Not Using All Their Brain Meats
(There is a grocery store in town that does not allow customers to use their own bags. They also bag badly. I’ve come out of there with 12 items in 16 bags in the past. Today I bought about half a basket of stuff and sighed as the cashier bagged so many things one to a bag despite my protests.)
Me: “Wait. Please put both packages of meat in the same bag. This is getting ridiculous.”
Cashier: “We don’t bag two kinds of meat together. Cross contamination.”
Me: “They aren’t two kinds of meat. They are both beef.”
Cashier: “One is hamburger. One is roast.”
Me: “Yes. One is ground beef and the other is a chunk of beef.”
Cashier: “We don’t bag two kinds of meat together. Cross contamination.”
Me: “They are not two different kinds of meat. One is labeled ground chuck and the other is labeled chuck roast. They are both beef. They both come from cows.”
Cashier: “No, they don’t.”
Me: *totally surprised* “What? Of course they do. They are two cuts of beef, and beef is cow meat.”
Cashier: “Cows are for dairy.”
Me: “Cattle. Cows. Steers. Beef. Please just bag the meat together.”
Cashier: “We don’t bag two kinds of meat together. Cross contamination.”
Me: “Both kinds of meat came off the same animal.”
Cashier: “No, they don’t. We don’t bag two kinds of meat together. Cross contamination.”
(I just stared at her in amazement. I’m not from here. My accent makes that clear. But she spoke with a very local accent. I live two miles out of town and five miles from this store. I had to pass three huge herds of cattle to get there. How could anyone from this area not know where beef/chuck/hamburger/roast comes from?)
Question of the Week
Tell us your story about a customer who couldn't understand the most simple concept.
