Impossible To Do The Rice Thing

I am serving a lady customer who has very specific requirements for how her groceries should be bagged. Due to some sort of back problem, none of the bags can weigh more than a pound or two, and she always asks that the groceries be quadruple bagged so she can be sure they won’t break. This “uber-bag” should consist of two paper bags on the inside and two plastic bags on the outside.

On this particular day, she has decided to buy a five-pound bag of rice. I know immediately there will be nothing I can do, so I put the little five-pound bag of rice inside an uber-bag and wait for the inevitable.

Customer: “Ugh! This bag is too heavy! I told you to not make the bags so heavy! How do you expect me to carry this?!“

Me: “Ma’am, if you would like, I would be happy to rip that single bag of rice in half and put it in eight bags.”

Silence for the rest of the transaction…