Ok. When someone is holding a mini cup of free coffee from Trader Joe’s courtesy counter is not the time to ask him to look at a Gala apple so as to ascertain whether it is this kind of apple which he wants. There is a chance that even when you point out that the coffee is now trickling onto the floor of the produce aisle, he will still be so fixated on the apple that he cannot remember how to right a cup. If this should happen, you will be glad that Trader Joe also keeps a healthy stash of paper napkins near the coffee. That way you don’t have to tell anyone there’s a puddle of coffee on the floor. You can just soak it up.
Trader Joe is a funny place to shop anyway. They have carts—both the older drab looking ones and the newer shiny red ones (you usually try to get a shiny one if you have an easy choice,) but on a typical day you can’t count on being able to push your cart very far without ending up in a bumper car knot with three other cart-pushers. So it’s easier if you park it at an end cap, in front of the mini biscottis, get Jeff to hold the handle as if it’s a very important job, and run down the frozen aisle on foot to grab some fettucini alfredo.
As it is not a large store, soon you will be finished and have everything you need except for the orange juice you came in for, but forgot. There’s a great deal on the sunscreen spray, located in blue canisters in a bucket at the end of each check out line. You will forget to buy one of those too.
1 comment:
Cart etiquette should be taught in school.
a) Leave it in the main aisle where a well-meaning worker might remove it, or b) take it with you and risk blocking up a narrow section?
Or, as seems to be the most common lack-of-thought, c) park it diagonally to totally block the aisle, while chatting on your bluetooth cellphone to someone who doesn't realise your mind should be focussed on your shopping.
If your answer was c), I think you may have shopped where I work.
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