Wasted Days and Stumping The Checker
All of today was wasted on a headache. I swear, I’m never going to catch a Tuesday/Thursday break. Okay, most of today was wasted on a headache. I managed to pick up the living room so the Roomba could vacuum, empty the dishwasher, put the morning dishes in and wipe down the counter tops before the medicine kicked me to sleep. Then I woke up groggy and feeling terrible, but with less head pain. This one started sometime at night because I dreamt about the pain that I woke up with.
I made it to the grocery, being out of vegetables. Again. Mac requested vegetable soup, so I picked up stuff for that, including two items that the checker did not know what they were: fennel and leeks. I’m sure they are not two that he checks out often, and it seems that the teenage boys are easy to stump when it comes to vegetables not in a bag with their name on it. Not their fault though is the POS system that doesn’t allow substring matches. You can’t put in “fennel” and have it come up. It has to be an exact match, and the name that is in their POS system is “anise/fennel.” The same goes for endive. You have to have them put in belgian endive, or they will never find it. The best part was the person who came to help find fennel in the system before I suggested they look up anise started talking about how items are in strange places, like zucchini being listed under squashes, and I got to say, “It is a squash.”
Still, it isn’t as bad as the checker who did not know what broccoli was. How can you not know what broccoli looks like?
