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

Help! I've been Hyacinth'd. I know how Emmett feels!
I was in the supermarket yesterday and happened to be wearing green. A lady I know came up to me and said, "Are we celebrating St. Patrick's Day?" Since my last name sounds Irish, I said, "Sure." This lady then proceeded to sing at me! An Irish song, or so she said. There was a young man in the area stocking shelves and the look on his face was priceless!!!

The kicker? The woman's name was Violet.

True story.

You should put this over at the salon. Or wait. I'll make a link to it. Then maybe some of the salonistas will read it here and put you on their friends lists so they'll get your journals in the future.

I would like to post it somewhere that others besides you and I would read it. What makes it funny is that it's true. 100%

I just mentioned it in the salon.

That made me laugh outright!

Supermarkets - the last refuge of the delightfully dotty.

We have a guy who comes into the library and sings his requests - very hard to keep a straight face when someone is warbling 'And pleee-ease renew my booo-ooo-oooks'. Is he eccentric? Is it a technique for not stammering?

Why does things like that not happen to me in supermarkets. All I get it the trolley with the warped left front wheel...

"it" --> "is"

At least shopping at my Walmart is an international experience (Mexican, Apache, and Anglo), and I sometimes get to watch the Walmart cheer, but I've never been serenaded.

Thank you all for your responses to my supermarket musicale.

Caer, I'm glad you had a good laugh. I'm glad I could bring a little sunshine to your day!

Ag, your singing library customer sounds delightful. I had one who sang hello to me each time she visited the store where I worked. She wasn't eccentric, nor did she stutter. She just liked to sing! Her name was not Violet.

Santra, don't you just love the trolleys with warped wheels??? Everyone in the establishment knows where you are.

Lil, our WM's are very international too. We have a large Mexican and Oriental population. We also have quite a few Native Americans. Makes the vegetable section much more interesting.
The Wal Mart cheer is quite an eye opener, isn't it? Target has noisy staff meetings too.........

On the topic of people having to sing words they can't say...........

My sister's friend couldn't pronounce the word 'enema' unless she sang it - which was a bit of a problem since she was a ward sister.

The doctors used to wind her up something rotten.

I think the Wal-Mart cheer is just another way they have of humiliating their employees. All that rah-rah garbage is disgraceful. It isn't bad enough that they are underpaid, have s**t, sexist working conditions and are kept part-time so the company can get away without paying them any benefits. Then they have to cheer and shout and be made fools of. It's also disgraceful to expect an elderly door greeter to dress up like a rabbit or a leprechaun or whatever - pick your holiday/event. There isn't enough money on earth to get me to work for a company like that.

Deep breath.

Our dad couldn't pronounce aluminum. I'm sure glad he didn't try to sing it though.

Rah rah ree, kick him in the knee.........So much for the Wal Mart Cheer.............

I haven't noticed the door greeters out here dressing up for the holidays. Maybe I'll mention it to the store managers.

On a rant about Wally World: I don't like the life sized Santas, ghosts, etc., that sing at you everytime you walk by them.

*checks diary*

Er, it's not even St. Paddy's day yet. But when it is I'll make sure to pop over here and sing "The Irish Rover" tunelessly at the top of my voice.

Bagpuss, you must sing it in the supermarket for it to be as effective.

Yay, crazy people! We need more of them.

Maybe you should have a very quiet library cheer, Hyp?

Lady C, I think that having non-dressed-up greeters is probably a very, very good thing indeed.

David, what we need at the library are some of those soft bats so we can beat people with them without leaving any bruises.

Give me a
Give me a
Give me a

Sorry.

Nerf Bats???? They do make a small popping noise though.