@whatisyourquest - Totally guilty about that with the iphone. There are certain times/places where I won’t respond to a text but because I have elderly/ill parents, I always check them to make sure it’s not an emergency. I’d rather have the sender think I haven’t seen the message than blow them off for a few hours.
About the not bagging at the grocery, my sister doesn’t bag. She wants to look at how much she is being charged for each item to make sure it’s right. She says she has to correct them all the time. And she can’t bag and look carefully at the same time.
I’ll raise my hand to doing this. As for the “what’s up with that,” the reason is that because (pet reeve rant ahead) some people have the mistaken notion that just because I read the email that they are “entitled” to an immediate response.I will respond in a timely manner - just not, perhaps, by the sender’s definition.
On the subject of grocery store bagging, as an FYI, back home on the continent, the expectation is not only will you bag your own groceries, but that you will bring your own bags.
“I don’t know if bagging is regional; TJ does not generally bag, and that’s where I do most of my shopping”
Bagging is very regional. In some places, you don’t have to take your groceries out of the cart and then they are bagged AND taken out and loaded in your car. Some places, you do it all. In my current area, you unload your cart but your groceries are bagged for you. No help loading them in your car, though.
I’ve been to about 6 different Trader Joe’s and all of them bag my groceries very nicely. I’ve never bagged my groceries there. Nor is parking tricky in my local TJs.
Reading the pet peeves here reminds me of the benefits of living in a less densely populated area.
@momofsenior1 
guilty as well.
And nobody would ever dream of asking "do you need help to your car? LOL!
Nobody ever bags their own stuff at any of the grocery stores I frequent. Just as well since on the few occasions when I did bag, I felt like I kinda suck at it - slow and just randomly throwing stuff together and overloading the bags.
In theory the Safeway here bags for you. In practice, you can’t live here on what they pay grocery workers and they are permanently understaffed. It’s just less aggravating for everyone if people help out when they are able to bag their own.
Read receipts aren’t the issue with sending texts. Responding is. People seem to think that since they read my text, they’ve done their job. That’s fine in a face to face situation where I say something to someone and they don’t have to respond because I know they heard me. Not so with texts. So a simple “ok” or smiley face allows the other person to know you’ve read their text.
This applies to texts that don’t need a response, such as “I’ll see you tomorrow at eight.”
Buying one or two items and getting handed an arm-length printed receipt.
^ all the coupons and junk they hand you with the receipt
Our Trader Joe parking lot is a nightmare and I wonder why it was allowed to be built in a dense neighborhood with such a small parking lot. They always bag but make the bags super heavy no matter how many times I request that they do not. At our local QFC (Kroger) I ask for help to my car unless the weather is awful. The baggers love it–they get outside and we talk about their classes and such.
I am not sure where to post this, here, or the Homeless thread. Anyway, the following incident happened in TJ parking lot just as I’d finished loading my car and was backing out of my space. I heard a lot of yelling (my windows were closed!), I stopped thinking I’d hit somebody. I looked around and I could not see anything and so continued my exit; just as I was straightening up to drive out, out of nowhere a person, who may have been homeless, but was definitely ‘high’, barreled for my car, slammed himself against the driver window with such force, the car shook, he bounced off and kept on running. I’ll be shocked if he was not injured, he hit the car with such force, and he was running from the pharmacy which is situated in the same mini-mall; he’d shoplifted something. It frightened me so much, I had to pull back in and calm down. I’m still shaking!
@tpike12 It happened to me today! I spend $2.19 on a prescription and was handed 28" of receipt and coupons, coupons which I’ll never use btw!
Parking lot at Trader Joe’s? You don’t live in Brooklyn! Subway or bus or walk or bike.
I thought of you guys at Safeway today :-). I was too busy before noon so I had to go after lunch. Bad move (how do you manage, people who have real jobs?? LOL). The store wasn’t too crowded but it was, of course, understaffed at checkout so I had my choice of really long line for checkout person or self-check. I chose self-check. I had a lot of stuff today. I did really well with piling my delicate pile of lighter items on top of the heavier items on the self-check shelf area and only had to have the guy come over once to input his credentials but then it came to time to bag my things and of course, the light stuff was on top but I wanted the heavy stuff on the bottom in the bags and the Safeway Lady Voice kept telling me to Please Take Your Items and I was really trying to Take My Items but I really didn’t want the cilantro to end up UNDER the damn HAM thank you anyway but she kept telling me to PLEASE TAKE YOUR ITEMS and I wanted to tell her that if she’d fricking pay more than $15 an hour maybe they could actually get people to work there and people wouldn’t have to either go to the store at 8am or else stand in line for 30 minutes and maybe I need to start shopping at Mollie Stones or Whole Paycheck and damn I fricking HATE self check if I have more than about 5 things…
People that ride bikes down the middle of the road expecting to be treated like a car, but then just blow through stop signs or stop lights.
Talking about parking, I can’t understand parents who let their small kids run loose in the parking lot. I almost ran over a kid once because I had no way of seeing him as he walked right behind my SUV. I was ready to kill the mom who walked unconcernedly way behind the kid.
I’ve never bagged my own at Trader Joe’s, it must be quite regional.
We had a Trader Joe’s open near us in MD and it was right next to the body shop we used. I asked the guy in there once if he loved having that Trader Joe’s nearby, thinking of how convenient it must be to run in for a few things before he heads home for the day and he said, “oh, we get tons of business from that parking lot now”!
My strategy was to go around 8:30 PM, and they close at 9. Not only was the parking lot manageable, but they would be restocking for the next day so you could actually find everything you were looking for.
This is worth watching - you can tell how old it is and yet not much has changed:
People who crack their knuckles in public. The sound makes me shudder. Ugh.
When I am at the gym and just trying to relax from the cares of contemporary life and someone has MSNBC on their cardio machine. I just try ignore it. Or CNN at the airport when I’m just trying to read a book before my flight.
It’s not just Fox that’s annoying.
It’s all noise.
The way car drivers run stop signs and red lights suggests that these bicyclists may be just applying their car driving “skills” to bicycling.
Anything and everything related to smoking is my number 1.
Yesterday I was in a store and reminded of this thread. A woman was having a very loud and personal (about her taxes) conversation on her cell phone speaker…really?? It is annoying enough when we are subjected to just your end of the conversation. It is double annoying to hear both sides.