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[rolanni]

So, I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and picked up a few things, a good bit of it cold, a few frozen items. When I got to the checkout line, I placed two bags -- one an insulated cold bag and one a thin, made-with-recycled-soda-bottles or something bag on the counter ahead of my order. The bagger picked up both bags, considered them earnestly, then proceeded to pack all the cold stuff in to the non-insulated bag.

Into the insulated bag went the bread.

*sigh*

However! I now have nineteen days off from the day-job in a row, which I'm treating for book-writing purposes as I Don't Have To Go Back EVER. It's not that the perfessers are a bad bunch, but they are a bunch and they do din in the head long after the day is done. Which speaks more to how I process people than anything particularly awful in daily interactions, but still... I can hear myself think.

How. . .pleasant.

Comments

[elbales]

Did you make the person repack the bag? The mood I've been in the last few days, I'd have made him repack it. (Detoxing off antidepressants makes E a snarling beast.)

As for time off: Huzzah! School's out for me, too, but I'm still busy and tired, doing all those things I didn't have time to do during the school year.

[(Anonymous)]

I've always been impressed by baggers' willingness to carefully put all of the fragile items, like eggs and fresh produce, into the bottom of a bag...

...which they then fill with canned goods.

I'm to the point where I often use the self-checkout aisles so that I can pack my bags myself.

Bagging Groceries

[trekgirlmo.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I prefer to bag my own groceries! Whatever happened to the days of teaching customer service, counting change and packing groceries?

Enjoy your time off, you deserve it!

Maureen

baggers

[tessie614.livejournal.com]

What irrates me most at the check-out line is the "idjet" who grabs a fresh loaf of bread in the middle and holds it "firmly". Squish goes the bread. I've been known to send them back for another loaf after teaching them how to handle it correctly and carefully.

GENTLY

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

I have had that same result at checkout recently. Grr.

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

In trying to figure this out, all I can come up with is "hard things together in one bag, soft thing in soft bag so it doesn't get crushed."

I'll note that many of the local Safeways hire the developmentally disabled as baggers and while it may be a bit painstaking at times, they never put the bread on the bottom, and indeed generally bag as one would wish it done!

I wonder if there is anywhere left with blue ribbon trad checkouts? I remember Berkeley Bowl in the golden days of yore (1980s) when they would 10 key the prices weigh and bag the mostly produce and bulk items about as fast as a reasonably athletic two handed person could move all the items 3-4 feet. And the bags would be neat and properly filled.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Yay for 19 days of freedom!

[mardott.livejournal.com]

"I expect I don't approach it firmly enough and it senses my fear."

This is me.

When I worked for the USGS, we had a sign on the mass spectrometer with a long explanation of how the user's emotional state affected the machine. It was hilarious. But it was also true!

[hapaxnym.livejournal.com]

Huh. All the grocery clerks I have encountered here has amazing bagging-fu. Indeed, I have often complimented them on their efficiency and care -- I do so love to see competence, in whatever form it chooses to exhibit itself.

That being said, hurrah for the freedom to concentrate on the Important Stuff -- cats and cooking. And mebbe a little writing on the couch.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm wondering how many cats you share the house with.
C.