It's been a while. Every so often I have to have a breather from Blogging...I dunno why that is but I just take a break, and come back stronger...so to speak. I don't know how many blogrolls I've been banished from. I don't know how many mobile phone address books I've been deleted from but here goes...I am sorry. Particularly to Mel, for she seems to take the absence of regular bloggers the hardest. Chell's just as bad as me...
Anyway, what would a first blog n ages be without some actual content. It's good to be back...
I was in Sainsburys the other day getting some food. Not much mind, just a few bits and bobs for tea, some new tooth brushes and a couple of bags of jellys (gummy candy to our transatlantic friends). I get to the checkout and the lady gives me a wide toothless smile and asks me, very kindly, if I would like help packing...
Now, I don't know what I look like when I go shopping but I'm pretty sure I come across as a fairly able bodied young man, with good strong arms and a twinkle in my eye. So what is it that makes this woman think I can't handle packing a few plastic bags of veggies and tooth brushes? I must come across so weak to her?
Anyway, my pride ensures I don't ask for help. So what does she do? What does she do to this poor, single white male? This weak man? This silly, weak man who she has assessed can't even pack his own bags? Well, she promptly concentrates on throwing my shopping through her scanner and into the packing area as quickly as she can until I am left with a pile up of groceries so high I can't reach the carrier bag dispenser.
I finally get it packed (as she sits idle - happy at the embarrassment she has caused me) and at the end of it all with an 'I-told-you-so' expression she happily takes my money and nectar card. Why I aughta!
So, what should I do next time? Do all check out people take pride in asking this and then, after the 'no' comes, go to extra effort to try and trap your hands under the potatos? I really am at a loss. Is online shopping the way forward? I have no answers.
But that is me for now... :)
7 comments:
Ok, take a tube of hemorrhoid cream with you next time, when she asks 'Do you need help packing?' say yes please, hand her the cream and say 'could you help me with this too please?'
Game. Set. Match. Leeder
It's a classic situation. Happened to Jen and me last night.
I mean, why would two people need help packing? because if you refuse they'll throw the bloody stuff at you that's why!
Only a hard to scan bag of limes saved us from the smug face.
Maybe next time you should say " To be honest, I don't think I need help, but please don't take that as an invitation to vent your Mcjob minimum wage frustrations out on me. Thanks." Could work?
Both VERY good ideas... but I must ask, what culinary delights is the Hoyle family cooking up to necessitate the purchase of limes?
my bet is they are for coronas....welcome back maffew
Thai Green curry, of course.
Three things…
First, online shopping IS the way forward! I’m surprised you didn’t know that.
Second, I take your lack of blogging just as hard as Mel, yet never get a mention. Why is that?
Thirdly, I’m prepared to offer you a fiver if, the next time somebody asks you, you say “yes” and then stand there and let them bag your groceries without lifting so much as a finger. A fiver!
p.s. I'm also in love with the hemorrhoid cream idea.
I believe - not to be on the checkout ladies side - that they are instructed to say that to everyone. I was once, unfortunately for me, in a tesco queue with a trainee checkout person and the lady training her said 'always ask if they need help packing - it's a must'!!!
Gosh I sound like such an anorak!!!
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