Shenanigans

I realized that we sell everything today

we sell clothes

and hand wash machines

and scales

and if you really want something Publix can special order it for you to get, even if it is another store's exclusive product, like if for some reason, you wanted Albertson's Hand wash, we could order it at Publix.

How exactly does that work... does somebody go to the competition and buy it so we can sell it, or do we order it directly

and is it awkward to buy a product from a competitor to sell to a customer who likes the product but not the competitor well enough to shop there...

ponderous.

It is weird how picky people are...

I had this lady today who actually pulled all the soaps off the shelf to find the most full one,

she was sitting there on the floor surrounded in dish soap kinda on her heels,

almost squatting, but with her knees all around surrounded in Ajax cleaner

there were like twenty bottles around this middle aged Haitian woman eying containers with suspect analysis

So i went up and said

"Is there anything that I can help you with today?"

And she said

"No, deah thank you though, I was jeest lookin ta find the fullest one tah bring home wit' me tahday."

Now I do not know if I represented the regional speech with the proper marks, but it still had the effect of telling me that tis woman was used to looking for a bargain, even if it just meant one more hand washing.

It would be more weird if this was an isolated case, but they do it all the time. Constantly eying things and weighing things, and we have this guy who likes his meat wrapped in double plastic,in a separate double paper bag from the rest of his products, and then asks for a hand wipe, and asks me to wipe mine, and then bags the rest himself.

I don't know what this tells me about life.

Are people supposed to de-construct all of the details of their lives to control and structure every moment.

Or are we supposed to look at the big picture, and act like most customers, who literally could not care less about any aspect of the packaging or product selection process, they just want to get the hell out so they can go home and live their life.

So do we control life before we live it, or do we just live it, and not care about each individual step.