Just one quick bitch, part two

[Icequeen]

You have to stop everyone who's leaving without buying anything? FFS. It happens quite regularly that I go into a shop and look for something, do not find it and decide to go elsewhere instead. And just as regularly, I go into a shop and just browser for stuff. The browsing may result in me buying something or me leaving and buying at a later date. Or just me leaving.

But if I were stopped on my way out I'd never return.

It sounds intrusive.

IN "my book,"  it is very intrusive and unrealistic in practice. Half the people on their way out the door will not take two seconds to answer my first "scripted question."

I Hate this new duty.

On the other hand there are a few people who are pleased that they can actually do what they came for in one stop. Those folk are rare, but usually very grateful for the help. They had given up because we are so busy (read that as, "understaffed") and do not want to interrupt anyone.

Shop online as CBC suggests when ever you can. I do.

  That was Icequeen, but I would love to shop online.  

   Unfortunately I have neither a credit card nor a big mailbox.

I have a giant mailbox...and a spare in case the snow plow gets it.

[Semicolon]

You have to stop everyone who's leaving without buying anything? FFS. It happens quite regularly that I go into a shop and look for something, do not find it and decide to go elsewhere instead. And just as regularly, I go into a shop and just browser for stuff. The browsing may result in me buying something or me leaving and buying at a later date. Or just me leaving.

But if I were stopped on my way out I'd never return.

It sounds intrusive.

IN "my book,"  it is very intrusive and unrealistic in practice. Half the people on their way out the door will not take two seconds to answer my first "scripted question."

I Hate this new duty.

On the other hand there are a few people who are pleased that they can actually do what they came for in one stop. Those folk are rare, but usually very grateful for the help. They had given up because we are so busy (read that as, "understaffed") and do not want to interrupt anyone.

Shop online as CBC suggests when ever you can. I do.

  That was Icequeen, but I would love to shop online.  

   Unfortunately I have neither a credit card nor a big mailbox.

I have a giant mailbox...and a spare in case the snow plow gets it.

CBC could use a spare lunchbox as a mailbox.

["couldbecousin"]

  As usual, the punctuation mark is talking out of his comma.  The USPS won't deliver to a lunchbox. 

[Lestat]

No need for a credit card.  I don't have one, nor do i ever want one.

A debit card will do just fine.

[Semicolon]

  As usual, the punctuation mark is talking out of his comma.  The USPS won't deliver to a lunchbox. 

How do you know? Have you ever asked? Perhaps the USPS will deliver food to your lunchbox.

[Parts]

I got all set up at work only to have to leave because what was behind the wall was not as it was expected and I needed additional equipment

[Lestat]

Buggering hades. Shit fucking arse on a stick.

That rather large shot of oxy I had earlier on in today put me right out cold.
Too late now to find anywhere that has melons for sale.

First thing tomorrow morning I am going straight to town, and buying a great big sack full of those little t iny fragrant ones, can't remember the name of those...galia? gala? little round ones with the orange flesh and heavily aromatic, slightly perfume-ish  scent.



Fuck. I want to gorge myself until fit to burst on melons. All and every kind of melons (except horned melons, those filthy vegetable-tasting fuckers that are pretty much just huge tomatoes in a damned expensive cucurbitacean disguise.) ick!

But I want galias, honeydews, watermelons....and I want at least one big juicy some random kind that I can cut a hole in the top, mash the flesh all up to slush with a clean stick, and then pour in vodka, stick in the freezer, and get a semifrozen vodka spiked melon slushpuppy.                                                                         

[Jack]

  As usual, the punctuation mark is talking out of his comma.

[Pyraxis]

If I started bitching it wouldn't be quick.

[Icequeen]

Storms...internet has been buggy all day.

[Semicolon]

  As usual, the punctuation mark is talking out of his comma.

It's better than talking out of my period.

Storms...internet has been buggy all day.

[DirtDawg]

No need for a credit card.  I don't have one, nor do i ever want one.

A debit card will do just fine.

So, true.  Just Do NOT ignore my main point. THE debit card should be issued by an international Banking concern to be used, Literally anywhere.

Debit cards are the way to go, but for international ordering, you really need one that has a "brand name"  on it. It still works the same, but it can be used as universally as any credit card, with a double check of your available balance upon each transaction.

Now, you can still overdraw your account, if you are not responsible, but generally, using a brand named card is just as foolproof as one with only access to your own bank.

[DirtDawg]

Once wrote a complaint to Home Depot for beginning the policy of opening and searching boxes being purchased in the checkout. Told them they should hire more security instead of treating every customer like a thief. They responded with some policy bla bla; shop at Lowes now.

Lowe's does the same thing these days, as does Miejer, Penney's, Sears, TJ Maxx and Walmart.  We all have to. Being subtle in checking the merchandise is key to NOT making each customer feel like a criminal but it HAS to be done.

Have never had my purchases searched at any other store. Maybe it's more a locational thing where theft is more a problem in some areas than others. It was very nervy, standing there hoping no one had tampered with the items I was purchasing.

Just wait until your local  "big box"  store gets hit by a team of professional thieves who walk out with literally "a new car or equal value" in one trip and, due to this big heist, is put under scrutinous guard by the corporate entity which issues paychecks.

The big bosses do not like to see losses like this (one event=thirty to forty thousand bucks in theft. It happens!). They will respond and the community at large will suffer. They will probably never catch the professional thieves.

[odeon]

While I can certainly understand how the professional thieves can be a problem, stopping me at the exist would still result in me never returning. The thieves are not my problem.

[odeon]

My left eye stings like hell.