h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Now, brace yourself...

I HATE shopping!

Shopping isn't that bad, as long as you are look at stuff you really like. But shopping for neccessary things is a chore, and people hate chores. Therefor you are not alone.

No... I just hate shopping in general.

Shopping means spending money I don't have.

Is this a male thing? My boyfriend hates shopping, no he HATES shopping. I'm not trying to stereotype but I know many men who do.

There was a reason I said 'Now brace yourself' ... and it surely wasn't due to any maleness on my part.

I'm not trying to stereotype but I know many women really HATE shopping when ist is the every
day shopping in a grocery, but they LOVE shopping if it is for new clothes or shoes or jewellery
from the money they press out of their poor husband's empty wallet )
And for the subject why grocery stores don't alphabetize: staff can't really work with the alphabet, that's
the only reason ))

I'm not trying to stereotype but I know many women really HATE shopping when it is the every
day shopping in a grocery, but they LOVE shopping if it is for new clothes or shoes or jewellery
from the money they press out of their poor husband's empty wallet
And for the subject why grocery stores don't alphabetize: staff can't really work with the alphabet, that's
the only reason

There are -way- too many single women out shopping to assume the money all comes from handy hubbies... But the type of shopping doesn't matter in my case... I just hate shopping in general.

The only place that unalphabetized educated staff can live is YOUR town

Yes, YOU hate it in general, yes yes.
And I am the King of Sweden.

I know a lot of single women whose most occupying activitiy is shopping. I guess we can speak of creatures stampeded by frustration.

No. I am not a jingo. I am ? Hmmm.

What ?! Why has there been so much writen about this without anyone getting to the bottom of the tim ?>
Of course they 'Alphabetize' soup !!!!
It's SIMPLE (and so are the grocery store folk)
Soup all gets filed under S .

Of course, YOU AREN'T

Perhaps at your grocery store. At mine, just finding the *region* in which the soup exists is a challenge. You see, America has developed this concept of "Super Stores," "Hyper Markets," etc. which means that when you pop into the store to grab a few items, you first have to meander your way through the gas grills, past the lawn tractors, around the corner with the furniture, and then finally, after nearly knocking over a display of Halloween costumes, you *might* be somewhat close to the food section. Once you've reached the food, the item you're looking for could be in one of about 1,200 aisles. but rest assured, the "food" section doesn't just contain food... oh, no. That would be too simple. No, the "food" section contains ironing boards, cleaning supplies, toilet tissue, and all other types of things which one cannot ingest without a corresponding trip to an emergency room for prompt removal of whatever it is that you ingested.

Sorry, I think I carried on a bit there.

I don't think that this is reduced to my hometown because I was confronted with phenomenon in a lot of different towns. Nevertheless your thoughts about alphabetization in grocery stores led me to a similar problem, I always meet in grocery stores or super markets: here I'd like to add a link to my entry about fast and slow queues at cash registers. How can I add a link to an other entry?? If you are interested in that topic, look for cash register in the "search" field

*tiny bow* Your majesty....

Just type in http://your.link.here

(the above link won't work, of course )

hey mouse, lots of thanks for that advice, I hope I can manage it now

It's a test, I'm a bit dumb, you see ?? :-) http://Why.is."my".queue.at.the.cash.register.always.the.slowest?

Do you mean to say you DON'T eat your meals of an Ironing Board, use cleaning fluid as a condiment, or tissues as a napkin, before jamming your fork into your leg so you can be rushed to hospital to sample the delights of cold semolina pudding?

Ye Gods! What kind of creature are you?

OOoookay... lets try this again... Say you want to put a link in to the forum called "Boing"...

http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?MESSAGES[(THREADID*19773?forumid*1296)THREADS[(THREADID*19773?forumid*1296?subset*0)#


(I'm using NS, so all I had to do was right-click on the link to that thread, select 'copy link location' then come here and paste it in (ctrl + V).)

Does that help?