MORE ON COMMON SENSE

.....or morons with no common sense.

Maybe this post doesn't have as much to do with common sense as just an observation of the "changing of the times."

One day I might say to my children (if I ever have any, but we'll save that one for a whole separate post), that when I was a child, people could actually do math......without a calculator. Yes, can you believe it!

I love the strange looks I get when I go to check out at a store and my purchase comes to $16.53 but I hand the clerk $22.03 so that I can get $5.50 back. I don't like pennies and I don't like $1's. So I can get rid of some of these and not get any back as change.

However, this really confuses this new generation of kids. They always try to give me back the $2 and just use the $20. All they have to do is punch the number into the cash register and it does the math for them. It tells them exactly how much they should give me back.

Maybe I am the strange one here, and nobody else does this. I don't know??

People don't count money back to you anymore either. They just hand it to you, and half the time you have to pick up your own change out of that dispenser shoot. Maybe they don't know how to count back change or maybe it is just laziness.

PAPER (FABRIC) OR PLASTIC??

First, I just want to say that this post was in no way influenced by "EARTH DAY," nor am I campaigning for any environmental cause. This is strictly an observation that makes me wonder about the common sense of some people.

As I am sure you know, right now there is a big push to buy and reuse fabric grocery bags in place of using so many plastic bags in an attempt to help the envrionment.

I continue to use the plastic sacks. (but I believe that I am still a good person).

Okay so here is what baffles me........

In high school I worked at a grocery store. Before working the customer service/video rental counter, I was a "bagger," and I think I was a pretty good one at that. What I don't understand is ........ if we are using way too many plastic sacks, why is there no effort being made by the store's baggers to use less bags??

I try my very best to help out the baggers by grouping all of my items as I pull them out of my cart. I put all of the produce, cans, boxes, chips, non-food items, etc. together to try and make things easier.
So why is it that..........

• my hamburger buns were in a bag getting smashed with an onion and a bottle of salsa
• there were only 3 items in said bag.
• one bag only had a box of crackers and some cheese in it.
• one bag only had a box of Q-tips in it....I get the whole "don't combine non-food items with food" thing, but I really don't think Q-tips will contaminate a box of Rice-A-Roni??

Are ya kiddin' me??? I could have fit everything that I bought tonight in 1/2 (or less) than the number of bags that I brought home AND I wouldn't have flattened hamburger buns or smashed chips.