Weird Supermarket Incident

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That's what happened to me today, while I was trying to buy stuff for dinner in the local supermarket. I'm sometimes talking to a cashier, who's a very sociable woman and always chats with the customers and knows all the regular customers by name. So when I was going to pay for the food, she asked me what I was going to cook, and I told her, and the woman who waited in line behind me (customer #1) said she always wanted to make that. So the cashier and customer #1 started discussing cooking recipes and another woman (customer #2) was taking notes, while I was just standing there, waiting for my change. Then some guy (customer #3) complained why it was taking so long, because the discussion was sort of holding up the line. So customer #2 told him, and customer #3 got a bit upset and said the cashier should hurry up instead of talking and put the carrots not in a vegetable casserole, but somewhere else. (He was phrasing it very rudely, I won't repeat it.) So the cashier got upset and called for the manager, while another woman (customer #4) started screaming that it was abhorrent that people were discussing cooking recipes while other people on this planet don't have any food at all, and customer #1 basically told her to shut the f* up, and they started arguing VERY loudly, and I was getting a headache from all the shouting, and I had to wait for the manager to give me my change, because the cashier was busy screaming at customer #3.... People are weird.

Yeah! Imagine how I feel! Though, German always sounds like people are arguing, so it probably sounds 5x worse!

I don't know, I think people screaming in English would sound worse... Must be because I'm used to the German language. But screaming people always sound bad.

The grocery here is always so busy, it's here's yer change, BYE ! !

Actually sounds rather amusing, 'you shouldn't be talking recipes when half the world is starving.'
Good thing she didn't see the candybars you were buying, or you'd have really been in trouble ! !!

Oh, the supermarket IS very busy, but that doesn't keep the cashiers from chatting. It's not unusual to wait in line for about half an hour. I bet the cashiers are the best-informed persons in this area, they know EVERYTHING, from what exactly everybody is having for dinner, to whose cat is sick etc. Must be an interesting job.

Yeah, good thing I didn't buy my weekly chocolate supply just then. Once, a cashier (another one, but in the same supermarket) asked me how I managed to eat so much chocolate without getting fat. (A bit personal, that question, but whatever...)

Some people on this planet don't have enough food, but there is an overall surplice of food. It is not a question of having to little food, but getting nutrition to poverty stricken and remote area. These countries could get out of poverty if they were given a decent price for their goods instead of being robbed blind by their leaders and foreign companies.

Nigeria is the richest country in Africa but you wouldn't know it. Angola has lots of oil and diamonds, unfortunately all the money was spent on the civil war, and we know that De beers thought nothing of obtaining diamonds from both UNITA rebels and Dos Santos government. It remains to be seen if anything will change.

weird incident. just out of interest what were you making?

Sad but true.
I've read so many stories of food shipments being diverted, or stolen, or used for private gain.
I never argue with people who spout off about people starving, et cetera.
Wherever there are people starving, you'll find a corrupt government.

Sorry, off topic, and all that...

Potato casserole with vegetables.

Sounds yummy ! !!

It was. And of course now the secret spy network of supermarket cashiers know the recipe.

I've played a lot of DOD, Medal of Honor, and COD, so every time I hear German, I think crazy Nazi's trying to machine gun me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BRYhg7MKec

I mean! Look at that! German is the language of war!! !

scheißen!

I heard a guy say that once while playing darts, cuz he hit a tree. It was soooooo funny. I think thats it. I thought I heard Scheizer, tho. Don't speak German at all.

Ergh... We were discussing FOOD here, not the end result of it.

A few years back I paid a cashier with a couple of gold-colored sacagawea dollar coins (I'd gotten them as change from a post office vending machine); everyone in the line wanted to know if I had more, and were even pulling out dollar bills wanting to buy them off me — I practically ran out of there.

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