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Dave W.
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 Posted - 11/25/2004 : 12:17:37
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In a "can you top this?" sort game, describe here the oddest combination of items you've ever seen being purchased by someone in a regular supermarket. You've gotta list all of the items the person was buying, not just select a few to make a strange combo. For example, one of my in-laws said yesterday that he'd seen a guy in line at the checkout with nothing but a six-pack of beer and a turkey baster, but that's not so odd at this time of year.
Somewhere around 20 years ago, though, I was in line in front of a guy who was buying ten pounds of stick margarine and a roll of breath mints, and nothing else. I have no idea what he was planning.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/25/2004 : 14:36:13 [Permalink]
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I don't know quite what to do with this. I've never paid much attention to someone else's shopping cart; only wished I'd gotten in line with my small purchases ahead of them.
I have recieved some odd glances at my blood sausage, limburger, and hot pepper items, however. Once, when I bought 40 pounds of sugar, I was asked if I was doing some big-time pickling. I replied that I was making wine. Actually, I was about to ferment corn & potato mash intending to make a couple of gallons of twice-distilled 'shine for the M/C's Christmas party. Came out pretty good, too (yes, I have a small 'still and know how to use it. The tradition lives on).
Hmm. I once saw an enormous woman with a cart heaping full of nothing but store-brand cola and other, various pogie-bait. It wasn't funny, but rather sad. Sadder yet, I've seen similar more than once.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 11/25/2004 : 14:50:36 [Permalink]
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| filthy, the only times I've seen a person with a cart full of 2-liter soda bottles was right before a hurricane was supposed to hit us, and the store had already run out of bottled water. |
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Siberia
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Brazil
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Posted - 11/25/2004 : 15:00:57 [Permalink]
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| The strangest I ever saw was someone with a cart full of toilet paper and an absurd quantity of milk... and that was it. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/25/2004 : 15:18:22 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
filthy, the only times I've seen a person with a cart full of 2-liter soda bottles was right before a hurricane was supposed to hit us, and the store had already run out of bottled water.
This gal had not only belly-wash but cakes and those various, packaged things like Little Debbie's. Also candy. I'm sure there was some real food in the mix, but I didn't see it. It caught my notice because of the sheer volume of the, let's face it, crap.
There was no hurricane anywhere on the map.
And it is not uncommon, although I've never seen so much at one time. This sort of thing catchs the eye due to it's utter adnormality. We all like a little sweet garbage now and then, but ye gods!
I gots a Snickers bar in the freezer. After I finally digest the Thanksgiving pig-out I've just done, I might have that bad boy. Maybe tomorrow.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 11/25/2004 : 15:51:52 [Permalink]
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Sometimes what seems like an absurd amount of one item, or a few items might be headed for a school party or, perhaps, supplies for a day camp. I know about the school thing because Michelle has to supply her own party if she is going to have one because there is no funding for that sort of thing…
Beer usually isn't on the list however… |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 11/25/2004 : 21:41:01 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
filthy, the only times I've seen a person with a cart full of 2-liter soda bottles was right before a hurricane was supposed to hit us, and the store had already run out of bottled water.
Isn't that the truth, Dave? Over the last few years living in Baltimore, there's one thing you can count on: before either hurricanes or blizzards, people will stind in line for hours to get a dozen loaves of bread, six gallons of bottled water, and a large supply of soft drinks. How this is supposed to tide them over while nature strikes is not clear to me. After all, beer/burbon does not seen to be a part of the equation. Indeed, the massive sales in alcohol only seem to happen after the disaster has struck; not before... |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 11/25/2004 : 22:16:32 [Permalink]
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| Cuneiformist, I've said this many times: the real truth of the matter is that the first four things which sell out prior to a predicted natural disaster are eggs, toilet paper, milk and bread. Why? Obviously, natural disasters are times at which people want two things: lots of French toast, and lots of pooping. I'm sure there's a psychological doctoral thesis somewhere in that behaviour. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/26/2004 : 04:34:30 [Permalink]
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We get runs on water here, too. It makes more sense to me to keep a couple of jugs on hand and fill them with tap water when a storm is approaching.
It's also true about the bread, but I don't recall a lot of canned goods like Dinty Moore's and canned beans being stripped from the shelves. I'd think that those should be the first to go along with salt pork and the like.
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 11/26/2004 : 08:22:45 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
Cuneiformist, I've said this many times: the real truth of the matter is that the first four things which sell out prior to a predicted natural disaster are eggs, toilet paper, milk and bread. Why? Obviously, natural disasters are times at which people want two things: lots of French toast, and lots of pooping. I'm sure there's a psychological doctoral thesis somewhere in that behaviour.
Ahhh! I never put that together before. The French toast must represent a subconcious form of surrendering to Mother Nature. Then they become scared shitless.
That's gotta ba it. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/29/2004 : 13:09:49 [Permalink]
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| Nothing have I found disturbing at the market, at Mcdonalds however I saw a fat lady buy seven fillet o fishes and a DIET coke. (back when they poured drinks for you) I wanted to vomit at the thought of eating 7 fillets. |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 11/29/2004 : 13:32:07 [Permalink]
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| Sure ya didnt rick, damn lush preschoolers. |
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"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Wendy
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USA
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Posted - 11/30/2004 : 14:12:20 [Permalink]
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Toilet paper, Ex-Lax and a Playboy. An evening of manly pleasures ahead, I guess. |
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Storm
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/30/2004 : 14:47:37 [Permalink]
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What a hilarious story i am sure Dave you could probably figure that one out by now. I love to watch what people buy.Now that you mention it I will be much more awre and remember and then I will get back. Although I don't think I could top the ten pounds of stick margarine and a roll of breath mints Hilarious  |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 11/30/2004 : 15:26:51 [Permalink]
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OK.
1 box blush wine
1 jar crunchy peanut butter
1 box dog treats
1 package propalactics
don't ask. I went to the store hungry. Strange stuff follows me home when I'm hungry.
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