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Friday, October 14, 2005 |
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i went to the pathmark yesterday. i was obviously having some sort of brain
lapse, or was feeling overwhelmed because i was running low on cat litter and
it's the only local place one can buy it in 25 pound bags. yet each time i go
to the gowanus pathmark something very annoying and obnoxious happens. this
time was no exception. as always, the workers in the aisles, those placed around the store, were extremely helpful and friendly. they know where everything is, help you look for hard-to-find items. hell, another hellish trip there began with the manager hunting through as many places as he could for a mere can of sterno. but this is the evil pathmark's bait-and-switch: after you've filled your wagon you have to go to the checkout, and that's where the problems always begin. so, there i was with my cart. veggies, a stack of canned beans (they were on sale for 44 cents!), a 10 pound bag of cat food, and THREE large 25 pound bags of cat litter. i choose a register, the only one where the cashiers bag your groceries for you, got on line, then lifted all THREE large 25 pound bags of cat litter onto the conveyor, along with the 12 cans of beans. before i could get any of my veggies on the belt, the cashier told me that her line was closed, and that i should go to the next register over because that's where she was moving to. so, i moved all THREE large 25 pound bags of cat litter, and my 12 cans of beans, to the next register. no sooner had the third bag of litter been lifted, another cashier walked by and said, "who told you to come to this line? what are you doing on this line?" i said that the original cashier, and i pointed, had told me to go there. then the mean cashier looked at the original cashier and said, with a tone, "why are you moving people to the next line?" the original cashier told her why we were moving and the mean cashier walked away and opened up a new line. five minutes later, with my SEVENTY FIVE pounds of cat litter on the belt, the cashier is still scanning items for her last couple of customers. then she needed a price check. at this point, i hrealized that not only had been in the line that wasn't really a line for ten minutes, this was now a bag your own groceries line. i'd made friends withe people behind me, and i grumbled under my voice that there was no way in hell i was moving my THREE large 25 pound bags of cat litter one more time. and then i said something to the effect of `this is why never come to the pathmark, because it sucks here'. they concurred. finally, 'our' cashier came to the register, and she needed a manager to come help her unlock the place where the cash goes, so she could put the cash drawer in. then, just as she was about to turn on that conveyor belt, a weird little bad man said he needed to get by me on the line. i had to pull my fricking cart out, so he could slip through. i asked him what he was doing, and he said he was a pathmark employee (i guess i didn't see he was wearing one of those polyester pathmark pinneys) and was going to the cashier to cash his paycheck. seriously. finally, she started scanning. then she picked up a bag of cat litter and it broke and the litter spilled everywhere. she didn't know what to do, so she just stood there holding the leaking bag. she asked me if i still wanted it, and i said no. she asked the cashier at the register next to her what to do, and they had to call a manager to take away the litter because she had no place for it. then, because she had no broom, she started sweeping the cat litter off the scanner with a magazine. a few minutes later, all my groceries had moved to the bagging area, and both of my zucchinis had bits of litter on them.
i then lifted my TWO 25-lb bags of cat litter and the cat food and then
bagged all the beans, and ran the hell out of there. please remind me of this story
next time i choose to go to the pathmark. |
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