I really made a fool of myself in the Albertson's self checkout line this evening. Having just broken my backup mountain bike, I was flustered. I came home to Horan (my roommate) trying to install a new battery powered rotisserie on the grill. Horan has a nasty habit of buying lots of stuff. By stuff I mean things you really don't need and only use occasionally. Horan has lots of it and it's always in the way.
Fast forward twenty minutes and I'm at the store buying a whole chicken so Horan can try out his new rotisserie. Along with the chicken I picked up a bag of red "patatos." Turns out when you look up "patato" on the touch screen look-up item function, it's not there. I started getting really flustered as it was rush hour at Albertsons and there was a line of hungry folks waiting for me to finish. Finally I called over the high school aged brace faced self checkout attendant, and in a not so pleasant tone asked her, "why the hell isn't patato in alphabetical order." She looked up at me and asked if I meant "potato." In fact I had meant "potato" and sure enough she clicked three screens over and there was a full screen of different "potatoes" to choose from. So next time you don't know how a common food is spelled do yourself a favor and don't use the self checkout.
Doug "can't spell patato" Dale
4 comments:
How was the rotisserie chicken? Was it delicious? Perfectly cooked? Moist to a fault? Did the whole lower Rattlesnake still smell like roasted chicken this morning? Exactly. Best occasionally used impulse buy ever.
Your really just asking for people to hassle you with this post Dale.
Wasn't it you who nagged Anna relentlessly until she sprung for the $400 BBQ? And Now your ripping Horan for the $50 add on?
Horan clogs the house with excess junk? Wait, didn't you say you were flustered because your "backup" mtb was broken? How many broken rigs do you have clogging the house? How about one bike that actually works instead of a boneyard?
I'll leave you alone on your spelling, honest mistake. But how did that chicken taste hot off the "useless" rotisserie?
Pip "tough love" Grove
Chicken was good, all my bikes are broken and I love to give Horan a hard time. I'm still in the kitchen cleaning up the mess from the first annual Horan chicken roast.
Your back up mountain bike? You mean my back up mountain bike, or have you not fixed that one after you've made it unrideable as well?
I too think spelling is overrated. I think everything should have the google option of "do you mean ___" after every misspelled word.
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