Wednesday 21 January 2009
Confusion At Coop
Why is it that Swiss checkout chicks (if you can call them that; I think the average age might be a bit too high) are obsessed with tying knots in my bags of veggies? There I was at the checkout yesterday with a (scandalously unknotted) bag with various carrots and zucchinis and things in it, and the checkout woman glared at me and aggressively double-knotted the bag (so enthusiastically that I actually couldn't get the knot undone again when I got home) before she scanned the bar codes. Possibly there's a small risk that a carrot might fall out while they're doing the scanning (oh no!), but why do they care? Is it really worth getting all narky and knotting the bag for the sake of those 2 seconds or so while my bags of veggies are in their care?
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I never thougth about this... Mhhhh... But it is true that I would always make a knot after filling my bag. Must be some bizarre cultural thing...
Perhaps we do it to imply that we had have made the knot first and then weighted the veggies?
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