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Confusion
So I’m at Wegmans in the checkout line, and a funny thing happened. I was asked 3 different questions at the exact same instant. What’s interesting is that these 3 simultaneous questions came from only 2 people. One person was the cashier... he’d just finished scanning all my items and he asked me whether the next stuff on the conveyor belt (which clearly belonged to the next guy in line) was mine. The other person was this girl who floats around doing 10 things at once at the ends of all the checkout aisles. She appeared behind me and asked me two questions: "do you need a cart?" and "are these all yours?" Not only did she ask those two questions simultaneously, which is a feat in itself that I still can’t understand, but those two precise questions required opposite answers from me because they were all my bags, but I didn’t need a cart. It was a cleverly crafted double-question which was impossible to answer efficiently without ambiguity. Stunned by my opponent, I stammered "WHGT! JGTH! FLBT!!"
By this point the cashier was ringing up the next guy’s stuff on my bill. Me and the next guy tell him to knock it off, and I turn to the floatey girl and say "Yes those are all mine no I don’t need a cart thank you." But by that point she was already five aisles down doing something else (fortunately).
It just caught me off guard. I’m used to shopping at Wegmans at around 1 in the morning when there’s no one there... at 7PM the place is bumpin’.
On the upside of things, I did get a grapefruit, some Ken’s Steakhouse French-with-Vermont-Honey salad dressing, fire (well ok propane), and Tropicana Grovestand Lots-of-Pulp orange juice.
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