Sunday was a good day, until I walked into our neighborhood grocery store. My stepson and I went around and picked up a few essentials that we needed. When we were done we proceeded to the cash. As we waited to have our purchases rung through, we listened to the very cheerful conversation the couple behind us were having about the queen mum. Everything went smoothly, until it was my turn. What else is new! The cashier was a little snarky with me, But, I blew it off, it was possible that she was having a bad day. My items had been cashed through and after I paid for my items, I went to the end of the conveyor belt to bag my stuff. About 3 minutes later the couple behind us came down to bag their stuff, we were on the left side conveyor and they were on the right one. I have now reached the end of bagging my stuff when I notice that I have a yogurt that wasn't mine. I advised the cashier that it wasn't mine and that she had charged me for it. The lady beside me, said, "oh, I believe that is my yogurt". At that point she offered to give me the 45 cents for it when. I turn and look at the cashier, just as she gives me a nasty look and SNORTS at me. Yes, she snorted at me. I wasn't the only one who heard it, because the lady who's yogurt I had, looked at me in disbelief. If I could read minds, she would be thinking, did she just snort at you? I put a pleasant smile on my face and looked at the lady and said, "normally, I would just do an exchange with you, but I would rather make her do a refund and then ring it back in properly. It's a principle thing." The lady understood exactly what I meant, because she smiled back. I extended my arm, with the yogurt in it, toward the cashier and said, "you will need to refund this". The cashier gave a huffy type noise and retorted back "I have to call the manager (as if telling me this was going to scare me off)." I said, "fine, call the manager". She called the manager to her cash line, when the manager approached her, she said, "I have to refund this yogurt, it got mixed up with her stuff, because they didn't use the divider." Apparently the 1-foot gap between the couple behind me and my stuff wasn't enough of a dividing line. The manager did the refund and then without looking at me, handed me my change. The lady who originally wanted the yogurt, walked over to the cashier, watched, the cashier ring in the yogurt, and when the cashier rudely pushed her hand in the ladies face (without saying 45 cents please), the lady looked at her and said "I don't think I will be taking the yogurt after all" and then walked away. Her husband walked away with her, gently shaking his head and laughing. I on the other hand gave an evil laugh and then walked away.

Normally I am not rude to cashiers or retail workers. I know what kind of shit they put up with, because I was there once myself. For many years I worked in retail. This case was different though. Had the cashier not snorted at me, above would NEVER had happened. I am generally a very good hearted person, but snort at me and you will feel my wrath.

I always seem to pick the busiest day of the week to do my grocery shopping.  It doesn't seem to matter what day it is, it is guaranteed to be busy.  Another rule of thumb with me is I always attract weirdo's, I always buy the shelf missing the pin to hold it up and I always get in the grocery store line that is going to have a problem.  It could be a number of things, cash registers that break or run out of paper, price checks because the item will not scan in, a spill and most recently the grocery store idiot.  

I am next in line, the guy a head of me is waiting for the cashier to finish ringing in his purchase.  When the total comes up he chooses this time to dump all of the change in his purse on the conveyor belt.  He begins counting the change out.  This is very painful for me to watch.  I am also trapped at this point.  All the lines are crammed with people and I couldn't back out of the line even if I wanted to.  Finally he is finished, he then realizes that he doesn't have enough money, so he asks the cashier to take some of his purchases away.  I look at what he has in his pile, he has kitty litter, a bunch of tins of cat food, potato chips, puddings and a bunch of other crap.  Guess what he takes out of his purchases in order to be able to afford it.  The cat food!  I couldn't believe what I was seeing.  He would rather take his cats food away, instead of some of the junk food.  I don't get it.  If I know I only have a few bucks to spend and I know my dogs need food.  I damn well make sure I buy the dog food.  He was kind enough (sarcasm here) to leave 2 cans of cat food.  However, when he handed the cashier his money, she looked at it funny.  Looked at the guy and said, "What is all over this money?"  You see, the money was a peachy colour.  They guy replies "my foundation broke in my purse".  The cashier then proceeds to go through every single coin and separate the ones she could tell were money, from the ones that she couldn't.  She explained to the guy that she could take the unrecognizable pile as she wasn't sure it was real money (I don't blame her, I am sure people try to pull shit like this alot).  So........the guy now needs to remove more items so he can pay for his stuff.  Guess what he removes.  You got it!!!  Another tin of cat food!!!!!!  What a jerk.  He doesn't deserve to have a cat!!!!!!!!!! He must think his cat is going to feed itself.  I guess, he hasn't heard about the opposable thumbs thing and the fact that cats can't get jobs, so they can buy there own food!

IDIOT!!!

I HAVE SPOKEN!!! 

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