Kevin's Watch

the next time you go on a beer run go to the store and grab a case of beer and a package of diapers, when you go through the check out act like you dont have enough money for everything, and put back the diapers.

I perfer the old "Grab some toilet roll from a supermarket, wave it above your head and run toward a crowd of queing shoppers screaming 'Outta the way, i'm gonna explode' "

Ah...
This really brings me back.

As early as the late '70's, I was exposed to the joys of supermarket mischief. One of my friends got his very first juvenile arrest "turkey bowling" at the A&P. One of my particular favorites was to wait until the last week of October before buying apples and disposable razor blades at the same time. (an aside, Menolly literally audibly gasped as she read this as I type it) Another good one, is to pick up a box of straws, a box of razors, and a mirror for you car visor at the same time. Ony a few clerks got it...

Of course as time progressed, our excursions became at once more elaborate and more practical. In a forty five minute trip we could fill up a cart with groceries, feed four hungry teenagers, and drain several litres worth of Redi-Whip (just the propellant, actually). The key was to leave everything in the aisle and go buy a pack of gum on the way out (Menolly's aside..."Oh boy, I think you're starting trouble right here...").

All this talk of food has made me hungry. I'll have to tell the one about the obstacle course, the sandwich, and eight Italian-American men with sticks another time.

I work in a supermarket at the moment, and as a low level lacky I get to watch all the idiots doing stuff like that without having to stop them, it brightens up my day. Keep on sticking it to the man! (and all that hippy stuff, lol.)

i worked at a grocery store when we first moved to texas. empty whippet cans in the mens room awaited me every weekend.