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Old 09-11-2006, 11:35 AM   #12
Jimbo
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: S. Yarmouth, MA
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Doesn't matter to me if the cashier and or bagger don't speak to me as long as they are efficient in their work, but the second anything I am purchasing is abused I will speak up. If it's the bagger, say loud enough for the people nearby and hopefully a manager to hear, something to the effect that I plan on eating it in one piece and to "step away from my food, I will bag it myself." Not too long ago, my head almost blew off like Milton the Monster when they needed a price check for ice cream I had bought. The kid going to check walks like there's no urgency in his mission, AND, is tossing the half gallon up in the air and catching itas he goes. I said to the cashier, "Oh that's not good, that's not good at all." Well he stands there frozen like a deer in the headlights. The other kid returns, mumbles the price and throws the ice cream into a bag like he's doing a fall away jumpshot. My eyes rolled back in my head for a second, but I composed and said, "Look grociery bag, here's what you're going to do. You're going to hustle your butt back to the ice cream section and find me this exact brand that's not dented, sticky or leaking and you're going to come back and hand it to me or we'll be chatting to your manager about why you feel the need to abuse other people's food. Don't play catch with it, don't hurt it, just get it and come back quickly, because the rest of the people on this line want to see what a conscientious and gentle bagger you are. The kid has actually been pretty good since, I think he just needed a wakeup call.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. ~Herbert Hoover
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