Give me your possibly spoiled food for free!

[Becks]

Some people.

[greensinestro]

Some people never cease to amaze me any more. First of all, if she wanted this corn for free and found it in a cart in the parking lot, she should have just put them in her car and been done with it. Second, how do we know she didn't just pick these ears of corn out and then make up a story that she found them? This is why even grocery stores need security cameras, because of asshats like this. I'm kind of surprised she didn't just say "I'm leaving" and cause you all more headache with a cartload of go-backs.

[depechemodefan]

I can imagine if it was bagged, and the person who bought them left them in the cart and went home, and came back and said, "I left them in the cart out in the sun, and the birds might have gotten at them. Can you give me three new ears of corn?"

Or imagine that someone was getting corn and putting it in the basket. This SC sees a basket with corn in it and while the original person of the basket has her back turn to get more corn, this SC grabs the basket, and since the corn was there already, it's free!

[Argabarga]

I hereby lay claim to the entire store, as I was just driving down the street today, made a left turn, and BAM! there it was! I found it so it's mine!

[LifeCarnie]

I don't get that it's "bad" though. You can tell if birds have been at it and just sitting in the sun's not going to make it spoil.

You can tell if the birds have been at it. But you can't tell if some freak stuck a syringe full of cyanide or something else into it.

D: You are in a store, ma'am. When you shop, you look for things. You find them. That's how shopping works.

Given the context of the situation that is the single funniest line I've ever read on this site.

Good for the supervisor. A lot of CSR's would have froze up and stumbled for a reply before saying that.

If you want to act stupid, you should expect to be treated like you're stupid.

[MadMike]

Here's a scary story: There was a guy who ran his own small produce shop who used to come in and buy up all the stuff we were about to throw out. He'd call ahead, and the manager would have someone pack it all up for him, and load it into his van for him when he arrived.

Needless to say, I never bought anything from that shop.

[Pagan]

See, it was in the middle of the parking lot, and there's a Mc. Duck's in the same lot. We have seagulls, pigeons, other birds, etc. flying around, so we just made a guess to try and avoid having a lawsuit if she did eat it and got Avian Flu for all we knew. I doubt the sun would've done much more than scorch it, it was just whatever else was out there.

See, we don't have seagulls. We've got pigeons, but none that I've seen have been bright enough to have gotten to something left in a cart!

Avian Flu would be the least of our worries around here. What with Hantavirus, West Nile, plague, rabies on occasion....

You can tell if the birds have been at it. But you can't tell if some freak stuck a syringe full of cyanide or something else into it.

Do you know how big a bore needle you would need to get penetration on an ear of corn? I'm looking at 22G right now and no way would it be getting in!

[Ironclad Alibi]

The real reason he wouldn't let her have the corn wasn't that she might have been lying, or that the corn was spoiled, but was he did not want to reinforce SC behavior.

However, if a seagull was trying to get the corn, he'd probably be successful.

[Becks]

Mike, that's just beyond disturbing.

[XCashier]

However, if a seagull was trying to get the corn, he'd probably be successful.

Now THAT'S chutzpah!

[edible_hat]

I hereby lay claim to the entire store, as I was just driving down the street today, made a left turn, and BAM! there it was! I found it so it's mine!

That's ok, because the store's (former) owner just found your house.

[Dreamstalker]

See, we don't have seagulls. We've got pigeons, but none that I've seen have been bright enough to have gotten to something left in a cart!

Roadrunners? My dad was once waiting for us outside the Century Rio (he was picking my mom and I up from the Amtrak station) and a huge roadrunner came waddling up to him and stood there waiting for food. Dad thinks a lot of people fed it popcorn, so it came to equate anyone sitting outside with food.

[Pagan]

Roadrunners? My dad was once waiting for us outside the Century Rio (he was picking my mom and I up from the Amtrak station) and a huge roadrunner came waddling up to him and stood there waiting for food. Dad thinks a lot of people fed it popcorn, so it came to equate anyone sitting outside with food.

Ah, yes, roadrunners! I went out to my car one day and there's one standing in the middle of the hood. We had a stare-down. There's a few that live around where I work and they walk up to the windows and look in like they want to take a class. And there's been quite a few particularly chubby ones over at CNM's Westside Campus.

[Kogarashi]

Gahhhhh evil...evil...evil

sorry-but anyone who knows anything about food production should know that once you strip the husk from corn all the nice happy little sugars(that make it "sweet corn")begin to oxidixe into unsweet starches. You should never husk corn until you are ready to cook it. try this experiment-remove the husk from one ear of corn at the store-mar it somehow when you get home(cut the "stem" at a point or something)-remove the husk from the rest you plan on cooking right before cooking-try both the earlier husked corn and the just before cooking husked corn-there will be a massive difference in taste.

And yet customers will husk at the store anyway, so why not provide them with a trash receptacle? At the first grocery store I worked at, we didn't have such a bin, and customers would just toss the husks onto the pile of corn. It got so that if the produce people didn't clean it up regularly, customers would have to shift aside piles of husks to get at the corn.

My mom never husked corn until we were about to cook it, though, and it's a habit I picked up from her long before I found out that it actually preserves the flavor.

[Dreamstalker]

There's a few that live around where I work and they walk up to the windows and look in like they want to take a class. And there's been quite a few particularly chubby ones over at CNM's Westside Campus.

I got "adopted" by a prairie dog when I was in the CSF apartments (little guy hung out under the outside stairs next to my unit, and would happily devour any old salad fixings I had). Apparently there's a whole town of them underneath campus.