Was it wrong of me to say it?

[MagusParticipant 424]

I was at the check out stand. The checker had gone all gooey with the customers baby. Had walked around the counter and doing c~~~ s~~~ with the baby. She finally walks back and proceeds to check out my items. I say I don’t want a bag, I found everything just fine, and I hate babies…

I just figured the slob ought to know not everybody is in love with little children. In fact I love dogs much more than children. Every time I hear “women and children first” I just want to make a scene. To me women and children should be at the very end…

[MuglintarParticipant 1333]

So what did you actually say? “No, i don’t want a bag?” – that’s absolutely ok, IMHO

"Him, who delights in solitude, is either a wild beast or a GOD!" - Aristotle (Aristot. Pol. 1.1253a) 1 Hom. Il. 9.63; the passage goes on: ἐστὶν ἐκεῖνος ι ὃς πολέμου ἔραται.

[joetechParticipant]

Were you pointing at the baby’s mother when you said it? “No, I don’t want a bag…or a baby.”

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[MagusParticipant 424]

I said, before she could ask, “no, I don’t want a bag. Yes, I found everything just fine. And I hate babies.”

I get tired of them always asking about bags and finding things. And I was p~~~ed she made me wait 60+ seconds while she visited with the customers baby. Too bad we can’t send the women off to another country.

[MagusParticipant 424]

joetech wrote:

Were you pointing at the baby’s mother when you said it? “No, I don’t want a bag…or a baby.”

I wish I had thought of it!

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

Not the same, but our local store staff always asked “D’you want a Bag?” followed by “Do you have a Nectar Card?”. Now, I was going there everyday at one point and the same woman would ask me the same questions everyday. Answer always No, and No, I don’t like having my spending monitored by a Loyalty card.

So one day I did the same as you same woman, 100th time I’m asked. I know she recognises me, and knows what my answers gonna’ be, but still asks, so I put my beer on the counter and said I don’t need a bag and I haven’t got a Nectar card. I wasn’t p~~~y about it and just wanted to save time. She gave me a look of total disgust and thinly vieled rage.

She guilted me.

I let her.

I’ve noticed recently that they’ve stopped asking people, so maybe it wasn’t in vain.

It's Time to get Wise

[joetechParticipant]

Young Frankenstein
Gene Wilder: “Help me with the bags.”
Marty Feldman: “Alright. You take the blond, I’ll take the one in the turban.”
My favorite movie line.

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[MagusParticipant 424]

Greg Honda wrote:

So one day I did the same as you same woman, 100th time I’m asked. I know she recognises me, and knows what my answers gonna’ be, but still asks, so I put my beer on the counter and said I don’t need a bag and I haven’t got a Nectar card. I wasn’t p~~~y about it and just wanted to save time. She gave me a look of total disgust and thinly vieled rage.

She guilted me.

I let her.

When I can’t think of something to say I usually just compliment them. Like “you look so beautiful today!” And if they try to strike back then fake innocence hoping they’ll say something inappropriate.

[MuglintarParticipant 1333]

The last line “I hate babies” is unnecessary unless they want you to participate in their gooey-gooey. There is nothing you can gain from that, eycept angry employees at your local grocerie and probably a bunch of women comming after you. Not to actively look for trouble is also part of being stealth. Different thing when someone asks for your opponion, but shouting out pure hate is provoking without necessity. So, yes, you shouldn’t have said that, but now it is too late anyway and you apparently got away with it. Nothing to spend too many worries about.

"Him, who delights in solitude, is either a wild beast or a GOD!" - Aristotle (Aristot. Pol. 1.1253a) 1 Hom. Il. 9.63; the passage goes on: ἐστὶν ἐκεῖνος ι ὃς πολέμου ἔραται.

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