Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Good God, am I having a stroke today?

If I ever come to your store, I'll handle the scanning while you handle the bagging.

Speaking of, I really hate TJ's paper bags. They rip. even double bagged the handles rip off when carrying long distances. I'm going to start taking in my own non-reusable plastic bags.

Don't you have any canvas or other reusable bags? Or have you left them all at my apartment?

I don't use reusable ones most of the time because I need plastic ones for cat shit disposal. And with TJ's I just always forget we have them. Plus I resent them for not having plastic bags.

I only bag at the regional warehouse type place that emphatically tells you that nobody is going to do it for you and sends your groceries down a long-ass conveyer belt that splits into two like one of those bowling ball returns. Your groceries on one side, the next person's on the other, etc. You push a button with your knee to move the belt and collect the rest of your groceries.

Also we only use cloth bags mostly because I got tired of having a huge stockpile of old paper or plastic ones around and a sense of shame instilled by the co-op where we shop.

Is this place...WINCO???

There is this grocery store in the Northwestern U.S. called WinCo, which is cheap and great and I <3 and miss it. You bag your own groceries, though, to keep your groceries ¢heap. I had applied for a job there when I was 17, and a few days later, I found a WinCo uniform polo shirt for sale at a thrift store. I had what I thought was a brilliant idea, to dress in it and go to the WinCo and start bagging people's groceries to show I was a "highly motivated self starter," as they say in the classifieds. This did not go over well. I got a manager called on my immediately, and they threatened to ban me from the store forever if I didn't leave right away. Didn't get the job. This is the anecdote I tell to cashiers when I stand around bagging groceries for myself.

― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Monday, March 28, 2011 6:02 PM (1 year ago)

They had the bowling lane belts at Food 4 Less too.

Also we only use cloth bags mostly because I got tired of having a huge stockpile of old paper or plastic ones around and a sense of shame instilled by the co-op where we shop.

Mail me the plastic ones, ease your mind.

Sometimes I have to go to jewel and just cram a bag full of plastic ones just to have enough to throw out cat poop.

Looool, Abbott you are amazing.

Mail me the plastic ones, ease your mind.

I saw this episode of Hoarders. Terrifying.

for a while tescos thought it'd be a good idea to have biodegradable bags. only they tended to biodegrade in the kitchen cupboard before i got around to reusing them. they'd literally crumble into dust if you left them a month or three.

All good Stevie was just pointing out here we barely bag our own :)

I don't use reusable ones most of the time because I need plastic ones for cat shit disposal. And with TJ's I just always forget we have them. Plus I resent them for not having plastic bags.

Our TJ has plastic bags! You just have to ask for them.

This is good news.

for a while tescos thought it'd be a good idea to have biodegradable bags. only they tended to biodegrade in the kitchen cupboard before i got around to reusing them. they'd literally crumble into dust if you left them a month or three.

I have a bag in the kitchen in which I store any plastic bags ready for use as bin liners or whatever. I can't remember why I had a Tesco bag because I never normally shop there, but I did have one and it did this. I still haven't managed to get rid of all of the bag dust in there.

I'm so used to bagging my own groceries that I just do it automatically even if there is a bagger there but at WF they've recently started randomly asking you to remove the stuff from the basket first as well - it's this tiny express lane where there's no room for a basket AND groceries so by the time you've emptied your stuff out and moved the basket somewhere out of the way, they've already scanned the stuff and are waiting for you to bag it (also on a tiny area where there is no room for groceries) and swipe your card etc. I find this quite weird.

Abbbottt - it's absolutely WinCo. It's such a crazy place, like it feels weird there not buying $500 worth of crazy junk food because that's what everyone else seems to be doing.

The WinCo in Redding was the main "goin' down to town to get supplies" store for the wild-eyed mountain folk up living in the Cascade foothills.

Yeah ours draws out the crazies from the Idaho wilderness east of here. I've actually seen people with Ron Paul shirts buying tons of stuff with food stamps with no display of cognitive dissonance whatsoever. Also the parking lot is full of pickup trucks with hilarious bumper stickers about how everyone should kill more wolves.

As my wife's colleague who grew up in the Bay Area and moved here from Connecticut sort of snobbishly put it "WinCo reminds you that you're in Idaho" as the town its in is a university bubble and not really representative of North Idaho as a whole.

I felt like no matter how many groceries you put in your cart it was $42 at the end. So awesome. What is their price on bananas for the 2012 year? I just paid 58¢ a pound for some with a sniffle, thinking WinCo would've had them much better.

It is true every time you go there someone has a shopping cart with like 5 cases of Powerade in it and a million flamin' hot Cheetos.

They have WinCos in Utah now, it would be great if in five-ten years they migrate down to AZ.

