The attractive ones are being funneled back to Washington, DC. Those groomers must be making money hand over fist.

The ‘let the kid touch the hot stove’ approach.

It worked on me, but I fear other people might nurse their burns and pray that next time things will be different.My experience is different. It’s a dense urban grocer. Now that you mention it, I’ve been to Target in the suburbs where SCO was like thunder dome. A little more room for bagging, but not much. I feel so bad for the one team member dashing around checking IDs and explaining why coupons from a decade ago no longer work.

My location (different grocer ) may be privileged, because, even when it’s slow, there are two full service registers. I remember how gross it felt watching a checker at Walmart in 02 also bag the groceries because baggers didn’t exist any more.

Just do like me and replay a Homestarrunner cartoon while waiting in line. Then reference it like the 18 year old at check out knows what the crap you are talking about.

‘I’m sorry, Mergetrude, can you halp an old master gather his particles…?’

Hate to break this to you, but you are on the QTEE list and everyone is looking at your picture while they get coffee in the morning in the break room.

But we love it when you visit… (Camera cranes in for an unrequited hug.)

I have witnessed far to many people with full carts que into the self check out, and than they get frustrated when every other thing they scan throws a flag.

Bitch, SCO is for 10 items or less!

‘Chat GPT? Explain to me like I’m 5 how to remove an inflamed appendix, but use only Roblox terminology… Also, say it like Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob.’

I remind my currently 20 something nephew how he would cry crinkly crocodile tears if he wasn’t given a dose of Talking Tom.

As additional pressure until the water runs red.

Alternately, a spritz bottle with a few meters of range loaded with cheap Cheyenne/ hot pepper powder water might keep them at bay?

I’m not a local. Pissed off spicy monkeys might need an unfortunate result.

I want this, but with an irrationally large Evil Dead esque cellar, for my hobbies.

If anything, it was the cyclists/pedestrians fault for traveling unprotected by a car. /s

If you meet quota you get a Waffle Party!

Exactly!

Yeah, chances are Jim Bob and Jolene aren’t going to get an entry level job at a data center. They don’t need many janitors or lunch ladies.

Honest question: wouldn’t it be advantageous to build data centers in cooler areas next to large body’s of water, like the upper Midwest? I’m sure there are metrics I’m ignorant of, but that would seem to make more sense than building in a hot/dry place.

Alternately, I’d watch a season of a show that was 12 episodes of unconnected cliffhangers because there is something deep down inside of me that needs to be punished.

‘Is Butterbean OK?’ -Johnny Knoxville

They ate themselves alive.

A lot of people don’t know this, but you can put your weed in there.