Leggo my pepper!
I decided to self-check at Shaw's this evening. But because I know the machine freaks out after I've 'skipped bagging' six items I decided to bag my two produce items (bananas and an orange pepper). Though why they can't program the machines to let me 'skip bagging' all the time I don't understand. I'm just trying to save the planet by using my awesome reusable, organic, Mother Nature-approved Envirosax bag!
My tool against global destruction.
Ahem. So I grabbed my red bag and strode out the automatic door only to realize I'd left the plastic bag with my produce behind. So I turn around, walk back the twelve steps to my check-out machine (where no one had arrived during my absence to check out) and the bag is gone. I'm staring at where it was and it's not there. I was gone from it maybe 20 seconds. W.T. Fuck?
So I tell an employee I'm looking for a bag I just left behind and he goes to a cart filled with several bags. "Bananas?" He holds it up. This bag has about three dozen bananas. I told him that was way more than I bought. He directs me to another employee stationed a few feet away. She reaches under her dais and pulls out a bag and I watch as she stuffs my pepper back into the bag.
Huh? Why was my pepper outside the bag? I'd only been gone 20 seconds. Were they planning to return it to the produce section? Did I interrupt her plans to snack on my salad fixing? I guess I'll never know.
Maybe next time I'll just make the machine choke on my 'skip bagging' demands. That's fun.