Root Beer Seppuku

[Gawdzillers]

So it's about 5 minutes after closing (The SCs always stick around after closing...hm), and I'm mopping. In the next aisle over, I hear a crazy (apparently diabetic) lady screaming.

"I've been shopping here for 8 years and I've already walked out of Kroger tonight, and I am entitled to a diet root beer! Diet! D-I-E-T! That means no sugar!"

As I rounded the corner and began to mop the next aisle, this lady had her cart parked across the aisle, blocking it off at about halfway, so I mopped as much as I could and waited for her to move.

Later, the manager was talking to her about ordering some diet root beer for her, and the lady started moaning, "I'm just gonna have to drink the regular, 'cause I've had a hard day, and I'm ready to end it."

But wait, there's more!

The lady was so mad about there not being any diet root beer that when she got out to her car, she had a fit and THREW her groceries into her car and sped off, leaving behind a frozen pizza in the parking lot.

Sounds like she needed this:

[Jester]

"I am entitled to a diet root beer!"

No. No you're not. You're entitled to purchase anything the store has. You're entitled to a refund if something you purchase is defective or damaged. You're entitled to being treated fairly by the employees. If you're an American, you're entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, you spoiled cow, but the pursuit of it.

So you're entitled to look for diet root beer till the frogs come home, but you are not, in any way, in any shape, entitled to actually getting diet root beer if the store doesn't stock it, doesn't have it, ran out of it, or doesn't sell enough of it to justify them ordering it.

I love tongue sandwiches. No store down here sells tongue. I am NOT entitled to tongue.

So please lady, take your entitlement issues and your stupid diet root beer if you can find it, and get the fuck out of the store and Gawdzillers' life!

[bunnyboy]

No. No you're not. You're entitled to purchase anything the store has. You're entitled to a refund if something you purchase is defective or damaged. You're entitled to being treated fairly by the employees. If you're an American, you're entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, you spoiled cow, but the pursuit of it.

So you're entitled to look for diet root beer till the frogs come home, but you are not, in any way, in any shape, entitled to actually getting diet root beer if the store doesn't stock it, doesn't have it, ran out of it, or doesn't sell enough of it to justify them ordering it.

I love tongue sandwiches. No store down here sells tongue. I am NOT entitled to tongue.

So please lady, take your entitlement issues and your stupid diet root beer if you can find it, and get the fuck out of the store and Gawdzillers' life!

THIS!

[powerboy]

Jester, that rocks. That seriously rocks.

[Apathy]

I am entitled to a diet root beer! Diet! D-I-E-T! That means no sugar!"

Perhaps you have heard of this new sugarless drink called "Water." Chances are that you have a device in your home that dispenses this wonder-liquid. Jackass.

[One-Fang]

I am NOT entitled to tongue.

Snert! Mmmfffff!!!

[MadMike]

I am NOT entitled to tongue.

My wife tells me the same thing.

[RetailWorkhorse]

All the Diet Root Beers I've found has Aspertame in it anyhow. I hate the taste of Aspertame. I'll take my chances with the full-sugar Root Beer or simply do without.

Or get my hands on Diet Rite.

*Pops top on Diet Rite can and drinks*

[Snowbird]

All the Diet Root Beers I've found has Aspertame in it anyhow. I hate the taste of Aspertame. I'll take my chances with the full-sugar Root Beer or simply do without.

Or get my hands on Diet Rite.

*Pops top on Diet Rite can and drinks*

I've never tried their diet root beer, but Jones Soda has good stuff. It's also made with sucralose, woot?

As to the root beer fiend, it sounds like she was trying really hard to share her miserable day. No thank you!

[RootedPhoenix]

Perhaps you have heard of this new sugarless drink called "Water." Chances are that you have a device in your home that dispenses this wonder-liquid. Jackass.

Ah, too bad you couldn't have said that TO her (seeing as how you weren't there). The possibilities....

[DGoddessChardonnay]

All the Diet Root Beers I've found has Aspertame in it anyhow. I hate the taste of Aspertame. I'll take my chances with the full-sugar Root Beer or simply do without.

Or get my hands on Diet Rite.

*Pops top on Diet Rite can and drinks*

I'll take the Aspertame. Some of the diet soft drinks now have Splenda in them and I can't stand that - to me it tastes too sweet.

So for me, it's either a diet drink or bottled water.

And no, I'm not a fan of root beer per say. Give me a Diet Sunkist or Diet Dr. Pepper any day of the week.

[Broomjockey]

I love root beer. Always have, always will. I can even tell individual brands of root beer by taste. Barq's is more bitter, while A&W is foamy, even when flat, Mug is sugary, etc.

Diet Root Beer tastes like ass 100% of the time, no matter what brand. I refuse to drink it.

[Gawdzillers]

I love root beer. Always have, always will. I can even tell individual brands of root beer by taste. Barq's is more bitter, while A&W is foamy, even when flat, Mug is sugary, etc.

Really? I think Barq's is pretty sweet.

[Devilot]

till the frogs come home,

... This is my new favorite saying, recently dethroning "land walrus."

[froglet]

Barqs is different in the States than in Canada as far as I know, like Mt. Dew is.