my mom steals grapes.

[ccharles000]

We were at the store today and as we went by the fruit section I saw her take a grape. I told her she was stealing and she said everyone did it. I don't do it and asked her to stop. When we got in the car she told me I am not very fun to shop with.

[Richardo]

1. My mom doesn't put stuff back.

I was grocery shopping with her a few years back and as we were going to the register she changed her mind about some item and just put it on whatever shelf we were passing at the time. I was shocked. She said it gave the stockers something to do. With a grin.

As a former retail floor guy I was appalled. Not really. Taken aback is more like it.

[jobycom]

10. Uh oh. This could start another of those shopping cart threads!

"People who put merchandise back are stealing jobs from stockers!" Or something like that.

[hedgehog]

19. I've seen that done with a half gallon of ice cream!

[Deja Q]

34. Well, on the plus side, at least she didn't regurgitate the grapes to put them back

:yoiks:

[Lyric]

2. I do that, but only with white grapes.

With white grapes, it's a 50/50 chance that they're either going to be the yummy sweet ones, or the awful sour, icky ones. I never, ever buy a bag of grapes without tasting one first, just to be sure, and if it turns out to be a nasty sour lot, I don't make the purchase. If it's sweet, I buy the bag, always, because those are my favorite things to snack on.

I suppose you could look at it as "stealing," but I consider selling me nasty sour grapes that are almost inedible to be "stealing" from ME.

I never do it just for snacking, though, and since Rhythm, LyricKid and I always shop together, only *one* of us tests a grape.

:hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. OH DAMN!

I thought grapes were samples!

[AlCzervik]

4. shopping cart non putter backers are much worse. The supermarket should just put

a bowl of grapes out, they know people are going to take some out of the bags so why not make it a marketing opportunity.

put the shopping cart back assholes.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. True. Almost everyone I know samples the grapes to see if they

are sweet and ripe. I don't because my kids will eat them if they're rotting.

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. That's nice...you feed your kids rotting food

[AlCzervik]

8. i feed my kid rotting indigo children.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. lol

[AlCzervik]

14. and everybody thanked me.

;)

[Midlodemocrat]

9. I wouldn't if they were indigo children, of course, but they're just ordinary.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. Indigo children would use their powers to keep the grapes from ever rotting

[AlCzervik]

15. Behold the power of bratty!

[jmowreader]

23. I've seen supermarkets who do

Harris Teeter in Fayetteville does this--they also cut up strawberries and other fruits and stick toothpicks in them as handles, and have little holders at the end of the display rack for the cut-up samples.

[Common Sense Party]

25. I glare at the cart-non-putter-backers.

You give them the cold, steely, "What? It's gonna kill you to walk another 20 steps over to the corral?" look.

[friedgreentomatoes]

35. they do...

put a lot of stuff for "sampling" (including grapes) at the 2 local Whole Food Markets i frequent. Actually I drop by if I am a little hungry, to sample the grapes, chips and dips, bread and butter, and the cheese :9

[siligut]

7. At the farmers markets they will give you a bite!

They want you to sample, so you get what you want. It also encourages you to buy.

[jobycom]

16. And for $30, they'll give you a whole nuther grape!

I love farmers markets. Wish I could afford them.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. The ones around here are all cheaper than the supermarket

Last time I went I spent $8 and left with a ton of stuff.

[jobycom]

20. Here I could shop at Whole Foods and have money left over for Neimann Marcus

with what I could get at the Farmer's Market.

[Shell Beau]

11. My grandma does for sure. She must taste test.

[ReliantJ]

18. A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO

WRATH OF GRAPES


EH EH?

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. I suppose I should be appalled but can't work myself up about that one.

If she'd helped herself to a handful or ripped open a bag of Doritos than I'd probably look at her funny.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN?

:loveya:

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. *sigh* Here, there and everywhere.

My life goes on uber-fast foward in December/January/February. My in-laws come down and do the Florida Home Camp thing from my house. They are with us for a week. Then they go to Key West for four weeks. We go to Key West for one of those weeks. We host Israeli exchange students for a week. The in-laws come back and stay with us for a week. Then we go somewhere with them for a week.

Add that to my professional and academic responsibilities...not to mention the mommy ones...and that all adds up to an inability to breathe some days.

Hubby has jetted off to a whisky tasting event and will be gone for three days so I am ignoring the children, the house work and anything else I can turned a blind eye towards. So here I am. :)

:hug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. I wish I could go to a whisky tasting event for three days

We've missed you around here. I'm at work, taking a break from organizing a wall of the most disorganized files ever and listening to Springsteen (I'm the only one in the office today).

:hug:

[Pacifist Patriot]

29. Only one in the office sounds like a dream!

I have decided that the INFJ personality type (of which I am soundly one) would gladly be hermits if we didn't have this annoying calling to contribute to developing the potential of others.

[Common Sense Party]

24. I have no problem with that IF you're testing to see if the grapes are good.

I hate bringing a whole bunch home that are too sour or not flavorful. No problem to pop a grape or two from a bunch to see if they're sweet. But that assumes you're planning on buying some grapes if they meet quality control.

[geardaddy]

28. I think every mom does it.

Mine does. I tell her she's stealing, too.

[qb]

30. Here's a true story for her: My friend's dad

got taken to the back room for eating grapes out of his shopping cart! They let him go with a reprimand, but whoa - how embarrassing!

[ccharles000]

31. that is embarrassing

[alphafemale]

38. That's bullshit.

I'd of climbed up and stood on their stupid scale and offer to pay for anything over 120 lbs.

Pricks.

That or stuck a finger down my throat and yurked up their precious, slightly used grapes.

Pricks.

At the very least that would have been the last time in that store.

They'd just lost at least $100 a week worrying about what a...nickle?

Pricks.

[noamnety]

32. I yelled at a stranger once in the store.

He picked up a piece of rhubarb, bit into the end of it, then put it back with the others.

[YDogg]

33. people in Greensboro do that shit all the time.

:hide:

[Roon]

36. My Grandfather does the same thing with peanuts

I look the other way...what are they going to do? Bust an 85 year-old man for taking a peanut?

[trof]

37. Grandpa used to 'test' the raw peanuts.

He'd crack a few and taste them. See if they were OK to buy.
If they passed his test he'd buy 2 or 3 pounds and take them home and 'parch' them.
Parch = slow roasting in the oven.