The banana lady

[fma_fanatic]

So I went grocery shopping. I didn't have to, but it's nice to have food, you know? Something about sustenance and all that jazz. I only have one tale of suck as everyone else was pretty pleasant, probably due to the nice day.

I went to hubby's store since they're having a decent sale on corned beef briskets and we always have it for St. Patty's Day or thereabouts. While in produce, I decided to get some bananas and waited for an older lady to finish getting her bananas.

Now one assumes that when you get bananas, you just grab a bunch that looks okay and go on with your day. Not this lady. She would pick up a bunch, pluck off a banana and toss it back into the display. She did this about 4 or 5 times, then stepped away. I took the opportunity to grab a bunch. As I did, she turned back and started shrieking at me.

OL: That's my bunch! You give that back!
Me: *ignores OL*
OL: I said give those back!
Me: *looks at the older lady* No. * walks off*

At this point, she was screaming at me about the bananas, I stole them from her and I'd better give them back, blah blah blah. I had started walking away, then stopped and turned around to her.

Me: You can have them when you pry them out of my cold dead hands. *walks off*

I still don't know what it is with people like this.

[chainedbarista]

ahh, she's the one who's been screwing up the bunches, then. jeez, buy it or don't, harpy, but don't pick them apart. stinking old bint.

[energyguy]

i'm intrigued as a Uk'er dweler what is a corned beef brisket? is it similar to a meatloaf?

[chainedbarista]

it's a beef brisket marinaded in various spices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef
pretty tasty but not the healthiest thing to eat. make sure you serve it with cabbage.

[Kogarashi]

And I think the "brisket" part refers to the preparation. At least, the brisket that my in-laws in Texas like to get has a very tasty sauce it's cooked in, in one of those big foil pans.

So she's the reason there are, like, fifty billion loose bananas all over the display! ::shakes fist:: I hate it when that's all that's left because we hang our bananas from our baker's rack, and you can't hang a bunch of loose bananas.

[dalesys]

... we hang our bananas from our baker's rack, and you can't hang a bunch of loose bananas.

Imagines a miniature gibbet, with a row of tiny nooses...

[Pagan]

And I think the "brisket" part refers to the preparation. At least, the brisket that my in-laws in Texas like to get has a very tasty sauce it's cooked in, in one of those big foil pans.

Brisket is the cut of meat. Corning is what's done to it.

[MoonCat]

I'll buy only one or two bananas sometimes, but I don't pry each individual one off of another bunch. There are always loose ones lying there that someone else pulled off, so I'll choose from those.

And how in hell were those "her" bananas when they were lying on the shelf? Old bat.

[Sheldonrs]

Kind of ironic she was buying bananas singly when her granny panties were in a bunch.

[ShinyGreenApple]

I've gotten close with one of the people in produce at my store, and holy crap, the stories he tells me about people and their bananas. He's also the same unfortunate creature from this story. He said he can be standing there, working bananas, and people will ask him doesn't he have any that are greener. If he has green ones, they'll want ripe ones and not take his word for it that those are all he has available. Sometimes as an 'experiment' (I swear the guy's a special case, LOL), he'll leave the cart of boxed bananas, go into the back, and observe from the window in the door. Sure enough, as soon as he walks away, people will rip into his unopened boxes and then get all disappointed when they realize he really wasn't hoarding bananas in their preferred state of ripeness.

I worked that department for one day during my stint on remodel. Never, ever again is all I can say.

[Falor]

I worked that department for one day during my stint on remodel. Never, ever again is all I can say.

People are crazy, and for the most part I agree with this statement, but there's one position in my company's produce department that's actually not bad. Fruit Cutter. I had to cover it for a week while we were between people (one quit, had to get a new person to replace the position the new cutter was coming from) and it absolutely rocked. Other than checking dates on what was on the shelf so the stuff I cut two days previously can be pulled and getting the stuff to cut I got to hide in the back. And play with knives. A watermelon knife is basically a sturdy, well built machete. I had fun that week.

[Kogarashi]

Brisket is the cut of meat. Corning is what's done to it.

Ah, thanks, much obliged for the correction. This Yankee is clueless when it comes to brisket (as her in-laws love to point out, though at least it's a good-natured tease).

[Pagan]

I'll buy only one or two bananas sometimes, but I don't pry each individual one off of another bunch. There are always loose ones lying there that someone else pulled off, so I'll choose from those.

I do that, too. After all, I'm only shopping for just one person and can only eat so many bananas in a week. Although sometimes I'll get a couple to purposely let over-ripen so I can make banana bread.

[bainsidhe]

I'll split apart a bunch, just because there's no way I'll eat more than two or three bananas in a week. Any more than that and they'll spoil. I admit I avoid any individual bananas lying around, they tend to be pretty bruised.

[chainedbarista]

i try to get them on the green side so i have more time before they ferment...they're yummy in oatmeal, too.