Rant: Extreme Egg Checkers

[Walkin Horse]

Not a grocery store problem but a rude problem. The people who jump into elevators before anyone can get off. My mother taught me as a kid not to crowd the door and let people off. Lately I've been visiting a hospital a lot. I'm surprised at the number of people who charge in before I can get out. Even if I'm alone when the door opens there's someone set to jump in before I can get past them.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I recently stayed in a Holiday Express in Alamosa.
Up on the third floor.
I hadn't ridden an elevator since the last time a motel put me up on the third floor.

 

[rubiranch]

I also cut the grocery store cart riders some slack.
Some folks can walk a short distance, like over to a cart.
But after shopping they may only be able to to walk a shorter distance.

Yep, I totally agree.

 

[LVSteve]

My wife is an extreme date checker. Not just for eggs, everything in the store. She will take 2 or 3 off the front of the row to find the best date. Especially milk.

I check the dates because the stores in Vegas can be pretty slack on getting rid of a past due stuff.

With milk it makes sense for me to get the latest date because I'm the only one in the household that uses it. Mind you, the half gallon (tall) jugs will last way past the sell by date if refrigerated properly and only opened a couple of times a day. That's how it is with the milk I take to work.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Just ask "What floor?" and then hit all the buttons on your way out . . .

Not a grocery store problem but a rude problem. The people who jump into elevators before anyone can get off. My mother taught me as a kid not to crowd the door and let people off. Lately I've been visiting a hospital a lot. I'm surprised at the number of people who charge in before I can get out. Even if I'm alone when the door opens there's someone set to jump in before I can get past them.

 

[NYlakesider]

Not a grocery store problem but a rude problem. The people who jump into elevators before anyone can get off. My mother taught me as a kid not to crowd the door and let people off. Lately I've been visiting a hospital a lot. I'm surprised at the number of people who charge in before I can get out. Even if I'm alone when the door opens there's someone set to jump in before I can get past them.

A few years back we took a 16 day cruise to Alaska.

It also had a 100 people from a foreign country that spoke no English except for two chaperones and they also had a attitude!

They were nasty and always in the way. They traveled like a school of fish. Thought nothing of stopping at the top of the escalator or right in the middle of a passage way or any other door way.. Went to the entertainment and talked in their language for about 20 minuets then left.They also had a few more interesting behaviors. (its actually a wonder that none of then got thrown overboard!)

I told you all this to set the stage. This crew did a awful lot to ruin a expensive cruise. Now back to the elevator. They would stand with their bellies right against the door and when the door opened just push right in and not let any off. I took this nonsense as long as I could. When I was inside the elevator and this mob tried to walk on and I had to get off I just walked right threw them. My wife and most other people (who were as disgusted as me followed my lead.) Stepped on a lot of feet and as most of them wore flip flops interesting noises followed in a foreign language.

Some on here might not like how I handled it but you were not there and had to put up with this ignorant nasty bunch of foreigners.

 

[Walkin Horse]

Tonight I stayed right in front of the door and was ready to push my way out. But it seemed a slow night without much traffic in the hospital.

 

[Aggie1906]

EEC What a concept!

I'd have been a marketing major, but my draft board would not give me one more term.
Jeez, I sometimes pop the carton and give 'em a shake.
Good enough for me.
Yes, they have moved stuff around to make you look.
Do you guys have guns?

 

[gman51]

Getting groceries is similar to using a restaurant drive through window. A few times the cashier left one bag of groceries on the spin around. Then I get home and wonder where this and that are. Like the drive through I need check what I got or didn't get in my cart or bag before I leave the store.

 

[italiansport]

Unfortunately, I live in a place that often visited by foreigners. The rudeness exhibited by these people is a sight to behold. One thing for sure is I'll NEVER visit their Countries.
Jim

 

[oneounceload]

number of people who are seeminly oblivious to anyone around them

There's a term for those folks: "Obliviots"

 

[oneounceload]

Food for thought:

Here's why you have to refrigerate eggs in the U.S. but not in Europe - Los Angeles Times

While my eggs reside in the fridge, I take them out about 1/2 hour before I cook them to allow them to come to room temperature - they seem to cook up better that way.

 

[mike from st pete]

I too live in an area full of tourists. The rude, crass behavior is phenomenal. Specially those foreigners from NYC and NJ.

 

[swsig]

Why do you let it annoy you??

It's not the egg-checking itself that annoys me, it's the rudeness that comes with it. In my store, they simultaneously block access to both the eggs and the milk while they're plying their trade. I wouldn't care if they filled their basket with egg cartons while they sorted through them, as long as they moved out of the way. But by failing to do so, these yolkels put me in a fowl mood.

 

[hoc9sw]

It's not the egg-checking itself that annoys me, it's the rudeness that comes with it. In my store, they simultaneously block access to both the eggs and the milk while they're plying their trade. I wouldn't care if they filled their basket with egg cartons while they sorted through them, as long as they moved out of the way. But by failing to do so, these yolkels put me in a fowl mood.

I shop a bit at the base, and they actually set up a "barrier" - you leave your cart there and pass forward to the meat / dairy cases to pick out your stuff.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

While my eggs reside in the fridge, I take them out about 1/2 hour before I cook them to allow them to come to room temperature - they seem to cook up better that way.

Problem with that is I don't want them 30 minutes before I want them and 30 minutes before I want them,I'm not hungry but when I want them, want them now and not 30 minutes from now and if I pull them out now, I may not want them in 30 minutes-or I might have decided to go for waffles instead.

 

[Steve912]

Falls in same category as thinking a "brake check" is even worthy of
consideration, for tailgaters.

Carrying concealed is unwise for people with multitudes of hot-button
issues.

 

[soFlaNative]

Problem with that is I don't want them 30 minutes before I want them and 30 minutes before I want them,I'm not hungry but when I want them, want them now and not 30 minutes from now and if I pull them out now, I may not want them in 30 minutes-or I might have decided to go for waffles instead.

Sounds about right.
Why would I want a warm egg in my beer?

 

[Rustyt1953]

I'd like a blindfold, please.

 

[kamloops67]

About 3 years ago i stepped in to assist an elderly couple who were being harangued and threatened by a younger man who had been drinking
He was accusing them of excessive egg checking hahaha not even kidding here ...
The older couple were badly frightened , and it made me sick that there was a small group gathering around them doing nothing .
Afterward i was thanked by a number of people and had my groceries wheeled out to my truck by a security guard who congratulared me the entire time lol
Drunk wasnt expecting to face a 200 lb construction worker , he felt confident going up against a couple 85 years olds though...