Re: In the supermarket

In article <00A53825.6AE08737@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
winston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing)
wrote:

*From:* winston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Winston - SSRL Central
Computing)
*Date:* Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:27:31 GMT

In article <memo.20060331162733.1904A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Dormer) writes:
So, I had just put my stuff on the conveyor belt at the checkout and
was >waiting for the person in front to be processed when a woman
came up >behind me. Before getting out her stuff, she started
looking around. I >asked her what she was looking for and it was the
blue plastic dividers >you put to separate your purchases from
everyone else's. I had already >put the only spare one on the belt
behind my stuff, ready for the next >customer. She finally spotted
it. "Oh, sorry," she said. "Most men >don't do that."

Well, I'm not most men.

Me neither; I usually do that. (Except it's black rubbery-feeling
dividers
at the places I shop that do that.)

-- Alan


Then again, I confuse people sometimes by then picking up the divider if
it's put in front of me, as in Tesco they have a slot in which you can
slide your Tesco card and I find that difficult to do if the belt starts
moving.
.