Checkout competiveness

I am still smarting from a shopping trip this evening where we were beaten so badly in the checkout queue.

We have builders in our house and they need tea and biscuits. While not wanting to stereotype people, we didn't think they would enjoy either the Chai Tea or Lapsang Souchong.

Usually our groceries are delivered, especially the cleaning stuff, but tonight was an emergency shop - cleaning supplies and motivational foods.

The woman in front of us in the queue had

1. Three bottles wine, two white one red.
2. one red pepper
3. Half a cucumber
4. pack of small mushrooms

A high scoring basket I think you will agree.

Stacked up against this we had

1. Tons of cleaning supplies
2. 8 packs of biscuits
3. Toilet paper
4. 4 frozen pizza
5. Two litre organic semi-skimmed milk
6. salmon (not sure if it was wild)

Our only items that had a positive score were #5 and #6, and then only marginally because the milk wasn't skinny and the salmon may not have been wild. This against a very tidy basket of items - all scoring very highly.

I wanted to make eye contact with her, by way of saying "This isn't who we are - we are shopping for others with a lessor taste" - but I think she was to snobbish and consequently pretended not to notice.

I despise snobbery, who does she think she is ? Someone should tell her we are not "what we eat" or "what we buy" !

And to be quite honest some of us are above all this anyway.