I keep thinking that maybe one day I'll carry a small pad with me and make a mark for every time I see someone talking on his or hers. Maybe even break it down some as sex and age groups. Maybe a subcategory for those I see using it while driving. And then there was the time I went into a public restroom and there was a guy in the stall doing what a guy in the stall of a public restroom is supposed to do. While talking on his cell phone! What category would I give that? Maybe the Slow Person type II could gain something from this guy.
John Q. Public
Talk about blinders. Like I said I apologize if I step on a few toes, but that means you, if only in a general sense. As I said I've worked in the retail business all my life and have had plenty of time to observe. What is it with you people? Can't ya'll put something back where it belongs after you decide you don't want it? If you change your mind about an item to purchase, do you have to leave it at the other side of the store?
Let me explain something here… the difference between a walk-in freezer, and a cooler. They are both large vaults of varying sizes with just a couple of major differences. It has been my experience of over thirty years that one is kept at 0° and the other somewhere around 45°. Another difference besides the items kept in each, or the state of said items, is the small amounts of frost or lack of that collects when the humidity in the air freezes on contact with metal surfaces. Folks, this is a good rule to apply in regards to the differences between a frozen food display case, and a fresh food display case.
This will help when you think of placing items in such inappropriate places as milk and eggs in the ice cream freezer, ice cream in the garden center, bras in a meat case, and meats anywhere there is not refrigeration!
Recently we underwent a complete remodel. Everything in the store was rearranged and replaced with new. There was a small army of people there five days a week, twenty-four hours a day for ten weeks. Everyone worked hard! By the morning of everyday, the section of the store of which was worked the previous night was immaculate! By the evening of that day it was destroyed, that storm named John Q. Public did it in. Everyday it literally took hours, dozens of man-hours, to put it back together. Geese "John Q" have a little courtesy.
What about the guy who takes an item from a display knocking several more down which lands on his feet. He looks down at the several items and instead of replacing those walks away so that the next animal wearing blinders will promptly run over them with a full cart. No matter that the said items could be very squashable cupcakes or such, they could have been land mines and it wouldn't matter. Oh well, maybe he's getting older too and experiencing those first physical signs such as slight discomfort when bending over to pick something up.
Like I said, these are just a few things I've noticed that tell me I'm getting older. More so, it's not the things I've noticed, but the fact that I've noticed them and care. From now on when I fill out one of those questionnaires and get to the “likes and dislikes” sections I'll just reply to the likes with “everything”, and for the dislikes, I'll post this to a website and just send them here!
