From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Remember  Tuesday, when  Roger House asked plainitively:   
   > On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 5:47:25 PM UTC-5, Les wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:27 -0800, Snidely    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> Roger House scribbled something on Wednesday the 1/27/2021:   
   >>>> ...except that I can't say this stuff directly TO the customers. I work at   
   >>>> a  Kroger store that has a fuel island/center, I work at/in said fuel   
   >>>> center.   
   >>> So they moved you off of carts?   
   >> This discussion about fuel islands and shopping carts reminds me of   
   >> something I recently read:   
   >> "The world is a peculiar place. Tottery old ladies, people you   
   >> wouldn't trust to navigate a grocery cart, are heading two-ton cars in   
   >> your direction at speeds of seventy miles per hour.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Why do a lot of senior citizens SEEM TO like "big boat" style, (as they are   
   > sometimes referred to), 4-door, (sometimes luxury), sedan cars?  As for the   
   > "get coin change back" thing, using the example that's going around here, to   
   > me, or maybe I should say, to my mind, getting 98 cents back is *NOT* a big   
   > deal to me.  If I get 98 cents back, the world isn't going to end just   
   > because I GOT the 98 cents back and life will still go on just like it does   
   > now.   
      
   You don't ever go to the laundramat, do you?  That one extra quarter   
   makes a difference.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence   
   went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his   
   precious heavy water.   
   _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)