Comments on: oldie but goody http://thejenni.com/2007/06/oldie-but-goody/ REDUX Mon, 24 May 2010 23:07:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joleen Sprecker http://thejenni.com/2007/06/oldie-but-goody/comment-page-1/#comment-905 Joleen Sprecker Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:10:50 +0000 http://jen872.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/oldie-but-goody/#comment-905 thank you for this hilarious guideline for shoppers! but I must say --where is the etiquette from the clerks?! My husband and I have 5 children-we live in a small community and have no choice but to shop in the town 45 minutes from our home. Our children are always with us and we take pride in that our children are rare-they actauly behave in public! and NO I'm not elaborating on that--they really do!! I must admit tho that on occasion they do get a little bit,well-hyper(certainly never to the extent I've seen some other ppls children tho, thank heavens!)anyways, I do have a story in here somewhere!LOL.. The other day we went grocery shopping...and since, as I've mentioned we live quite aways away, and our kids had spent most of the day crammed into the truck, by the time we got to store they were fairly anctious to get OUT of the truck-so we go in to the store and get the few things we needed-we get to the check out and theres a new employee(oh joy I think-how long is THIS gonna take?)there was a hot dog and pop sale out side the store and the kids were starting to get "hyper" so I suggest to my husband,"why don't you take them out and get them each a hot dog and pop" WELL!!!!! what I heard next shocked the hell out of me-the clerk found it her business to say to me,"do you really think they need more sugar?"....GOOD CHRIST! who did this obviously highschool aged girl think she was saying something like that-she was new but that is no excuse! This was ,and still is, my sopping venue of choice-and we literally spend thousands of dollars at that store every month(with 5 kids we HAVE TOO!) we always, with the exception of this particular day-receive excellent service from all the various departments in the store! I honestly could not believe my ears with what this employee said!!! I replied to her "comment" with this, "i really don't think thats a matter of your opinion" And as it just so happens, I am good friends with her employer and I did tell them about her remark. My hope was that she would be fired but to my dismay she was not and now when we go into the store and she is working, we refuse to be "serviced" by her.I don't know if that is really the way to go, refusing her particual service, but hell, what else can I do short of getting her fired!(seeign as that didn't happen!) so theres my little story. thanks, Mrs Joleen Sprecker thank you for this hilarious guideline for shoppers! but I must say –where is the etiquette from the clerks?! My husband and I have 5 children-we live in a small community and have no choice but to shop in the town 45 minutes from our home. Our children are always with us and we take pride in that our children are rare-they actauly behave in public! and NO I’m not elaborating on that–they really do!! I must admit tho that on occasion they do get a little bit,well-hyper(certainly never to the extent I’ve seen some other ppls children tho, thank heavens!)anyways, I do have a story in here somewhere!LOL..
The other day we went grocery shopping…and since, as
I’ve mentioned we live quite aways away, and our kids had spent most of the day crammed into the truck, by the time we got to store they were fairly anctious to get OUT of the truck-so we go in to the store and get the few things we needed-we get to the check out and theres a new employee(oh joy I think-how long is THIS gonna take?)there was a hot dog and pop sale out side the store and the kids were starting to get “hyper” so I suggest to my husband,”why don’t you take them out and get them each a hot dog and pop” WELL!!!!! what I heard next shocked the hell out of me-the clerk found it her business to say to me,”do you really think they need more sugar?”….GOOD CHRIST! who did this obviously highschool aged girl think she was saying something like that-she was new but that is no excuse!
This was ,and still is, my sopping venue of choice-and we literally spend thousands of dollars at that store every month(with 5 kids we HAVE TOO!) we always, with the exception of this particular day-receive excellent service from all the various departments in the store! I honestly could not believe my ears with what this employee said!!! I replied to her “comment” with this, “i really don’t think thats a matter of your opinion”
And as it just so happens, I am good friends with her employer and I did tell them about her remark. My hope was that she would be fired but to my dismay she was not and now when we go into the store and she is working, we refuse to be “serviced” by her.I don’t know if that is really the way to go, refusing her particual service, but hell, what else can I do short of getting her fired!(seeign as that didn’t happen!)
so theres my little story.
thanks,
Mrs Joleen Sprecker

]]> By: Bina http://thejenni.com/2007/06/oldie-but-goody/comment-page-1/#comment-907 Bina Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:58:35 +0000 http://jen872.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/oldie-but-goody/#comment-907 I loved it when you first posted this and I still love it!! Grocery stores or all stores for that matter (Walmart? Hello?!) should enlarge it and post it where patrons CAN'T MISS IT!! Love it!! I loved it when you first posted this and I still love it!! Grocery stores or all stores for that matter (Walmart? Hello?!) should enlarge it and post it where patrons CAN’T MISS IT!!

Love it!!

]]> By: Just Me http://thejenni.com/2007/06/oldie-but-goody/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Just Me Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:06:48 +0000 http://jen872.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/oldie-but-goody/#comment-906 .. the exact reason why I sucked it up, forgot my principles and took advantage of my local supermarket's online shopping.. complete with next day delivery guarenteed for only a $10 delivery fee. Ok.. ok... so it was really the aggrevated assault charge thrown on me after the little incident in the frozen food aisle when the little !@#$#%^ banged my head with the freezer door because she couldn't grab the buy-one-get-one free Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream fast enough. Either way, there are some benefits to grocery shopping probation!! ;) .. the exact reason why I sucked it up, forgot my principles and took advantage of my local supermarket’s online shopping.. complete with next day delivery guarenteed for only a $10 delivery fee.

Ok.. ok… so it was really the aggrevated assault charge thrown on me after the little incident in the frozen food aisle when the little !@#$#%^ banged my head with the freezer door because she couldn’t grab the buy-one-get-one free Breyer’s Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream fast enough.

Either way, there are some benefits to grocery shopping probation!! ;)

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