It is true every time you go there someone has a shopping cart with like 5 cases of Powerade in it and a million flamin' hot Cheetos.

shelf-stable for armageddon!

we don't have wincos out in l.a., but we do have a 7-11 on pretty much every block. skater kids buying energy drinks and taquitos!

WinCo was also notable for being the only place in Idaho that sold Faygo. Draw in the juggalos.

I feel like WinCo + Faygo is like some sort Juggalo beacon, or like what future historians would point to as the beginning point for their current dystopia. I haven't seen it here but I grew up in Michigan so I'd be kind of excited to get Rock & Rye once a year.

I don't know what bananas are now but they have signs above lots of things in the store showing what the local store and Safeway charge for things and then bragging about how much more awesome WinCo is.

I saw a woman in TJ's go to the bagged salad section and buy like 15 bags of salad. WTH. I can't even eat one of those without part of it going bad.

looking at the website, california does have some wincos -- around fresno, which seems right.

they have signs above lots of things in the store showing what the local store and Safeway charge for things and then bragging about how much more awesome WinCo is

those signs OTM

Any discussion about the price of bananas requires:

http://www.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/lucille-bluth-jessica-walter-arrested-development.jpg

52¢ yesterday.

stranger looking at his iphone by the pub window on a sunny day - sunlight formed dazzling reflection dancing all over the wall in front of me which made my self-diagnosed attention-deficient brain completely unable to do anything except stare at it like a cat following a laser pointer (also it kept reflecting into my eye)

IA further multiplied because he had TWO smartphones, the one he was waving around and a Blackberry on the table in front of him

the former is irrational because I'm sure he had no idea it was reflecting or that he wasn't holding it still, but, two smartphones on display?

He's too smart for just one.

- potential employers who make job candidates apply through a website that requires the candidate copy/past a cover letter into a tiny box and upload a resume in Word format.
- potential employers who do all of the above, and then also make the candidate enter all the information on the resume into a web form that doesn't allow for the nuances of the modern US job history (volunteer work, internships, contract work)
- potential employers who do all of the above, and then also make the candidate answer a series of yes or no questions designed to weed out people who don't meet the qualifications, but does so in such a way that it eliminates qualified candidates (X years of paid experience doing AB, and I have X years of experience doing B and also volunteer experience doing A) and then also ask for the stupid cover letter again.

Really it's the fucking web form after you submit a resume that gets me.

nb: I lied on the yes or no question, figuring it is more important to obey the spirit than the letter of that particular law.

I just applied for a job with online fields for everything in my resume, accompanied by the caveat "DO NOT COPY AND PASTE TEXT INTO THIS FIELD. YOUR INFORMATION WILL NOT BE RECEIVED IF YOU COPY AND PASTE TEXT." So I had to retype my resume and personal info.

wut

that is just a lie

>:(

rationally angry here

Yeah I've never seen any input fields coded to determine how the text got in. Jerks!

the fuck?!? that's one of the craziest things I've heard!
I got an interview from one of those stupid web form applications so I'm not too annoyed at them but I was so nervous that it wouldn't submit all my info correctly because of my current volunteering job making me put 'no' to 'are you currently employed' but writing about it in that field anyway.

Maybe they put the "no c&p" warning cos ppl were pasting from Word - this would be likely to introduce funky errors and weirdass characters into the form, which *would* possibly break the submission. Surely pasting from some basic plain txt thing would be fine though.

bloody proprietary usb cables - can't charge my mp3 player at work because the cable is at home and the other *three* usb cables i have with me are all different. wouldn't've bought it if i'd've known but you couldn't tell from the pictures.

yesterday went to buy paper. shopkeeper was on the phone the whole time. rang up my stuff, £2.80. gave me £2.10 change. would've complained but he was on the phone so just walked out. i hope he enjoys the last money i ever spend in his shop.

and today the bloke in tesco had trouble working out the change despite it being right there on the terminal in front of him. £17.16. gives me a tenner, a fiver, *three* pound coins and 11p. i point out his mistake and he takes all the pound coins off me and stands there scratching his head. eventually calls his boss. (he's usually fine. so i'll put this down to the early monday morning)

This is for all you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbhOZjSuic

Actually yeah, people with working cash registers who try to do the change in their head when hey, you've paid a lot for that beep machine that can do the same thing. Particularly since I'm frequently "helpful" in giving say 5.23 when the goods cost 4.73, and they look at me like I'm trying to molest their children and I want to say "Look! Ask the machine! The machine understands I'm being helpful!"

In the nearest supermarket to my previous home there was one guy who would always very slowly count out the 27p in small change to bring it up to 5.00, and then slowly count out the remaining 23p and give you the resulting two piles of coins, all the while giving you the evil eye

this guy was a grumpy and unhelpful sod in many other respects and I would deliberately avoid his queue if more than one line was open

people who pronounce "library" as "lie-berry" even though they actually work in a library.

the berry is a lie

One of the lie-berrians in my high school said "lie-berry."