Not SC's.. just no common sense!

[cheese]

A few things that happened today.. I'm sure I spend all day just rolling my eyes at these people.

On our economy products, the packaging is very basic, and apart from the necessary nutritional info etc, it only has the name of the product, a crude drawing, and a "funny" comment - ie on the sausage rolls it says "roll out when hungry", on the sausages it says "bang on".. etc. I had a lady come up today with a packet of economy bread-crumbed fish, and said "I want to ask you about these.. it says on the packet that they are covered in bread crumbs, but this comment underneath says "crumbed, not crumby", so I don't understand, which are they?" I was trying to explain that the "not crumby" part was their attempt to be amusing by using the word crumby meaning cheap and nasty, but she just didn't get it.. "But why would they say its crumbed and not crumbed? How can it be both?" Made my brain hurt..

Had a young looking boy trying to buy alcohol, I ID'd him, and he didn't have any. The beer was put back; thought that was the end of it, until he came back in half an hour later, with a older woman who looked to be his mother, and attempted to buy the same crate of beer.. Now if you're going to try that, just let your mum buy it herself and don't accompany her, or at the very least, don't be stupid enough to try and go through the same till and the same cashier you got turned away from earlier

A lady had forgotten her wallet and wanted to leave her trolley at customer services whilst she popped home (literally round the corner, apparently) - which was absolutely fine, this happens a lot, except.. she wanted to leave her baby in the trolley too! We told her that we would be happy to watch her trolley for her but we cannot be left responsible for a child - and she couldn't understand why they weren't the same thing! "Well if you have an eye on my trolley, you'll have an eye on my kid at the same time??" Right lady.. and if we take our eyes off it for a second and your trolley gets taken then it'll take you another 10 minutes to fill it up again, big deal.. whereas your BABY is slightly more important, no?

Is it the weather, or what?

[Ree]

A lady had forgotten her wallet and wanted to leave her trolley at customer services whilst she popped home (literally round the corner, apparently) - which was absolutely fine, this happens a lot, except.. she wanted to leave her baby in the trolley too!

*SIGH* I've said it before, and I will say it again, some people don't deserve the children they were blessed with.

I was listening to some family/child psychologist/motivational speaker one time.

He was saying that a person wouldn't just hand the keys for their home or their car to a complete stranger and say, "Could you watch this for me for a bit while I go run an errand," yet every day, all over the world, people willingly hand over their most precious possession, their children, to complete strangers, trusting them to protect them and keep them safe from harm.

How odd is that?

[Mixed Bag]

this comment underneath says "crumbed, not crumby", so I don't understand, which are they?"

We have symbols for things like food being kosher or being grown certain places, why not also ?

[Linda]

On our economy products, the packaging is very basic, and apart from the necessary nutritional info etc, it only has the name of the product, a crude drawing, and a "funny" comment

I bought some bin bags from that particular range today. The ones that say "thinner, not rubbish." Took me aaaages to get the joke and I was wondering whether they really were bin bags or not.

I blame the weather. And the lack of a day off.

[friendofjimmyk]

It's amazing how to some people their children are an afterthought.

[laughingfuzzball]

I had a lady at a fast food restaurant once who cam, got food for her two daughters (around five and eight), and went and took a table. Several minutes later, I noticed she was gone, but the girls were there. There didn't seem to be anything wrong, so I just figured she had gone to the restroom so I went back to washing dishes. About ten minutes later, I see K, who is very good with and fond of children, out there calming down the younger of the two. It turns out she had told them she would only be gone five minutes, but the younger girl was concerned that she had been gone so long. K stayed with the girls (and did a great job chearing them up) while I called mall security. She got to explain to them why she thought it was a good idea to ditch two young children while she went half way across the mall to do a return. All told she was gone for some time around half an hour.

The worst part is, it was so dead that night that if she would have asked we would have watched her kids for her.

[dragonflygrrl]

I came back from lunch one afternoon to find a coworker standing in our store all alone, nervously eyeing a baby that was lying on the counter. When I asked him what the story was, he said, "Oh thank God you're back. This woman came in, had a credit check, and came back with a $500 deposit. She told me to watch her baby, and took off to get the money." She finally came back, twenty minutes later, with $500 in twenties, and got her phone. I told her that she was never, under any circumstances to leave her child unsupervised in our store again, and she said, "Well, it isn't like he can walk or anything yet, what's he gonna do?" I didn't bother to explain- if she can't figure it out on her own, why bother?

[abbynormal]

Geez! The thing that always amazes me is that we KNOW if the child is hurt or harmed in any way we would be held responsable for that child. It's alarming how nonchalent people can be!

[Seanette]

Geez! The thing that always amazes me is that we KNOW if the child is hurt or harmed in any way we would be held responsable for that child. It's alarming how nonchalent people can be!

In some cases, I'm sure it's a short-circuit between the ears. In other cases, I'd suspect someone's hoping to win the lawsuit lotto. (Or am I just WAY too cynical?)

[wagegoth]

I think everyone should be required to be on birth control, starting at puberty, then have to prove they deserve to have children before they get the antidote.

It would relieve over-population and stupidity in one shot.

[JuniorMintz]

Too bad your sperm count isn't directly in line with your IQ... seriously, how great would that be? The higher your IQ, the higher your sperm count!

[Tria]

I think everyone should be required to be on birth control, starting at puberty, then have to prove they deserve to have children before they get the antidote.

It would relieve over-population and stupidity in one shot.

Side effects.... And not everyone is fucking at the onset of puberty....

[One-Fang]

I think everyone should be required to be on birth control, starting at puberty, then have to prove they deserve to have children before they get the antidote.

It would relieve over-population and stupidity in one shot.

Yes, I'm a firm believer in sterilisation at birth. If you qualify for a parent licence when you're ready, you're permitted to have a test tube baby. No, it won't be genetically yours. What, you want your 1/8 chance of Down's, your mother's ugly nose, the family thin fingers anyway? Stocks would be held, and screened, and if you're approved you simply get the next available zygote.

I could even be persuaded into a system where the baby girl's own eggs are kept, so that at least women could have a genetically related child.

I'm not sure where we'd get the sperm. Perhaps a few donations from the currently living before forced at-birth sterilisation for boy babies comes in would be enough to last the species a very long time. Fear of running out? Breed a few boys specifically for the purpose.

I'm callous, no? Could be the basis of a good sci-fi.

[CanadaGirl]

What is this? Human genetics and stuff? I don't agree with this test tube or mandatory sterilization stuff, as this is not a dictatorship country. It's a democracy where everyone has rights. So maybe we should all get back to the topic.

[JuniorMintz]

It's a democracy where everyone has rights-

Including the right to free speech. I don't think anyone on here *really* thinks people should be sterilized at birth-I know when I suggest it I'm saying it with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. Like pretty much everything I say, really.

But you're right, back on topic I guess...