The ‘let the kid touch the hot stove’ approach.

It worked on me, but I fear other people might nurse their burns and pray that next time things will be different.My experience is different. It’s a dense urban grocer. Now that you mention it, I’ve been to Target in the suburbs where SCO was like thunder dome. A little more room for bagging, but not much. I feel so bad for the one team member dashing around checking IDs and explaining why coupons from a decade ago no longer work.

My location (different grocer ) may be privileged, because, even when it’s slow, there are two full service registers. I remember how gross it felt watching a checker at Walmart in 02 also bag the groceries because baggers didn’t exist any more.

Just do like me and replay a Homestarrunner cartoon while waiting in line. Then reference it like the 18 year old at check out knows what the crap you are talking about.

‘I’m sorry, Mergetrude, can you halp an old master gather his particles…?’

Hate to break this to you, but you are on the QTEE list and everyone is looking at your picture while they get coffee in the morning in the break room.

But we love it when you visit… (Camera cranes in for an unrequited hug.)

I have witnessed far to many people with full carts que into the self check out, and than they get frustrated when every other thing they scan throws a flag.

Bitch, SCO is for 10 items or less!

I remind my currently 20 something nephew how he would cry crinkly crocodile tears if he wasn’t given a dose of Talking Tom.

Easy clean up.

Yeah, somebody hasn’t refreshed their browser since 2010.

Is it odd that a patient exists to assuage therapists?

I, personally, would ruin this method. I usually end up massaging my therapists and there really isn’t a slot to explain that on the insurance forms.

I think that T9 was faster and more accurate than swipe typing on a touch screen, that could just be me, though.

They stink like over-ripe mushrooms in my experience. They also easily break and you have to reinforce them with plastic packing tape. It’s a nice idea, but a regular paper box is the better option.

They can go right to hell! /S

My mom was barely there on medication and my father just wasn’t. It was cool to be able to do whatever I wanted, but I had to make sure Mom fell asleep on her side.

See, this is why I regret dropping out of high school.

Bateman, on the other hand…

I read somewhere that a dog’s basic genome was much more plastic than a cats: that’s why we have tiny annoying dogs but also large annoying dogs.

With cats you can mostly just have mediumish annoying cats.

My adopted little girl is still listed as Popoki in her adoption paperwork. I think that is close to Cat in Hawaiian.

We are firmly landlocked in the Midwest.

My mother has been searching for one of those since her first run in with one the 70s.

I was a Big Boy when this came in the scene, but I still fucked around with it.

Shout-out to my youth dentist that had a Galaxian cocktail table set to free play. I always liked forward to my checkups.