New tricks for an old dog.

SWWBO sent me out to get dinner last night. Due to our competition, this meant the Price Chopper salad bar for rabbit food vice two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickle-onions-on-a-sesame-seed-bun as it might have in years past.

Heh.

Anyway, 6PM is apparently rush hour at Price Chopper, but not sufficiently so that we open up idle registers.

No problem. I have two plastic boxes full of rabbit food, they have an express lane, "about 12 items or less". I guess the "about" is to stop the bean counters from starting fights or something. Not that it matters, in the event.

Here's my lesson. If you have a cart full of 50 or so items (I quit counting) and you don't want to stand in line at the other registers (where it is 5-6 carts deep) you just sail right up to the express register and inform the cashier that you have 3 different orders as you are shopping for your friends and so it's okay, just start ringing it up.

And then, about one third of the way through, you stop her and pay.

Again at roughly two thirds.

And at the end.

With the same credit card.

Each time.

And it appears there was little overlap in your friend's needs, either. Only of you needed bread, only one vegetables, only one cereal, etc.

I suppose it's *plausible*... but I throw the BS flag. If nothing else, the pugnacious, "I know you think I"m a butthead" looks and overall defensive posture were not conducive to a charitable reading of Sally Shopper's motives.

Talk about relying on everyone else's sense of politesse to ease your way through life.