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
