Old Miller Lite commercial:
Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith in fancy restaurant.
Butkus: Hey Bubba, what’s the soup du jour?
Bubba: I don’t know but they serve it everyday.
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I’m jealous. It was 92 in Houston yesterday. Summer is coming. NO!!
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Polish jokes? Are those still a thing?
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Second generation Pole, haven’t heard one in years. The same lame jokes are Aggie jokes in Texas and Kentuckian jokes in southern Indiana.
. . . as well as all the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux stories in SWLa.
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Those are generally pretty good shaggy dog stories. Best in an accent I can’t pull off. I can make the gumbo and steam the mudbugs though. I can keep a drink in the hand of the story-teller with the good accent.
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It’s impolite for the audience not to keep up with the story teller’s consumption. A classic for old times’ sake:
Thibodeaux runs into Boudreaux buying boudin at the gas station and asks “Haven’t seen you around, Where you all been?”
“I went to Jean Lafite’s Pirate School !”
“So what did you learn?”
“The first day they had us walk the plank, but I wasn’t very good and I slipped into the bayou and a gator bit off my leg and that’s how I got this here peg.”
“Yeah, I saw that but didn’t want to be rude and ask . . . So then what?”
“Well, the next day we practiced sword fighting but I wasn’t paying attention and the other guy cut off my hand and that’s how I got this hook.”
“I saw that too but I didn’t want to be rude and ask . . . Anything else?”
“Well,” continues Boudreaux, “a pigeon shat in my eye when I looked up and that’s how I got this here patch.”
Thibodeaux exclaims: “An itty bitty bit of pigeon poop put out your eye !?”
“Well, it was after I got my hook.”
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It’s not so much that they’re a thing, as that all of you understood what KIND of a joke they are.
My dad is Finn/Sami and the Finnish version of this type of joke is Swedish jokes.
Indeed, I’m sure everyone understood what kind of jokes to which you referred. Even Poles.
A former colleague’s spouse was Norwegian, so the family joke went:
How do Norwegians celebrate the New Year?
They snore a little louder.
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To drag this back to the original topic:
On the whole I like Shoprite. But there is a growing list of things they do that annoy me. (For all I know, many supermarkets do these). For example:
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The whole “digital coupons” thing, made worse by the fact that you cannot load them until the start of the week. So if I am shopping Sunday morning, I have to remember early Sunday to load them.
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The fact that some of the sales don’t start until Wednesday. This is especially annoying now that I am going only thrice monthly; I’m not making a second trip in a week just for cherries.
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The whole weird soda pricing, where three cases of soda cost less in total than two cases.
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The fact that their new “organic” section means I have to look in multiple places for things like cherry juice. Of course, the ethnic sections always meant multiple sections for canned beans, rice, or spices.
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Things on shelves too high for me to reach. (I’m about 5’2".) Am I supposed to find a staff member to get things for me (especially now)?
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Hi Evelyn,
Different strokes. I love the digital coupons. At Giant the apply automatically which has been wonderful and much easier for me than paper coupons. I am a devoted self-checkout fan so perhaps that makes a difference.
I don’t even walk through the organic section–too expensive and not good value for money–but yes, I agree with you that beans in multiple places (canned goods and international) is inconvenient.
I’m 5’10" and can’t reach some of the very top shelves. Bah! grin
I don’t have a Shoprite near me, but there is a local supermarket that does that weird loading coupons thing too. Ugh – was so annoying and just made the customers take an extra step for the discount. Really made for a poor customer experience. If you’re going to give your loyalty card customers a discount, just make it automatic with the card. This market made you go in and select, one-by-one, and then “add to card” and then flip through each page of discounts on their site. If they are trying to get info on what customers actually want and buy, you can do that by analyzing their data upon checkout. No need to make using a stupid discount/sale/coupon so difficult.
I’m 4’11" – I usually start climbing on shelves and then a taller worker or fellow shopper will take pity on me and help me.
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Are the shelves in Shop Rite literally higher than other stores?
At 6’3" I can’t escape a supermarket without getting flagged down by someone at least once for assistance in reaching something.
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Benn there; done that.
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Probably not, but I’m only familiar with Shoprite. (I did say other stores may be doing all these as well.)
Your height has you living in a state of grace.
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Thanks for posting this. I was hoping to read a “Silver Bullet” explanation for this behavior. You know what we got…
