Ok, at risk of being labeled misogynistic; here's another non-understood peeve of mine.
In the grocery store, or K-Mart, or wherever, many women will wait until the cashier has rung up their total and THEN, reach down into that bag of chaos (purse) and fish out their fucking checkbook. Then they sloooooooooooooooowly procede to fill the thing out, of course forgetting that the cashier is going to ask them for I.D. . .. they fumble around in the bag of chaos for awhile longer (by which time all the males in the line behind her and groaning or growling) to find it.
I've seen this so often it's ridiculous, and I kid you not: I've never seen a guy do that.
Why is that???
In the grocery store, or K-Mart, or wherever, many women will wait until the cashier has rung up their total and THEN, reach down into that bag of chaos (purse) and fish out their fucking checkbook. Then they sloooooooooooooooowly procede to fill the thing out, of course forgetting that the cashier is going to ask them for I.D. . .. they fumble around in the bag of chaos for awhile longer (by which time all the males in the line behind her and groaning or growling) to find it.
I've seen this so often it's ridiculous, and I kid you not: I've never seen a guy do that.
Why is that???
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 9:57 AM"I've never seen a guy do that"
Because you must not see all of us guys who carry a purse. -
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 10:30 AMMy question to you is....why are you in such a hurry? -
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 1:07 PMMy question to you is....why are you in such a hurry?
Which reminds me of another thing (surprised? lol): Why do women take all friggin day shopping?
Guys (the majority) go into a store with one mission: get whatever you came for & get the hell outa there as fast as possible, lol.
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 1:10 PMverrrrrrrrrrrry funny, lol. You should see my courier bag; looks like a purse on steroids. -
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 3:10 AMI am man-purse/courier bag carrier - mine is beginning to smell (owed to the wet climate and cigarettes) - I can become quite finicky over maintaining the disequilibrium of its contents, which has caused many a grocery clerk to bludgeon me with my own purchases - I also suffer from cashier-type OCD wherein no bills may be replaced in my wallet unitl all the dead presidents french kiss each other in order of rank - -
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 5:09 AMPlease remind me to drop all potential purchases and run screaming out the door if you're in front of me at K Mart!
That's one more kickass image, btw, about the french kissing dead presidents. I will steal that one for sure. -
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 7:14 AMAnd why isn't the K in front of the M silent like it is when it's in front of an N? -
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 7:54 AMTake your time Army. I want to see what you've got in there.
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 7:05 PMK Mart.
Of all the letters in our alphabet, they chose the K. But not the knisch K, or the knowing K; the KAT K; the KITTEN K; the OH_K.
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 7:09 PMHey, onearmedhitchcock:
It's truly a shame you weren't cast as Ignatius O'Reilly in "A Confederacy of Dunces" (John Kennedy Toole). If you haven't read it, it's based in New Orleans and almost everything you write makes me wonder if you're actually channelling Ignatius.
In some ways (and only some), this is a huge compliment. -
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This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.Unsu...
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 9:50 PMI'll have to add that to the footlong list of books I should read in incessant simultaneity with the ones I'm currently not finishing - thanks for the tip -
and the remainder from your 'only some' - what of it? -
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Sun, May 15, 2005 - 11:38 AMit's a great book. oh yeah the check book thing. decimus. i honestly don't know. it bugs me too. i dont' know what's the hurry either, but then it's like the line is long and people are growling and it's like are they doing it on purpose, but here is the zinger. the checkers dont care. hell know. they like the break. blah blah blah. how r u thelma? how's the kids, didja hear? gossip central, oh i need a roll of quarters and did you want cash back and i am sorry i need to call the mgr to sign off this check even though i have watched you fill it out for 5 minutes. so, it goes..... -
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Sun, May 15, 2005 - 3:39 PMMy irritation with grocery store 'filibuster-ers' is in some respects hypocritical of me. I'm down with E.F. Schumacher ("Small is Beautiful"); a healthy society moves at a human pace! Social interaction is a GOOD thing!
But I STILL just wanna get into that crowded, flourescently-lit, garishly-colored weird well called the grocery store and GET THE F OUT! -
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 5:49 PMTime
Life
People
Us
Self
(oh jeezus damnit she has the wrong brand of yogurt for her effing coupon)
Star
Sun
Globe
US News
("these were marked two for a dollar")
Brittney
Chelsea
Brad
(what now? hit the wrong button on the debit machine and can't figure out how to return to the main menu?)
Eclipse mints in five colorful flavors
mini astrology scrolls
ring pops
gum
(the smooth-riding magic go-kart is stuck in reverse - the register is out of tape - the kid behind you begs his mom for a ring-pop - you are still third in line - PING! "just a reminder to stop by our deli for a delicious...")
kill me
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kill me
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kill me
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kill me
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 7:57 PM(hiccup) kill me
kill me
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A man did it today!
Wed, June 1, 2005 - 4:03 PMFor the first time I can recall, a male did the checkbook thing at the hardware store!
It was a little sad tho, because as I watched him fumble with the check he seemed to be illiterate. . .
and that always touches me;
so not so much room to be annoyed.
I went to the other line anyway, lol.
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