ah not in today's world I feel I have a death wish just going into the grocery store to get my substance to live.
Latest example at WallyWorld is these greeters that do the count as you enter and ask "How are you" expecting a chit-chat response. Is this the covert plan to weed out the sickies?
"No I feel like I'm the walking dead, cough cough... CALL THE COVID GESTAPO!".
How about just Welcome To WalMart... (if you have a mask on... oops dirty homemade rag)
Dumbasses when you speak you spew more germs, not just for Covid but for the common cold, it's been on the news with scientific videos, even our Governor mentioned it.
Unbelievable, since they've been cooped up with their little darling devil spawns for two weeks they feel the need to social interact with their peers and since they are wearing a who knows how fresh/sterile, certified/homemade mask, social distancing is out the window.
One of the bonus we get now is we have used masks littering our sidewalks and parking lots. They out number the used syringes 6 to 1... so that mab'be a gud thing.
I go through the self checkout *NEW* corralling and stop and wait for a clusterfluck of three or four WallyWorlders to get out of my way. Now these are none of the usual people I see at my local Ghettoville WalMart, they gotta be new hires (will go into that later, ha ha) One blond woman has her mask pulled down on her chin and says hello or good day, I ignore her and barge on by to a open self checkout biting my lip refraining from a witty comment. I guess she thinks I'm having a bad day and 'feels the need' to come over and cheer me up and gets in my face (not social distance) and say's "I said how are you today sir?" to which I replied "Is that the correct way to wear that flucking mask?" she responded "Oh I just pulled it down a second ago". I think when I responded with "You got pretty long seconds here'" is when she finally got it through here thick scull I didn't wanna chit-chat with her.
This was all after having to dodge through a pretty crowded store where no one was social distancing or following the one way arrows in the aisles. At one point of following the one way arrows to get to this hide and seek (constant shelf shuffling) of what I want to buy I meet this fairly attractive woman wearing a different WalMart shirt, you know looked to be 'Corporate', when she asked if I was finding everything OK, I was just waiting for this moment just like the John McGuinness's brickie story moment:
I told her very bluntly, "Yea I'm finding plenty of empty shelves, you got all fecking GD night to stock the shelves... why am I finding stock people and carts of stock cluttering up the aisles and refusing to social distance from me?" I didn't even wait for a lame azz 'Corporate' response, I just turned the corner and went on my one way lap.
Now about the new hires, I see on one of the tables a couple of stand-up signs saying that they are hiring and it was like "Start Work Today" too. Laff guess the regular workers are bailing out on the covid sickness/unemployment dole.
Well it didn't take long to see what kind of shitshow working for them would be like as I rounded the corner into the produce section here is some fella, not as old and grey as me but no young buck either, wras'lin a hand pallet jack with a load of 20'ish pound bags of ice stacked 'bout up to my chest through a crowded store full of people around mid-morning.
Now I didn't spend long in the store and on my way out I saw that he finally made it over to the opposite side of the store to fill the 2 stand-up ice chests which were about half full and it didn't look like he had taken much off the top which meant he was going to have to drag half the load back to wherever he came from. That's electric ride on forklift type work to be done on the third shift. fluck'in stooopid.
Same goes for the younger guy I come upon in the water jug aisle, hand pallet jack stacked high with him un-boxing gallon jugs of water and placing them one by one on the shelves. These are the type of shelves he was hand placing them on, ooops they can't electric forklift the stuff on the shelves because of the narrow placement/design no room to maneuver.
I take it these are the empty bulk toilet paper shelves... but I can't remember as these shelves have been empty for many months well before all the crazy virus buying started.
Then you get the 'deer in the headlight shoppers' you know the ones... it's like they have never shopped at a grocery before ever in they're lifetime, staring at a shelf trying to figure out what they want.
I had to get milk, didn't really wanna go out but I was starting to dip into my hurricane milk for coffee. Go to the milk wall... middle age guy standing back staring at the milk, OK I'm not in a hurry but after 60 seconds of no movement I just yelled at him "Hey mate, take a feck'in picture with your phone and go outside to study it and figure out what you want, IT'S FUK"IN MILK!"
I'm surprised I haven't been trespassed from the store. he he.
But on a positive note, it seems that my 1 star bad Google review of the Sav-A-Lot in the hood worked as I stopped in there when I was foraging for a couple of Dollar Tree items that I wanted and it's sort of right next door. There were only 3 people in the store in the afternoon, no problem social distancing, Larry The Cable Guy ribs shelf was empty, as were a couple of other items that I use to buy in bulk (MIA thus the bad review) but I got a pretty full cart to make the trip worthwhile and low an behold the Jump-O-Lean place next door was shuttered up, so I didn't have to dodge any screaming monkeys in the parking lot! I've been waiting for that 'FAD' place to fold up... but wait, as I was driving out I see a big banner sign saying they were moving over to the strip mall a mile or so down on the boulevard where this other (late to the party) fad jump-o-rama I take it went belly up.
I welcome the empty store blight back... LOL
