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levertovfan) wrote2006-03-27 10:20 am
levertovfan) wrote2006-03-27 10:20 am
Leafy greens humor
The oddest thing to happen to me recently was at the Harris Teeter, the local grocery store. I was in the self-checkout isle and was trying to ring up my kale (it's a leafy green). The self-checkout computer didn't have an option for kale under the "greens" section of self-checkout options, so I was going through the computer trying to see if kale was listed somewhere else in produce, and the African American clerk monitoring all the self-checkout machines was becoming increasingly aware that I was having a problem. So I finally decided that since kale cost the same as collard greens and was roughly analogous, that I would tap the collard greens button. Then it asked me for the number of collard greens I was getting, which was a somewhat difficult question, because one doesn't usually count the number of greens in a bunch as though they are apples or oranges. The clerk called to me and asked if something was wrong. I explained about the kale and she came over and typed in the code for kale. However, since I'd already pressed the collard greens button, the computer interpreted that code for kale to mean that I was purchasing around 4,000 individual collard greens. An electronic receipt came up for $77 worth of collard greens. The clerk's eyes bugged out and we both started laughing, me since I had a pretty small bunch of kale, the clerk since, well, she works at a grocery store, which is apt to be pretty boring, and some very white girl just came along and nearly paid for an imaginary truckload of collard greens. We ultimately figured it out with the help of an amused co-worker of the clerk's and I paid my $.25 for my kale.
Wow, that story took a long time for me to tell and probably did not reward the amount of time it took you, dear reader, to read through it with a proportional amount of laughter.
Other than that, very few odd or interesting things have been happening in my day-to-day life. Working in the bookstore is good. I've been watching the first half of Battlestar Galactica season 2 on Netflix and it is excellent. I've been figuring out the move and am pretty happy with the solutions I've come up with for the moving itself, although I've got a lot of stuff to do between wanting to have a car when I'm in Minnesota, searching for housing, taxes, and health insurance.
I have occasional doubts about whether or not I'm making this move for the right reasons versus the wrong ones. Moving back to MSP is retreating to what is familiar, which maybe I shouldn't be doing at this point in my life. On the other hand, could I take moving again to a whole new place? And then, what about remaining in DC? It's what makes sense in terms of job-finding and, with the exception of sometimes when I've felt unsafe (crime, the threat of terrorism on the metro and on the Pentagon, heavy military and police presence), I've been reasonably happy here up until mid-December. Still, living in a place where you feel an increasing urge to get the hell out of can't be a good thing.
Wow, that story took a long time for me to tell and probably did not reward the amount of time it took you, dear reader, to read through it with a proportional amount of laughter.
Other than that, very few odd or interesting things have been happening in my day-to-day life. Working in the bookstore is good. I've been watching the first half of Battlestar Galactica season 2 on Netflix and it is excellent. I've been figuring out the move and am pretty happy with the solutions I've come up with for the moving itself, although I've got a lot of stuff to do between wanting to have a car when I'm in Minnesota, searching for housing, taxes, and health insurance.
I have occasional doubts about whether or not I'm making this move for the right reasons versus the wrong ones. Moving back to MSP is retreating to what is familiar, which maybe I shouldn't be doing at this point in my life. On the other hand, could I take moving again to a whole new place? And then, what about remaining in DC? It's what makes sense in terms of job-finding and, with the exception of sometimes when I've felt unsafe (crime, the threat of terrorism on the metro and on the Pentagon, heavy military and police presence), I've been reasonably happy here up until mid-December. Still, living in a place where you feel an increasing urge to get the hell out of can't be a good thing.
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