Strange interactions

TrialKingTrialKing
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Whats some interesting or strange conversations or interactions you had In a grocery store?

I haven't had anything to crazy but me an a lady went on for 30mins debate about putting chocolate milk in cereal

Another time was a playful debate with an older gentleman about which was the better bread to get wheat white thick grain no grain in the end we settled on let's bread made with egg whites and how the other bread turns into sugar lol

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  • JubalJubal

    Over the years, I've been propositioned by quite a number of women at the grocery store. Some were very direct lol

    I guess seeing a guy pick out his own produce is sexy?? It sure can't be my looks - I'm scruffy and fugly.

  • SnuggleJohnSnuggleJohn

    @Jubal It's probably because they recognize you from your role in the show Firefly.

  • JubalJubal
    edited July 2024

    well @SnuggleJohn , my coat IS kinda brown ...

  • JohnR1972JohnR1972

    Met my old lover in a grocery store, the snow was falling Christmas Eve. I went to hug her and she spilled her purse.

  • TxTomTxTom

    Grocery stores (or any food market) are always a good grounding place for connecting. It's that synergy between our connection with each other, and our connection with food.

  • Notacat1Notacat1

    Grocery stores are a good place to buy groceries. I like to connect with the produce in a way that I can’t connect with others, and reminds me of my connection with the dirt.

  • [Deleted User]FriendlyFemale (deleted user)
    edited July 2024

    The cashier at Ross this weekend asked me to check if she had any boogers when she was ringing me up.

  • ecuddlebliss21ecuddlebliss21

    I had shopped at a health food store where staff tend to like a quick greet and businesses with myself. Including one whom I had physically caught from falling on her back and injuring herself. She had no injury whatsoever. I felt love at first sight.
    One day, I wasn’t in mood to be greeted by anyone, nor meet the eyes; but just promptly grab groceries and leave. Incidentally one customer was acting skittish watching me around from a distance in my peripheral visions, then ‘ran’ out of the store without anything. Afterward, turns out I found him on a serious Wanted Crime Roster, and updated his whereabout, then he was found within the week.

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    I've had a number of deep conversations and vulnerable comments made to me by grocery store employees, when they notice my semi-colon shirt (a symbol supporting those who struggle with suicidal ideation, etc.)...

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Semicolon

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

    🦄 Enthusiast 🏞 Travel Fiend 🐘 Animal Lover

    Happy summer vibes! 🐬 🎹

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited July 2024

    I worked at a commissary on base as a bag boy when I was 15. It was common for us to go with the officer’s wives (it was the 70s and you wonder why so many serial killers existed then?) to their homes and carry in their groceries and unload them to be put away. These were normally really good tips. One colonel’s wife though saw a spot on the shirt I was wearing one day (I was a boy. I had stains on most of my shirts within 24 hours of purchase). She kept pressing me to take my shirt off so she could wash it. She was nursing a glass of scotch and even offered me a sip. I took a sip and hated the taste. She offered to pour my own glass…but please take your shirt off. I really wanted to get back to making money for some weed so I insisted on being driven back. She yells upstairs and the Colonel came down and drove me back to the commissary. Looking back she was either grooming or trying to cuckold the Colonel.

    When I got back to the commissary one of the older boys asked me if she tried to get me to take clothes off. She was a predator. I mentioned the Colonel’s name once a year later to my dad who said the Colonel divorced his wife. It was nasty he said. I asked why they divorced and my dad said I don’t know, but she always seemed nice to me. I think about my dad’s comment and wonder why he thought she was nice. Nice in what sense? That was 1977 and chances are no one would listen to boys accusing a Colonel’s wife of being a predator. She would be close to 90 today if she is alive.

