I am CuTRis

This nail clipper is one of my oldest possessions. I can also still remember where it came from, though I was very young. It still says GEM on it.

CuTRis Waiting for Wife UnAssociated Press December 26, 2023 CuTRis was spotted at the Mall of America, waiting for his wife to finish shopping. When asked by UAP reporters what he was doing, he reportedly answered, "rotting."

Something I like to do, is find that about to expire chicken on sale at the grocery store, and take it home and put in on the grill so it turns into dinner.

Often, when shopping at Aldi, I like to ask the person with 5 items behind me if they'd like to go in front of me. The person always seems pleasantly surprised, and says, "Yes! thanks!" They never say, "No, that's all right. It will take me at least twice as long to buy these 5 items than it will take you to buy your cart full. You see, besides simultaneously using my phone while at the checkout, I will be using 3 different methods of payment, and each will take at least 2 minutes. Then after my transaction is finally over, I'll remember that I need to buy a bag. Then I will be slowly removing my items from the same cart that the cashier is putting your items into. So, no, I'll stay back here and wait."

Once there was a company called Sears. You could use a book, or "catalog" Sears published to select items to purchase. Then you could mail your order with a check or money order to Sears, and your package would be delivered to your house. Eventually, Sears relied on (brick and mortar) stores that people came to, to buy things. Then when everyone was shopping on the Internet, a company called Amazon had items for sale on their website. Customers could select what they wanted to buy and pay with a credit card. Then the package would be delivered to their house. This new idea for selling things eventually put Sears out of business...

There I was waiting on my dot to checkout. In front of me was a roadrunner! He moved up to the register, so I started moving up to the next dot. Suddenly a coyote pushed me out of the way and WAMM! He got hit by an anvil! That coyote is a hero!

After shopping at the local Walmart and noticing how it didn't appear to be well stocked (except in groceries) or cleaned, I took my purchases to the self-checkout . Unlike at the grocery store, this machine did not accept my initial "Credit" selection and proceeded to try to process my card as "Debit." I pushed the button that said "Change Payment;" and it beeped and did nothing else. I finally flagged down one of the English speaking employees who pressed the exact same button. It worked for her and she condescendingly told me just to push "Change Payment." I told her that I had, but she just walked off as if she were superior to me—in that way that Walmart employees like to do.

I needed to stop by ALDI to get some 89¢ per lb. chicken legs. So I'm waiting to checkout and the woman behind me is leaning over looking at my food. Then she touches my chicken legs (near the price tag) and says, "Three dolla?" I reply, "yeah, three sixty," and I'm thinking STOP TOUCHING MY CHICKEN! She says, "On sale?" I say, "yeah," and I'm thinking STOP TOUCHING MY GROCERIES YOU DUMBASS.

As the price of eggs kept rising (and the price of gold went down), the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg found herself replaced by the hen that laid regular eggs...

I like the Aldi stores, but I must admit that the shopping experience is not particularly pleasant. I put up with it because the prices simply cannot be beaten by any other store. That said, this simple fact lends itself to a more "difficult" clientele than many other stores will have to deal with. This is likely why Aldi often has a security guard posted near the entrance. There is one particular Aldi store that is near where I live that seems to have a greater abundance of drama than the other stores I've been to. I've seen belligerent people, people who can't pay, drunk people, people being arrested, etc., but yesterday I witnessed an elderly man who had just fallen. The poor guy had just paid for a cart full of groceries and fell down as he was preparing to leave. His leg looked like it was probably injured in the process. Someone called for "security," which I must say, this particular security officer was nearly useless during this event....

Apparently Target is hiring! It seems ironic that just a week ago Target announced mass layoffs !

I sent this (see below) to Trader Joe's online feedback on the website exactly two months ago today—where they claim that they are eager to hear comments. I’m thinking two months later—with a reminder at one month—that really isn’t the case. I like the store most of the time, but I don’t believe that they really care what I think. Walking through produce (Store 727) today I noticed some nice Bartlett pears in 2# bags. The sign on the bin said Bartlett Pears 2# $2.49. When I got to the register they were $3.49. I was overcharged! I brought it to the cashier's attention and she rang a bell and a guy went to look. He didn't find the sign (lots of stuff not priced) and went to another register to get the price of $3.49. The cashier (Liz) removed the item from my bill and I paid (Invoice 3404) and put my groceries in the car. Just to satisfy myself, I went back in and the sign was still there for the pears but now apples were in that bin. I took a digital picture and showed...

I like to buy my son things when he needs them. In the realm of clothes, however, my wife is in charge. Many of the clothes I have purchased thinking how great they were, have been vetoed and rejected. Then, I have to return them. Sometimes it is because my wife says, they "aren't comfortable enough." Then I look at them and they feel soft and comfortable but since I like the old style blue jeans that stand up by themselves after a wash and line-dry when they are new, I suppose I could be a poor judge. Recently, my wife informed me that our son needed pants. What size I asked? She told me 5T. So I bought several 5T items and when I came home with them, she informed me that he is actually still wearing 4T. So the following day I went back to the store and acquired 4T. I returned home fearing that perhaps my son had shrunk a size or maybe expanded to 7T while I was at the store. Fortunately the 4T size was still correct (this time) and the clothes passed the various and...

Every once-in-awhile I have to go to Kmart . There are a few things I can't seem to find anywhere else. For instance, Rustler Jeans . Now that I'm not in sixth grade and I don't have Tom M. making fun of my clothes, shoes, finger nails, hair, (and other things I won't mention), I can buy and wear whatever I want to. I like functional and inexpensive. I also like the old style jeans that can (literally) stand up (against a wall) by themselves after their first washing. Nobody seems to sell these anymore!!! Everything is prewashed, preshrunk, pre-softened, pre-worn! It's ridiculous! If I want worn-out jeans I'll pull some out of my closet!!! Well anyway, the Rustlers have a pretty close replica of real jeans and I can only find them at KameApart . So I went to Kmart and found the Rustlers I wanted except they didn't have my size! They did have my size in a black pair but not the blue. So I decided to try the black pair. When I got to the fitting rooms, a wo...

The definition of a " Gift Shop ," is a store that sells overpriced things that you would never buy for yourself; that you can buy to give to someone else.

I bought an under gravel filter system for my aquarium from Petco . It was supposedly a Petco product , as that was the brand. Inside there are cartridges with activated charcoal that are supposed to be replaced monthly (I think they recommend every two-weeks). I went to Petco to get the replacement filters and they told me they don't have any! I was also told the under gravel filter systems have gone on clearance—though they are still selling them. Thanks to the Internet I found that PetSmart sells the (Top fin brand) replacement cartridges that will work in the Petco system. So why would you sell something (and continue to sell it) that needs replacement parts—but not sell those parts? That is just dumb!

While riding in the car with my wife driving, I observed that men and women are extremely different in many ways. The roads were messy as we drove to IKEA , and the windshield was getting dirty on the car. Every couple of miles (or minutes), my wife would shoot generous amounts of windshield washer fluid on the windshield and clean the dirt off with the windshield wipers. I recognized that had I been driving, and since I am male, I would have driven until the windows were nearly blocked completely by dirt before applying a small amount of washer spray so that visibility was (mostly) once again restored. Upon leaving IKEA, I overheard a man complaining about the store; after which his wife said, "I love this store!" This is also true of me and my wife. For me, IKEA is a commitment. It took us most of the day to go through and find the things we were looking for (and some we weren't). By nature of being put into this place where you follow a one-way "road" thr...

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