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Ditkaless Wonders

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Halloween. Late Afternoon. Down to the local Albertson's for a few things for the wife. Approach 15 item checkout lane with 11 items in the cart. All lines are long, including this one as some fat bakery goods eater has maybe 30 kinds of muffins, donuts, cakes, cupcakes and what not in her cart, not the regular cart, but the motorized one for the handicapped which seems to always be used by the obese (Not that obesity is not a handicap). I hear the checker ask if she is having a party, implying all of the goodies could not simply be for her, the customer. The response from the tub of goo, "Nope, just for me."

So far no big deal, life as one knows it in America.

I get up to where I am next in line. Maybe a three minute wait. (2 woman in a row, so coupons, discussion, credit cards not at the ready, you know the drill.) Walking up behind me is a guy with 7 bags of Halloween candy and a large vase of flowers. He has no cart. His hands are full. Just behind him, having apparently circled around in her motorized cart is the same fat woman. Apparently on the way out she saw that candy had been marked down and she had a good dozen or so bags of it now staked on top of her impossibly high pile of baked goods which she had previously purchased and which were already staked higher than the basket on the cart.

Seeing the guy holding so much without a cart I let him jump in front of me. He thanks me. He checks through quickly. Meanwhile Large Marge asks if she can cut in line. I politely say no. I get to the checker and she says the guy I let cut in front left a $20.00 bill to pay for my items. He shouldn't have. An extravagantly nice gesture for some common courtesy.

Large Marge then pipes up asking if he left any money for her. The checker rolls her eyes and says no. Large Marge then starts yelling that she saw the eye roll and wanted the Manager.

I offered to stay with the checker as the manager approached. She said thanks but not necessary. As I was leaving I heard the manager say "Oh, you again." I knew the checker would be alright with her boss.

At any rate $20.00 for some common courtesy? I guess it was not that common to him, or he was awfully flush.

 
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He was probably flush, probably in a hurry, and you made his day. Maybe it was Chet! Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do that for someone else!

 
I liked Marge getting huffy when she was not allowed to cut into line. Marge, if you had not backed up the line originally by being in the wrong line with too many items there would never have been one. And, oh, just relax, you are the only one seated, you can wait a minute.

 
If I were in charge of the world I would impose a ban on all Rascals. The people who drive them around are always rude and lazy.

 
If we had DWcare instead of Obamacare grocery stores would not be allowed to supply the fat and sedentary with these scooters. The only exercise these folks are ever going to get is the exercise they exert shopping for more fatty treats. In fact, not only would I eliminate the scooters, but I would put all fattening foods up an incline treadmill ramp, a long one. I'd make them work for it. Each item would be encased in a lexan case weighted to 20 pounds which would have to be carried to the check out line one item at a time where the checker would remove the item from the display box. Oh, no riding the incline treadmill back down to the checkout line. They would have to use an up escalator to walk down, carrying their package of shame. Any caught cheating the rules would be deprived of their goodies.

 
Ditkaless Wonders said:
If we had DWcare instead of Obamacare grocery stores would not be allowed to supply the fat and sedentary with these scooters. The only exercise these folks are ever going to get is the exercise they exert shopping for more fatty treats. In fact, not only would I eliminate the scooters, but I would put all fattening foods up an incline treadmill ramp, a long one. I'd make them work for it. Each item would be encased in a lexan case weighted to 20 pounds which would have to be carried to the check out line one item at a time where the checker would remove the item from the display box. Oh, no riding the incline treadmill back down to the checkout line. They would have to use an up escalator to walk down, carrying their package of shame. Any caught cheating the rules would be deprived of their goodies.
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Oh and props to you for letting the guy with his arms full go ahead of you. Props to the guy for dropping a $20 toward your tab.

Props to Large Marge's endocrinologist for the challenge he's been tasked with.

 
Someone help me here. #5?

noun

1.a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of abook or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
2.an engraving, drawing, photograph, or the like that is shaded offgradually at the edges so as to leave no definite line at the border.
3.a decorative design representing branches, leaves, grapes, or the like,as in a manuscript.
4.any small, pleasing picture or view.
5.a small, graceful literary sketch.
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Edit: never mind.

 
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