ewwww moment in grocery checkout line

[grasswire]

Last night I was at the supermarket behind a woman who was wearing very low-rise denim shorts. Very.

She had her wallet up on the checkout spot, doing the transaction. When finished, she folded the large-ish wallet and jammed it inside her shorts into her crotch.

Took her groceries and left. The clerk and I were both kinda sickened by this, wondering how many cooties are left on the public spaces when this wallet comes out of the crotch and onto counters.

!!

[rug]

1. There are bad cooties, and then there are good cooties.

[grasswire]

2. I don't want ANY cooties from person unknown

Especially where I might put a food item down.

[derby378]

3. That's my cue to move to the next checkout line

Until they thoroughly disinfect that one register, that is. How freakin' rude.

[freshwest]

4. Are you sure? I put a very small wallet in my front pocket. I'd never put anything in my underwear.

[grasswire]

6. large wallet, shoved down inside her very low-rise crotch

right in the front. when she walked, it wiggled back and forth.

[freshwest]

10. Did she look intoxicated, oblivious or her pants had no pockets? I'm clueless about why.

And I don't want to make any assumptions. We have a fgenerally well-respected personal space rule up here, and don't look at each other closely in the stores. So I may be missing something myself. But I don't think you have anything to worry about as far as cooties or lice or whatever. I don't think many people have those anymore.

[grasswire]

12. sure, but by cooties I meant biological material of some kind, not critters.

I don't want to be judgmental either about her situation or her appearance. She had a grocery bag in each hand, and could have dropped her wallet in there if she had no pockets.

I figure this is akin to a man shoving his wallet in his butt crack. I wouldn't like that either, if he then put the wallet on the checkout where my wallet was going to be.

[Kali]

16. most people's hands are probably grosser and more contaminated than that wallet

especially if they were holding the handle of a grocery cart that previously contained a child

still inside of shorts is a strange place to store any belongings not actually attached to one's body. breast cleavage is more secure:rofl:

or MAYBE she had one of those passport security pocket thingies in there???

[BlueJazz]

5. Would you like your food with or without >>

[KamaAina]

7. This thread is useless without pictures.

:evilgrin:

[rug]

8. Be careful what you wish for.

[KamaAina]

11. That's a guy, doofus.

Hence, still useless. :P

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. Now, when you say "jammed".... nt

[Beaverhausen]

13. I hate it when people put their small kids on the checkstand

I want to yell "get that kid's butt off of where I'm putting food, etc. that's gross!"

[grasswire]

14. I saw a lady bring a bird into the self check and put it down where....

....people put their food! It tottered around while she rang her stuff up. Ugh!

And I've seen a man in the same store with a huge lizard on his shoulder.

What is it with this?

[freshwest]

15. Wow, what an interesting neighborhood. I like the earthy quality of yours. Sometimes we have birds..

That fly in from the outside in the big high ceilinged stores. It appears they go for the birdseed and not the produce. Never seen any droppings or anything. The employees generally get them to leave by turning the lights out.

But honestly, you have no expectations of perfect sanitation in a store, not even in the checkout line. People sneeze, cough, don't wash their hands (well, some of them probably don't), and foods spill and are imperfectly wiped up by clerks. Believe it or not, a little bit of germs keeps your immune system well-informed, but not necessarily compromise it.

Remember that you are walking around with millions of organisms on your own skin, shedding skin cells and germs yourself. Keep your immune system healthy and don't fret, it'll kill you. Good luck.

[grasswire]

19. yeah, but salmonella from a lizard can make ya sick.

Very sick.

[Kceres]

20. That's not as unsanitary as putting raw chicken on the checkout counter.

Raw, bloody, leaking meat and chicken on the automatic belt thingy where the next person will put their produce always slays me. No wonder there are so many cases of food poisoning.

[Kaleva]

17. There was a story here not long ago about a dude taking a dump in a grocery aisle.

"Cleanup in aisle 4!"

He had to go bad, ran into the store to ask to use a restroom, was told there wasn't one for the public to use and he got mad and got even. Then he went to jail.

[retread]

18. Obviously she is using a MIT Proverbial Wallet, specifically the Bumble Bee.

Just place it in a "strategic" location and go on a spending spree!!

http://eco.media.mit.edu/static/proverbialwallets/index.html

[freshwest]

21. That's hilarious! Especially the last part with the picture of the fat wallet.

"The wallet swells and shrinks to reflect the balance in your accounts. Your assets will be on display to attract potential mates."

[Kat45]

22. That's gross. Hope she had underwear on or it's grosser still.

I was thinking about that the other day when I thought of going to Target to see if I could find some shorts. I couldn't help but wonder if the young women, teens in particular, are wearing thongs--or no underwear at all--when they try them on. Got me nervous.