Sunday, June 5, 2011
Huh?
Last week I noticed this sign in a local grocery store:
Let's just ignore the less/fewer problem for now. What's up with this "about 10 items" nonsense? You either have 10 items (or fewer—sorry, couldn't ignore it forever) or you don't. Oh, but it gets better. Here's what the sign right above the register says:
Yes, that's "about 15 items." So just in case some knucklehead got in line with 15 items (or 16 or 23—whatever his definition of "about 10" is), now he's safe. When signs are this unhelpful, really, what's the point?
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What? Now, that's just ridiculous. There are way too many people out there whose "15" items end up being 37.
I just returned from Dick's and bought two or fewer items. Then again, one of the items was a bag of mushrooms containing about five mushrooms, so maybe I actually had about two or less items.
This is hilarious. Have you ever been waiting in line with way more than 10 or 15 items and had the checker in the something like 10 or 15 or whatever line say I can take you over here... I look in my basket and say I have WAY more than that and they shrug its OK. Then as you are unloading 2 weeks worth of groceries someone with 2 items comes up behind you and give you that look or you can feel the look searing into your back as you unload faster than you can!?
I HATE when this happens!
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