@pimm Can’t disagree.
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@seanddotmedotuk @gowin @billyjoebowers Ha! I had bought three jars of peeled garlic cloves when I was supposed to buy three fresh garlic cloves from the produce section, that’s all.
(They gave her a refund on the four full-price pineapples and she left with five. Apparently it was better to have four pineapples too few than one too many.) /fin
"Of course it is," said the pineapple lady. "What the hell would I do with ten pineapples?!" 8/
“Look, just go and get one more pineapple,” said the employee. “Then you’ll have enough to get the discount on your second purchase.”
“That’s ridiculous,” said the pineapple lady, gesturing to the nine pineapples in her cart.
“It is?” asked the employee. 7/
The employee sighed and counted the pineapples in the lady’s cart.
“Okay, but you only have nine pineapples,” said the employee. “So your second purchase would only have four pineapples and it wouldn’t qualify for the discount.”
The pineapple lady was beside herself in anger. 6/
“Do you know my name?” demanded the pineapple lady.
“No,” said the employee.
“Then just pretend I came into the store again and you didn’t recognize me, and I bought the other pineapples when I came in the second time,” said the pineapple lady. 5/
Eventually, the store employee learned that there was a limit of five pineapples on the deal, and the lady had nine pineapples, so any pineapples above the limit were going to ring up at the regular price. The pineapple lady was incensed. 4/
The pineapple lady was angry because there was apparently a discount if you bought five pineapples, and she hadn’t received the discount on her entire cart of pineapples. The store employee told her she’d look into it. 3/
When it was my turn in line, the woman at the counter briefly looked past me and noticed the cart with the pineapples, which was all the pineapple lady needed to begin yelling and brandishing her receipt. The woman at the counter made an “I’m sorry” face and I said it was fine, I can wait. 2/