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  • #1

    Rude, unwanted grocery advice

    Mild sighting, happened a few weeks ago.

    I generally don't like fruit. I'm all for eating healthy, but most fruits annoy me. Peeling/preparing them annoys me. Storing them annoys me, brings a risk of attracting fruit flies. Remembering to finish them before they go bad annoys me. Strawberries are really bad for this. Thankfully blackberries and razzberries aren't, and I don't have to peel them. Stick 'em in the fridge, grab a handfull of berry-munchies after a meal, simple and easy.

    So I was hunting for my favourite berry-fix. No razzberries today, but got lucky with the blackberries. I'd just grabbed a couple packets, when the woman next to me suddenly pipes up.

    "But the blueberries are on sale for cheaper!"

    Excuse you, but it's rather rude and improper to begin a sentence with "but". Even if the butt looks like this, err... still rude but I wouldn't mind (probably NSFW)

    Blueberries aren't on my short-list of favourite fruits, and I said as much. Which got me an incredulous look and a huff. I went on my way and, wait a minute - did she just give me a CBF??

    What was that all about? Did I hurt her feelings by dissing her favourite fruit or something? (which I hadn't, go figure) Did she think me pompous, that I thought my social station was too high up to indulge in mere blueberries, even for a discount? Or maybe she was annoyed that her wise financial counsel was ignored? Yeah I rather doubt I'll be raising capital enough to start my own Fortune 500 company with blueberry savings.

    But I have been wrong before. So I guess I should be on the lookout for the Kingsguard out to arrest me for being a mere commonor, acting above my station in indulging in royal fruit? Or maybe in years to come, I should watch out for a wrathful gloating Fortune 500 company owner? "Haha, if only you had eaten blueberries on a discount, you could have shared this great empire with me, now you are NOTHING! MUHAHAHA!!"

    Seriously, some people need to learn how to mind their own business.
    Last edited by Talon; 07-31-2012, 07:45 PM.
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  • #2
    *blinks*

    Why someone would object to a complete stranger's purchase because said stranger could've bought something cheaper is just ... mind-boggling.

    Is there any chance at all that she was talking to somebody else?

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    • #3
      I'll only eat blueberries if they are baked in something, I don't like just popping them in my mouth and munching.

      I would looked at her and said, "Well, are you going to buy them for me?"
      "No, why would I do that!"
      "Well I assumed that you were so intent on me buying something that I don't like eating, you'd be the one to pay for it. Since I don't want to waste my money on it."
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      • #4
        "If I wanted your opinion, I'd read your entrails."

        I really need to wear that t-shirt a lot more...
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        • #5
          Quoth Crossbow View Post
          "If I wanted your opinion, I'd read your entrails."

          I really need to wear that t-shirt a lot more...
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          • #6
            While the woman probably thought she was being helpful, she failed in a few ways:

            1. The way she just sort of barged in on you. It would have been better if she had at least started with "Excuse me, I noticed you are buying those blackberries..."

            2. She didn't even seem to consider that there would be a reason beyond price as to why someone would buy blackberries over the cheaper blueberries.

            3. The way she phrased her "advice". She could have said "Did you know that the blueberries are less expensive than the blackberries?"

            If she had used these suggestions, then I think she would have come off as at least less of an SC. But she didn't, so she is an SC.

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            • #7
              Quoth Crossbow View Post
              "If I wanted your opinion, I'd read your entrails."

              I really need to wear that t-shirt a lot more...
              I need to know where to purchase said shirt!!!!!
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              • #8
                I guess I've never paid attention to what other people are buying. Huh. Even if I had noticed, I think I'd have done the logical thing and a) assumed it was none of my business and b) you're picking them up for a recipe.

                Besides, if you don't like blueberries, then where's the savings when they rot because you didn't want to eat them?
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                • #9
                  that's just dumb.

                  i mean not everyone likes blueberries. and some people can't eat all types of fruits. Mom can't have anything with seeds in it cos of her diverticulosis - so blueberries are ok - but what if it was the reverse and the blueberries weren't the ones on sale?

                  seriously that weird lady has issues ... perhaps even subscriptions and leather-bound copies of all of those issues

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Talon View Post
                    What was that all about? Did I hurt her feelings by dissing her favourite fruit or something? (which I hadn't, go figure) Did she think me pompous, that I thought my social station was too high up to indulge in mere blueberries, even for a discount? Or maybe she was annoyed that her wise financial counsel was ignored? Yeah I rather doubt I'll be raising capital enough to start my own Fortune 500 company with blueberry savings.
                    Blueberries are also the newest "super food" that everybody needs to eat if you want to live.

                    I happen to prefer strawberries and raspberries myself, they go better crushed in wine.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth raudf View Post
                      I guess I've never paid attention to what other people are buying. Huh. Even if I had noticed, I think I'd have done the logical thing and a) assumed it was none of my business and b) you're picking them up for a recipe.

                      Besides, if you don't like blueberries, then where's the savings when they rot because you didn't want to eat them?
                      exactly. I dont buy into something just because its on sale. If I dont use it or dont need it and never will, I'm not wasting my money on it.

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                      • #12
                        Well, I don't like blueberries, so there!!!

                        I looooove raspberries and strawberries, though.

                        I only eat blueberries in muffins or other pastries. There's a coffee shop there that has a pastry called a Bumbleberry Tart. It has several kinds of berries baked into it and a lattice top brushed with sugar. It's yummy....
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                        • #13
                          Quoth MoonCat View Post
                          There's a coffee shop there that has a pastry called a Bumbleberry Tart. It has several kinds of berries baked into it and a lattice top brushed with sugar. It's yummy....
                          That does sound yummy!

                          I love blueberries, but I'm not going to scold someone for not liking them. Everyone's got different tastes. Many people love raspberries, but I can take or leave them. Besides, what's she complaining about? If you don't buy the blueberries, that's more for her!
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                          • #14
                            My mind is full of fluff... I don't even know what the hell she thought she was accomplishing, unless you'd just taken the last of the blackberries & she wanted them?
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                            • #15
                              See, I'd be tempted to give her a very detailed description of just what my digestive tract does when I give it things it doesn't like, particularly lots of fruits including apples, cherries and - yup! - blueberries.

                              I can almost guarantee it would be the last uninvited suggestion she would ever make...
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