Last weekend I travelled to Spokane with my sister to do a family thing. While we were there we went to the local Fred Meyer. My sister was getting a box of granola bars and some foundation. When we got the checkout line the woman put the foundation in a plastic bag and set it up on the little counter between us and the register, like they do for things they think you want right away. Then she started to put the granola bars into a larger grocery-sized bag when H-star said to the cashier, "Oh it is ok, you can just put them in one bag."
The cashier, who is SO very SpoCouver (SpoVegas, SpoKansas, you only really get the reference if you are from these here parts) seemed incredulous.
"Really?" she asked.
"No problem," the sis replied.
So then the cashier took the bag with the foundation and tossed it into the larger bag and then the granola bars and handed off the double set of bags with the receipt. Is it possible that this woman didn't understand that we were trying to be more environmentally friendly? Is there some makeup-can't-touch-food-in-a-box law that I don't know about? I just stood there with my mouth open.
Weird.
This isn't the only truly bizarre thing that happened while we were there, it is just the first thing I have time to write about. More later. Just what is in the water over there?
Posted by kerewin at June 13, 2005 11:20 PM