They are pretty entertaining. The big (really flying foxes not in this area) ones are so graceful as they dart around. We used to throw raisins up in the air after dark and watch the ones we had in the Sierra’s snatch them up.
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“sleep off” is what I meant.
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Bats in the Sierras catch raisins if you throw them?? Gonna have to try that!
Get out on an old dusty road with no light pollution after dark in the summer, when the mosquitos are heavy and toss, but only if you see the bats in that area.
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Well, that’s pretty specific! 
I don’t see a lot of mosquitoes around here, at least during the day, but maybe that’s because of the bats!
Less cute.
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Peeve:
Our nearby Ralph’s markets (Kroger) charge 50¢ for getting cash back. I don’t know of any other market or business (other than out of network ATMs) that do that. I’ve forgotten that a few times but had the checker void the transaction out of principle when I realize I’m being charged.
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Keepin’ the fam warm
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ShopRite will email you your detailed receipt and give you just a small piece of paper with your total. It saves paper (and handling the chemicals on it), but the total is the total before taxes–completely useless in verifying your credit card bill, or really for any purpose.
I would hate to have that job.
I’m thinking if you enter your email you do have that job!
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They use the email address stored with your affinity card; it’s all automatic.
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Okay — here’s one that I don’t think has been mentioned: produce pricing. In some supermarkets peppers are priced by the pound, and in other by the unit (e.g., three peppers in a bag for a given price). For that matter, why are cucumbers priced by unit, and mini cucumbers by weight?
And why are the scales so imprecise? The ones in the produce department at ShopRite don’t settle on zero when empty. I realize the ones at the cash registers are probably accurate, but if I’m trying to buy a certain weight of loose produce, there’s still a lot of guesswork.
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How about when you pay $10 a pound for the big sheet of paper they put the fish on for weighing?
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No tare where you shop?
Where are you located?
I’m almost positive it’s illegal in the U.S.
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Careful what you wish for. Hard to put the harness and bit on them. Tackin’ one up is an adventure of its own.
I thought so, too.
I have a pet peeve that isn’t particularly U.S. supermarket-related: having to weigh produce before going to the cashier. Particularly when I don’t know the local way/language, and after you’ve stuffed your shopping basket, it’s tiresome.
Another one, particularly for European supermarkets: I hand you the cash, why can’t you hand me back the change? (I’ve mostly seen their cashiers place the change on the plastic counter, with rare exceptions).
By the by, how many of you have noticed that cashiers in the U.S. stand, and those in Europe sit? Same with airport check-in.
If you can convince the clerk to weigh just the paper, as I have done, the tare is less than the weight of the generous sheet of paper, and so there is a price shown for just the paper.
where do you shop?
So you are actually paying a separate price for the wrapping paper? This is different than your original post which you insinuated that the price of the meat/fish included the wrapping paper.
Which is it?
