Rant: We are banning the wrong stuff

[Platapus]

/rant on

For the sake of our country, we don't need to ban Muslims, we don't need to ban people carrying electronics on airplanes.

We need to ban people from using cell phones in grocery stores!!!

I was in the grocery store on Sunday and there were way too many people standing around either talking or texting on their cell phones BLOCKING THE AISLES!!! It is crowded enough without these inconsiderate morons.

Are they truly that clueless or just inconsiderate? Don't block one or worse two aisles when people are trying to shop. I guess they are just that important, way more important then the rest of us just trying to get the shopping done.

Yikes!

/rant off

I feel a little bit better now.

[Jimbuna]

I'll hold my breath and count to ten because you are referring to one of my major annoyances.

[Onkel Neal]

And what about Muslims on cell phones in grocery stores?

[Sailor Steve]

While it never affected me directly, I've always had a peeve concerning people who talk on their phones while checking out. The clerks deserve our attention while they are trying to help us.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

And what about Muslims on cell phones in grocery stores?

Put them on airlines, where they belong.

[Reece]

Remember 9/11.

[vienna]

/rant on

Back when cell phones first began to become ubiquitous, I was in a local fast food restaurant and there was a long line. I was about two or three persons behind a guy yapping away on his cell, loud enough to hear it was a very banal conversation. The line moved up slowly and finally cell yapper got to the order counter. He held up his hand in a sort of "wait a minute" gesture to the clerk, and said to the person on the other end "OK, I'm at the counter, what do you want? What? Oh, well, they have..." and proceeded to start reciting the whole of the place's extensive menu. There was an audible reaction from all the rest of the people in the line behind him; I couldn't begin to describe the glaring look given by the clerk who had had to endure the seemingly unending line of customers only to have that jerk pull such a stunt. With admirable restraint, the clerk told the jerk to step aside, let the other, prepared, customers make their orders, and, once he and his cell-mate had made up their minds, to get back in line at the end of the line. This elicited a rousing round of applause from the other customers in line. The result was predictable: the cell jerk took severe, and loud, umbrage in a sort of "How dare you!" attitude. The manager came up to the counter to see what was going on, listened to the clerk's and customers' accounts and told the cell jerk to go to the back of the line. The cell jerk stormed out of the restaurant, followed by the cheers and jeers of the customers...

Blocking the aisles is one thing; having to wait at the checkout because some cell jerk won't stop his/her yapping and deal with finalizing their purchase is just as bad. I say there should be a mandatory installation of localized cell jammers at all check-out counters!...

/rant off


Oh, and, again, Platapus For President!...



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[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Originally Posted by Platapus

/rant on

For the sake of our country, we don't need to ban Muslims, we don't need to ban people carrying electronics on airplanes.

We need to ban people from using cell phones in grocery stores!!!

I was in the grocery store on Sunday and there were way too many people standing around either talking or texting on their cell phones BLOCKING THE AISLES!!! It is crowded enough without these inconsiderate morons.

Are they truly that clueless or just inconsiderate? Don't block one or worse two aisles when people are trying to shop. I guess they are just that important, way more important then the rest of us just trying to get the shopping done.

Yikes!

/rant off

I feel a little bit better now.

/Rant on
As a stock clerk who works for Publix (for those of you who don't know what a stock clerk is I'm guy who puts the product on the shelves), I do find it annoying when people block the aisle either when they're on their cellphones or in some cases some old people who just have to stop and chat while I'm trying to get my three floats of cereal done. And yes in some cases people are just that clueless or they just plain don't give a crap. I've been asked really stupid questions like "Where is the oatmeal?", and this is from a person who has just walked right past the oatmeal without even bothering to look, or the customer just makes the assumption that because three different cereals from General Mills is on that just has to mean that all the General Mills cereals are on sale when there not, but if the customer doesn't bother to read the sales tag or ask an associate then they shouldn't blame us for them being too lazy to read the sales tag.
Or when a customer goes to the deli counter, gets a sub, takes two bites of it and then leaves in on a random freaking shelf without throwing it out or even bothering to pay for it, or taking an item from on aisle and just leaving it at the other end of the store. Or my favorite thing, finding random things in the freezers. I've found a soup can, bottles of milk, cans of some fruit drink, dish washing detergent, and even a bag of diapers, yes you read that right diapers... in the freezer. So yes, people can be inconsiderate, clueless, careless, care more about themselves then any one else, and just plain don't give a darn.

/rant off

If we could just ban stupidity that would fix a lot of things but that's not going to happen in the history of forever, but we can ban stupid people with cellphones!

[ikalugin]

Smart phone zombies everywhere

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by vienna

Oh, and, again, Platapus For President!...<O>

/Tweet on .../Tweet off

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

If we could just ban stupidity that would fix a lot of things but that's not going to happen in the history of forever, but we can ban stupid people with cellphones!

That's not possible because God loves stupid people, he must do or why did he make so many of them?

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

That's not possible because God loves stupid people, he must do or why did he make so many of them?

These are the same sort of people who will video a hurricane coming in and making landfall when every other smart person has left the affected area days ago. Still, others thinks it's great to go surfing in the huge waves that proceed the actual hurricane. This is how he wipes out stupid people in a geographical area.

I think we all have had issues and experiences with people and their annoying cell phone use. How many people here have seen others walking and texting and walk right out in a busy street or thoroughfare without looking and almost get hit with a car ? How many here have gone to a restaurant and have seen people there not talking but texting others or maybe the ones seated there ?

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

These are the same sort of people who will video a hurricane coming in and making landfall when every other smart person has left the affected area days ago. Still, others thinks it's great to go surfing in the huge waves that proceed the actual hurricane. This is how he wipes out stupid people in a geographical area.

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My favorite "Why are some people so stupid?" situations are when you see on the TV news reports about some region being devastated by tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, mudslides, wildfires, etc., and the reports note whatever area it is, it has a long history of that particular type of disaster. Sure as the sun rises, the reporter will ask whatever Gomer has just had his home demolished (often not for the first time) what they are going to do now: "Well, I'm a gonna rebuild again right here." Somehow, I think most rational people would rather much tend to avoid building homes in a place with a name like, say, for example, "Tornado Alley"...

Well, if they do buy it in the next disaster, they'll most likely be on a cell phone when it happens, live steaming as the twister sucks them into oblivion...



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[STEED]

Please do not get me going on about Supermarkets.

[AVGWarhawk]

Cellphones=electronic leashes for the masses. The key to doing stupid things and doing it well. The key to distraction.