Stupid People

As if one blog a day is not enough I find myself blogging twice a day now. OK, so here's the thing. I needed to vent and you readers are the lucky...err... well you are the one's who are gonna be on the receiving end of my ranting. I just returned from the grocery store. I just needed to pick up a few cleaning supplies and some ingredients to make tonights dinner. When I went to pay I noticed the self-service lanes were not open so I got in one of the long lines to pay for my items. It seemed I had chosen the wrong lane because the lady at the register was a complete idiot! I'm sorry but it is true. There were only 3 in front of me, none having more than a few items to purchase. I kid you not... I was in line for more than 30 minutes! When the lady in front of me was waiting for her items to be rung up I noticed the cashier having a difficult time with one of the items... a bunch of green onions. Now I may forgive a 16 year old boy for not knowing what green onions are but this lady looked to be in her 30's-40's and I can't imagine a woman living in the good old US of A not knowing what green onions were! So OK, maybe she slipped by, I can handle that. What came next had me shaking my head and wondering how she made it this far in life. The customer had to tell her what the item was, she then proceeded to look it up on the produce list in order to find the correct code. That must have taken a good 3 or 4 minutes. Once she discovered the code she put it in the register then commenced to count out each individual onion! I am not kidding! The customer looked at her like she was from Mars or something and said, excuse me but they are sold by the bunch, not individually! I nearly lost it then. Where do these people come from??? When it was my turn one of the things I had purchased was a box of ziplock bags that had a discount coupon stuck on the box. I peeled it off and handed it to the cashier who had completely forgotten about it so I reminded her. It was only for 20cents off and I was wishing I had kept my mouth shut and let them keep the money because it was another 7 or 8 minutes before that was resolved. Two other cashiers had to leave their customers to come and help her out and no one could figure out how to subtract the coupon. GOOD LORD!!! When I arrived home I discovered she had put cleaning items in the bags along with the food. ARGH! Honestly, how stupid can people be??? I just don't understand. I think she must be related to the folks that work at Best Buy. Recently I had purchased an accessory for connecting my GSP to my laptop. Simple, right? Well not exactly. I've bought 3 different things now, each time the sales person at Best Buy swearing this was what I needed, only to get home and discover they didn't know what they were talking about. Living out in the boonies it is not always easy to drive to a town that has a Best Buy. The last time I went I even took my laptop in with me, explaining to the sales guy what I needed. He took back the previous accessory telling me this was the one I needed. WRONG! I got home and the darn thing won't even fit my computer at all. So it is going to be a 4th trip there. Maybe I should just give up. OK, so enough ranting. I just needed to vent and get it all out. I'm feeling better now. Thanks for being there.