Why I should not be allowed to shop tired!

[TawnyMyst]

More of a self sighting than anything.

I got off work this morning and realized I needed to go to the grocery store on my way home, I'm hosting Thanksgiving this weekend for 6 people and need to get everything basically. So even though I haven't slept in almost 24 hours and gotten not much more sleep this week period and just want to go home and sleep, off I take myself to the slaveway. I fill my cart with everything I need and head to the checkout. Have to wait for three people ahead of me cause they only have one regular checker. Slightly annoyed with the one lady getting only two items, there's four self checkouts and three express lanes open. She then has to argue with the checker about a coupon for the one item, expired 4 days. Ended up with manager getting called over and denying it.

Anyhow, gets to my turn and I start unloading my cart, I have a 24 pack of coke and as I'm picking it up to put on the belt, bottom breaks open and cans go everywhere, lovely mess. I apologize to the checker and she calls for cleanup as I start picking up the still intact cans and generally trying to clean my mess as much as I can. Manager goes for a new case for me and we continue on. I start loading my cart up again and as I pick up the one bag, it breaks and a bag of flour falls out to join the spilled coke on the floor, so now we have a lovely paste all over the floor of the one checkout open. Manager gets back with the coke and still no one has come for clean up, he pages someone again and goes to get a new bag of flour for me. I apologized again and asked if she had any paper towel at her cash, she does so I start trying to clean up as much as I can while she finishes ringing me thru and packing the cart. At this point, there's 4 people behind me, no cleaner and no other regular checkout open. Manager gets back with flour, pages clean up again and starts helping me to mop up some of the mess with paper towel. She finishes ringing me and the manager tells me to pay and head home. I felt bad leaving them to clean up my mess but just so tired, I want to go home.

To top it off, I get home and realize that I just bought a few hundred dollars of groceries and it fills a good portion of the back of my truck, my husband is at work and I now have to carry all of this food up to my place and I live in a third story walkup, FML.

[tofu]

awwww >.< that was unfortunate (to understate it)! very nice of you to try and help clean up though, so many people just make huge messes and waltz away without even so much as letting someone know that something happened. that's one of the differences between a sucky customer and a regular, helpful person such as yourself!

[MaggieTheCat]

It doesn't sound like it was your fault for the mess, it doesn't sound like it was anyone's fault. Just a fluke that both the box of coke and bag of flour happened to be weak/torn/whatever and both busted around the same time.

And it was really nice of you to offer to clean up. My husband is not allowed to pick which line we get into when we go grocery shopping anymore because if he does, we always end up behind someone who is incredibly slow for some reason. Either they have a ton of coupons, or their card is declined and they argue with the checker about it, or they decide after everything is rung up that they don't want something and a manager has to be called to void it, or they spill/drop something. One time we got behind a woman who spilled a ton of either green peas or some kind of dried bean, I don't remember exactly, I just remember it was a large amount of small round things and they were everywhere. On the till, on the floor, on the bagging area, everywhere. And of course she just shrugged and walked out.

[Kristev]

It was half and half for me. Half of the spillers at the registers were nice about it, though I'd never met anyone who attempted to clean up their own spills. The other half pretended they didn't do anything, though the cashier told me they had. This kind felt my cleaning was an intrusion.

In fact, most people at the registers felt I was an intrusion, because I had the gall to want them to not walk on my wet floor. I hate humans who kick wet floor cones out of their way, quite deeply.

[Sleepwalker]

Ehh, I'll usually not try to clean a spill unless I see it is going to ruin something else. My reasoning is that I don't have the equipment for it, and I prefer at work for people to (nicely) inform me of a mess so I can clean it up.