cars are too me.
I take a brother/friend to combat the creepy guys.
I smile sympathetically to the mother of the brat. She hates it as much as I do, but she doesn't know what to do about it (I could tell her).
Annnddd. I go through the self-checkout/quick line.
Just dont go during rush hour.
My bf and I do that, mainly because we're night shifters, and it's the most convinent time to go grocery shopping, as we sleep during the day. :)
What I hate about grocery shopping?
Poor customer service.
Shits me to tears when I get served by some cranky bitch at the check out, who obviously can't be fucked answering my questions, let alone say hello. We have some rude bitches working at our local store. Not all of them. But a majority. I'd get them sacked if I could, because we're not talking one time offenders. They consistently have frowns on their faces. AGFDGJKSHNFK.
Hahahaha, I go down the wrong arrows all the time and I know it. I've learned to make the creepy guys feel like shit and the screaming babies just make me laugh. Also, I favor using the self- checkout almost always, <3 I love the grocery store!
@phan__tom@xanga - The interesting thing about that is my parents used to own some grocery stores, and my brother and I, of course, were forced to work there. Let me tell ya... I feel the pain from both sides of the register.
I am pretty grim-faced when I run my errands alone. I put on my workplace "no BS face" and get whatever it is done. I usually glare down any creepers before they talk to me, smile at the rest and continue to duck out of everyone's way until I have what I need and get out of the store as efficiently as possible.
Its much easier when my husband is home with me, he loves joining me on my errands, I am able to be my naturally playful self and he discourages all the creeps from talking to me! I mean who wants to cross a guy who's 6'3" and in great shape? Hehe...my husband is such a badass...
@BlackJackBebe@xanga - So what are they supposed to do? Stand around making minimum wage with a flippin permanent grin frozen on their faces for 4-8 hours?Â
I HATE when people throw around the word "bitch" and constantly complain about customer service people, etc. If the girl fucked up her cashier work, then you could complain, but about stupid shit like not smiling?! fuck you.
@StephanieDFung - HAHAHAH same!! i loveeee shopping at ralphs at 1AM because there's fewer lines and more parking spaces and less people! of course you often get the shoplifters around that time too... I saw a pair of guys walk out with some boxes of eggs..
@Sarah - Lol. Ok, how about this. I choose to spend my money at their grocery store, is it too much to ask for a little customer service? I'm not asking them to walk around with a smile on their faces 24/7, but actually acknowledging a paying customer would be greatly appreciated. Half the time a question is met with a grunt as a response, or just stared at like you're some kind of freak. And sure, I have the option of going else where, but as I mentioned before, I'm a night shifter & it's unfortunately the only one open around the clock here. You have to understand that in my first comment I wasn't generalising; I was talking about MY LOCAL STORE. So, before you go around telling people to go fuck themselves, don't assume you know the facts.
lmfao i dont like grocery shopping period
im too lazy xD
Kids ruin the shopping experience. They actually ruin everything. Every place that has kids is a place I want to escape.
The screaming babies is annoying, but understandable. How would you feel if you were trapped in a little seat of a cart for an hour or more? It wouldn't be good.
Oh my god I have a cardiac arrest every time I'm in a grocery store. The parking lots are just the start of it. Once you get inside it seems that people are like....they're completely in their own world. They walk around in a daze and usually walk right in front of you when you're walking down the aisle. Then they STOP in front of you and you trip over them. If they have a cart with them all hope is lost. You're done. You're walking down an aisle for 9 hours. Grocery Stores are the main reason why I think senior citizens should be given a battery of tests including hand eye coordination, speed and agility and anything else you can think of, every time they leave the house and if they fail ANY of them the door locks and they can't leave the house. Even typing about it here is giving me that feeling of anxiety in my chest....
i usually go grocery shopping very late at night (at the 24-hour supermarket) to avoid such circumstances and hordes of people, lines, etc. it is much more peaceful. every time i go during the day i regret it.
@BlackJackBebe@xanga - if you had to deal with the amount of shit they had to from the public for the lowest wage possible for 8 hours straight with barely a break...well, you wouldn't be all smiles and niceness either.
Today I was trying to get out of the supermarket's parking lot, so I was making my way out of the parking space and into the main lane that heads out into the street, the lane that's also in front of the supermarket. However, whenever I would reach 5 mph, someone would either come out of the supermarket, and leisurely make their way into the parking lot or vice versa so I had to brake and gas and brake and gas and brake and gas for them. so I basically had to inch my way out of the parking lot ._.'