  • cuddlefaerycuddlefaery
    edited July 2024

    I regularly get mistaken as an employee at most places I shop...

    even if my outfit is clearly not uniform or even business/work appropriate attire in any way 🤷🏻‍♀️ I mean, I don't mind helping people, but sometimes it gets a little ridiculous. I've had people get downright hostile when I told them "sorry, I don't work here". Most people get embarrassed for the mistake and apologize, but a few have made it a Big Deal ™️ - I even have had more than one try to report me to store management for not helping them. The managers are always just as confused as I am 🤣

    I've had some good conversations with grocery employees, though, that I've known for years.

    My mom managed a hotel that I also started working at as a teen, and I eventually went on to assistant manager after she passed and I returned from the East Coast. A few of the long time employees have literally seen me grow up coming to that store with my mom to buy groceries for the hotel breakfast, and when I became AGM they got to see me doing the shopping instead.

    There's this one older gentleman who seems like he's not planning to ever retire, has worked as morning shift lead at the store for 25ish years now at least. When he first met me, he thought I was my mom's sister and that my sisters were my kids - legitimately, not just flattering my mom. I was 15 or so and already 5'11" to my mom's 5'7", and she looked really young for her age. He and I still joke about it and reminisce about my mom when I happen to go back to that store. One of the beauties of growing up in a smaller city is how interconnected the community can be.

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    Oh my gosh, @cuddlefaery, you just reminded me of one from childhood!

    The greeter at our local Sam's Club was a retired opera singer, and he would often serenade specific people as they entered the store, and sometimes even made up songs for them. 🎶

    Once when I was little, I walked in carrying my new teddy bear from Christmas, and he asked me what her name was. 🧸 I told him Rosebud, but he heard Rosebush, and started loudly crooning, "Rosebuuuuuush" for all to hear. 🌷

    I always loved walking through that giant warehouse of a building, and hearing his powerful voice carry all the way from the front.

    He was even in the paper, once. 📰 I miss that sweet old man. 😊 What good times...

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

    🦄 Enthusiast 🏞 Travel Fiend 🐘 Animal Lover

    Happy summer vibes! 🐬 🎹

  • cuddlefaerycuddlefaery

    @SunsetSnuggles that's awesome :) I'd love hearing someone singing.

    One of the other long timers sings...but it's because he's perpetually high on weed and swings between the MJ zombie mode and being hyped up on caffeine 🤣 I wouldn't call his sing-songing pleasant to hear, though. Dude's gotta be at least 50-something now, but still acts the same as he did back when he was a college kid.

  • TR23TR23

    I’m good at puns, so I would definitely engage back and forth if I encountered these guys.

  • Erin_Elle_Erin_Elle_

    @TheFunCartel Wowza! I would love to read your memoir. ☺️

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    @Erin_Elle_ I would say a good part of my life is boring like everyone else’s…but yes I have had some amazing events that happened both good and bad that aren’t that common.

    I still haven’t used any of my stories about the 4 weeks I was a runaway just before I got the commissary job and made friends with an Outlaws Motorcycle gang member and we were on a fishing boat. I will say yes, I was a handful as a teenager and was sent halfway across the country to my Aunt and Uncle for my senior year who trained cops in self-defense and had a concrete company because I had a brush with the law and they sent me there to straighten me out.

    I loved my Aunt and Uncle but I loved Mary Beth more. She was the girl I basically got in trouble for so she wouldn’t . Our parents had arranged for both of us to go to a Catholic school 10 miles away which had a reputation for straightening kids out but in reality was a free-for-all of crime, depravity and fun. But sending me away to my Aunt and Uncle blew that up. I was looking forward to a Mary Beth and I driving ourselves to school. We were very tight. We both turned out surprisingly well despite very anti-social behavior.

  • Maverick07Maverick07

    I was waiting to be served ant the meat counter and so was a woman. An employee showed up and asked who was first, but we kind of got there at the same time. I challenged her for a rock-paper-scissors duel then. I win but she was smiling. A quick, innocent and fun interaction.

  • cuddlefaerycuddlefaery

    @Maverick07 what a wonderful way to make someone's day brighter with just a simple act 😊

  • Maverick07Maverick07

    @cuddlefaery I know, right? The simple things 🤗

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