Tuesday, December 23 2003
Posted at 11:00 PM by Brandon
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| It's officially Christmas eve now, and if you dont have all of your shopping done you are really screwed. You probably still have enough time to get it done, it's just that you're going to be putting yourself through Christmas hell if you need to shop now. This includes grocery shopping too. I cant say much for other stores, but as far as the grocery store that I work at, you would think that they try to make your life even more hectic around Christmas. Imagine that your family needs a few more things to be completely ready for Christmas dinner. Your mom/dad/whoever gives you some money and tells you to go pick up 3 12 packs of pop, a ham, and some bread or anything else that you might need. You're thinking thats no big deal, it will be one quick trip, in and out. Nope. First the parking lot is cluster hell. There is a steady stream of cars coming in, and hardly any going out. There are cars pulling in and out of parking spaces as slowly as possible. You decide to avoid all of that by finding a parking spot at the very end of the lot. No problem. When you get inside the store is packed. Literally wall to wall with people. Where there arent people, there are tons of little displays in the middle of the floor. The aisles are just about six feet wide and filled with people and displays. No one can really move, you just bounce off of the person next to you and head in the general direction of the crowd. You finally get everything you think you will need though, and you find yourself in a line of about 25 people going to a checkout register. About a half hour later you are finally there. Ready to checkout and get out of the madness. You put your 3 cases of pop on the belt with your ham and whatever else you bought. The cashier takes one look at you and shakes his head. "You cant buy 3 cases of pop and a ham unless you have $20 worth of groceries before the ham and pop without tax.". By this point you're pretty much stunned. Isnt this America? Cant I just buy what I want to buy and get out? Whats with the restrictions? You hold up the line telling the cashier that you NEED these items, regardless of whatever stupid rules they have. He finally tells you that getting the $20 of groceries is just to get the sale price on the pop and ham. How is that saving money? You dont care, and now you're starting to make a little progress. He's finally doing his job and getting the total of your order. But omg wait a second. Do you have a discount card? No? Well then they have to get you one. They dont even keep one at every checkout so you have to wait for someone to come around with a discount card for you. The bagger asks if you want paper or plastic bags and you answer him, thinking that this means that you're problems are just about over and you're almost out of this place. The bagger then asks if you want your bags doubled, and about 5 other questions that he has to ask if he doesnt want to get fired. AHH! Questions! Then the price on your ham needs to be checked, etc. You really have to wonder if the people upstairs are sitting around watching the madness on the "hidden" cameras just laughing it all up. Yeah, I've had to sit through that for the past week or so. It's actually pretty fun watching the expressions on peoples faces when you tell them that they cant have what they want unless they have a certain number of groceries. But I have a little vaca coming up because apparently they wanted to 'punish' me for making schedule requests and I have the next 3 days off! Ouch!!! Well, now that all of thats done....Tomorrow is Christmas. I'll get on here and post what I got, cuz you know no one cares! |
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-The Hectic Holiday Spirit