Don’t forget to post cute pictures
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Everybody is out to get those two pessimistic, burping, lazy, nail-biting, passive-aggressive, badly-behaved kids who brag about throwing trash out the window while tying up traffic, and who spend all day making out in public and watching HD videos.
PS: Pessimism is going to turn out to be a complete failure.
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Turkeys, not chickens. The ones I see in my neighborhood look just like that, and they’re quite big. Ornery too.
As I said when I posted the image, I can’t speak to the credibility. Based on participation in local and state groups on Facebook and Reddit I can say that I have heard a lot of complaints but not pessimism or anything that amounts to pessimism.
Given a choice of the peeves on the image and absent staying home in a pandemic I personally would pick badly behaved children, but only because we have fiber to the home and our Internet is good. grin
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I used to see them along the Merritt Parkway every time I drove up it to visit my father, but that was over a decade ago.
@pilgrim, your post makes me smile and cringe at the same time. Yikes, I’m afraid I would be your worst nightmare, as I’m guilty of this behavior. However, this was pre-Covid! But, I haven’t annoyed anyone in the last 15 months, because I haven’t been to a grocery store, just the little country store for 1-2 items occasionally. I’m a little reticent to go shopping because it’s been so long!
Anyway, I used to shop during off peak times, and carefully select. I’ll look for freshness, good expiration dates, and etc. If a can is dented, a carton sticky, or product doesn’t look good, back it goes. I always check eggs to make sure none are broken. I also carefully examine produce, although with Covid, I’ll have to be more careful about that!
I know at Farmer’s Markets, and our historic Pike’s Place Market in Seattle, they don’t want you pawing through the produce, and place signs to emphasize that. I abide by that, and ask for help. I hope not to commit a faux pas of pandemic etiquette when I do go shopping the first time (soon) 
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What do the signs say? I’m thinking they have to at LEAST let you touch it. Around here, at least pre-Covid there were signs about not pulling the corn wrappers back. They made sense to me, and I learned how to feel them up withought undressing them.
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@shrinkrap - they say something like: please don’t handle the produce, let us know if you need help with your selection. If a sign isn’t posted, you’re sure to be intercepted by staff or scowled at. It’s a fun place to shop though, as long as you’re not a mauler, or god forbid, a corn stripper! 
Or a melon or berry sniffer lol.
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Can you bag your own produce, or someone does it for you?
I went many years ago, and it was fun, but also a bit overwhelming. In retrospect I am reminded of the Ferry Plaza in SF, and wonder how much is for show, and how much is for folks who think it’s the best place to shop.
No, they do it for you. I don’t go to the market often due to distance from my house and crowds. They have beautiful and different things that I can’t find in my local markets. You should see their wild mushroom selection, seasonally. I can get chanterelles, and some others here, but never morels. Anyway, a wonderland of good stuff! There’s a great Italian Deli in the market too, cheese, of course seafood and meats. Purveyors of wondrous stuff - spends but worth it. Do you remember the flowers? Incredible @shrinkrap! When I make it back to SF, the Ferry Terminal Market is on my list. As is the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. I also love the market on Granville Island in Vancouver B.C.
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Google that quote. It’s kind of funny and has taken on a life of its own.
Ah…I see now. Shows you how out of the zeitgeist I am.
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(Maybe should have referred to a zeitchicken, not a zeitgoose. And probably not in the future subjunctive. 
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And I just noticed that my old jar of Pereg cumin is labeled “Kosher for Passover” , but the new one isn’t, so you may be right.
Don’t want to pile on but the packaged meat section of every market I shop at stacks things two or three high and two or three deep. I’m not buying the first pack of pork chops that’s sitting on top automatically. It’s not a candy vending machine. If I could trust that all the contents were the same I would… but I can’t.
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I totally agree. My rant was aimed at those who seem to find some neurotic satisfaction with handling every item in every department. At the far end of the continuum, there was a youngish woman who pulled yards of plastic bags from the produce dept.roll, then proceeded to put EVERY caeefully inspected purchase, produce, meat, bakery, canned and packaged goods, in its own bag, returning several times to get more bags.
And there is the old joke we often resurrect: the woman who asks the butcher to show her every chicken in the case, turn it over so she can see every side and angle. When she gets to the last chicken and still hasn’t accepted one, the butcher asks her, “Lady, could you pass this test?”
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Of course there are the parents that let their kids touch everything. Had that happen yesterday. She finally stopped them.
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Handling fresh produce in ways that ruin the items for others is my big pet peeve in supermarkets. Poking, peeling, squishing that make the produce unsalable—just no.
Sure, a person might need to pick up an item to assess its quality but it’s possible to be kind about it.
In a supermarket the produce isn’t going to be ideally ripe anyway as the goods are grown for uniformity and shipping.
Sigh, then things go downhill from there. Shoppers who come later find themselves picking through produce bins to avoid items that some earlier offender has pierced with a fingernail, bruised, or squeezed.
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The foundation of poorly behaved children is bad parenting.
Poorly behaved children grow up to be poorly behaved adults.
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I’m pleased to say I don’t have any supermarket peeves anymore because the market I use doesn’t create the situations.
My peeves were (1) those ridiculously giant shopping carts shaped like automobiles, ocean liners, and aircraft carriers to entertain the nerdlings; (2) tasting/sample kiosks and the jackals who abandon their carts to feast at them.
Honestly I do have one peeve left…other shoppers. 
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