I think that grocery shopping has to be one of the more frustrating re-occurrences in my life. I have to go to the grocery store every week, and spend hours of my time engaged in the process from start to finish (from leaving my house, picking up my mother, driving to the store, shopping, returning home, and putting the groceries away). And it has to be done over and over again, requiring an on-going commitment of my time. I cannot choose not to do it. But the truly irksome part is that the stores themselves tend to be filled with annoyances.
So the rude clerk, or the high (stoned/whatever) bagger, or the outdated food, or the inability to find what I'm truly looking for, make the experience psychologically exhausting.
I found little amusement in the bagger Sunday, who was obviously high, and couldn't focus on even putting the groceries into the bags. I bring my own cloth bags, yet he kept trying to put the groceries into the store's plastic bags, realizing his mistake and muttering and moving them into my bags. Then he left half the bags sitting on the checkout counter as he went off to bag on another checkout!
Of course my on-going problem with baggers is the fact that they have never had a fresh fruit or vegetable in their life, so they have no clue as to how fragile fresh fruits and vegetables actually are and they shove them into bags with canned goods or other heavy items or things that have sharp edges. I get home with bruised or smushed things, and I am stuck making the best of a bad situation or paying for the gas to drive back to exchange things (which with current gas prices is just not worth it).
I think that grocery stores should make baggers eat all the fruit and veg that they mess up, so they might have some clue what their impact is!
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