Thread: Shopping and Flirting.

"Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
> Shopping and Flirting.
>
> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
> 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
> this gorgeous... ..."
>
> Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> Andy



Not everyone appreciates being "hit on" at the grocery store.

OB Food: chicken stew with drop dumplings

Jill

On Mar 16, 3:50 pm, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
> Shopping and Flirting.
>
> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
> 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
> this gorgeous... ..."
>
> Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> Andy

Not flirting, but supermarket conversations.

Today, people were in my way in the frozen food aisle. Some fat woman
and a munchkin. The kid was pawing through the frozen strudel
offerings. Mom said "You can't get all blueberry. Some people don't
eat blueberry" And I had to say "Yeah, what's wrong wtih those
people?" She got fed up with the kid and told him to put them all
back but one. I whispered to him "Get the blueberry" and we went our
separate shopping ways. Fifteen minutes later, who is next to me at
the check-out? She said "I think you've started something."

I like causing trouble, or "learning opportunites", that I can walk
away from.

Yesterday, for some reason the cashier started telling me about the
guy who invented velcro, made a fortune, lost it, made another. The
woman must have been sixty, working retail, but still has a dream of
her millions.

The day before (I go to the grocery store a lot) some woman was in my
way, looking confused, when I just wanted to grab a bottle of oyster
sauce. I'm a friendly, helpful guy, so I asked what she was looking
for. She had $20 of shrimp in the cart, said she wanted to make
shrimp-fried rice, had a packet of crap in her hand. I showed her
the back of her packet - dehydrated soy sauce, wheat paste, more
unpronouncable chemicals. I pointed to the shelf in front of her -
here's the soy sauce, here's the fish sauce, here's the MSG. Lime and
ginger the next aisle over. Don't buy the crap. "Well, I used this
stuff before and it was horrible, but I'll try it again." Some people
can't be helped.

B

"jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> Shopping and Flirting.
>>
>> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the
>> cute 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>>
>> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>>
>> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt
>> with this gorgeous... ..."
>>
>> Brunettes! another weakness!
>>
>> Andy
>
>
>
> Not everyone appreciates being "hit on" at the grocery store.
>
> OB Food: chicken stew with drop dumplings
>
> Jill


Jill,

Flirting is never a sexual commitment. It's a sexual tension relief
mechanism that only lasts maybe a few seconds, appreciated by both
parties involved. Going beyond that involves considerable risk!

Best,

Andy

On Mar 16, 1:50*pm, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
> Shopping and Flirting.
>
> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
> 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
> this gorgeous... ..."
>
> Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> Andy

So, what were the guy's names?

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:44:33 -0500, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:

>"jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]..
>>> Shopping and Flirting.
>>>
>>> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the
>>> cute 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>>>
>>> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>>>
>>> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt
>>> with this gorgeous... ..."
>>>
>>> Brunettes! another weakness!
>>>
>>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
>> Not everyone appreciates being "hit on" at the grocery store.
>>
>> OB Food: chicken stew with drop dumplings
>>
>> Jill
>
>
>Jill,
>
>Flirting is never a sexual commitment. It's a sexual tension relief
>mechanism that only lasts maybe a few seconds, appreciated by both
>parties involved. Going beyond that involves considerable risk!

This is very true... for most women it makes their day.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:56 -0500, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:

>Shopping and Flirting.
>
>Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
>5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
>All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
>I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
>this gorgeous... ..."
>
>Brunettes! another weakness!

You notice hair color... takes me like a month to notice if she even
has hair, and most hair color comes out of a bottle... guess what two
things I notice first.

On Mar 16, 3:10*pm, brooklyn1 <gravesen...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:56 -0500, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
> >Shopping and Flirting.
>
> >Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
> >5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
> >All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
> >I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
> >this gorgeous... ..."
>
> >Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> You notice hair color... takes me like a month to notice if she even
> has hair, and most hair color comes out of a bottle... guess what two
> things I notice first.

Please note that Andy never said he was flirting with women!!

brooklyn1 <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:56 -0500, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Shopping and Flirting.
>>
>>Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the
cute
>>5'10" blonde behind the register.
>>
>>All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>>
>>I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt
with
>>this gorgeous... ..."
>>
>>Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> You notice hair color... takes me like a month to notice if she even
> has hair, and most hair color comes out of a bottle... guess what two
> things I notice first.


I also have a fond affection for women with green eyes!!!

Tomorrow could be my lucky day if the laws don't change overnight! <VBG>

Andy

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:22:40 -0400, "jmcquown" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>"Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
>> Shopping and Flirting.
>>
>> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
>> 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>>
>> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>>
>> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
>> this gorgeous... ..."
>>
>> Brunettes! another weakness!
>>
>> Andy
>
>
>
>Not everyone appreciates being "hit on" at the grocery store.

In other words - it's never happened to you. I wonder why.

Lou

"brooklyn1" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:44:33 -0500, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> "Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]..
>>>> Shopping and Flirting.
>>>>
>>>> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the
>>>> cute 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>>>>
>>>> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>>>>
>>>> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt
>>>> with this gorgeous... ..."
>>>>
>>>> Brunettes! another weakness!
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not everyone appreciates being "hit on" at the grocery store.
>>>
>>> OB Food: chicken stew with drop dumplings
>>>
>>Flirting is never a sexual commitment. It's a sexual tension relief
>>mechanism that only lasts maybe a few seconds, appreciated by both
>>parties involved. Going beyond that involves considerable risk!
>
> This is very true... for most women it makes their day.
>

Maybe I'm just sick of people "hitting on me" when I'm in a store. It's one
thing to be complimented on an outfit. Definitely another thing to have
some guy panting over how I look in a pair of jeans. No thanks, dude, not
interested.

Jill

On Mar 16, 3:39*pm, "jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "brooklyn1" <gravesen...@verizon.net> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]..
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:44:33 -0500, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
>
> >>"jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >>> "Andy" <a...@b.c> wrote in message
> >>>news:[email protected]..
> >>>> Shopping and Flirting.
>
> >>>> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the
> >>>> cute 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
> >>>> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
> >>>> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt
> >>>> with this gorgeous... ..."
>
> >>>> Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> >>>> Andy
>
> >>> Not everyone appreciates being "hit on" at the grocery store.
>
> >>> OB Food: chicken stew with drop dumplings
>
> >>Flirting is never a sexual commitment. It's a sexual tension relief
> >>mechanism that only lasts maybe a few seconds, appreciated by both
> >>parties involved. Going beyond that involves considerable risk!
>
> > This is very true... for most women it makes their day.
>
> Maybe I'm just sick of people "hitting on me" when I'm in a store. *It's one
> thing to be complimented on an outfit. *Definitely another thing to have
> some guy panting over how I look in a pair of jeans. *No thanks, dude, not
> interested.
>
> Jill

Just how good do you look in a pair of jeans???

brooklyn1 wrote:
> You notice hair color... takes me like a month to notice if she even
> has hair, and most hair color comes out of a bottle... guess what two
> things I notice first.

Not mentioning any names, but when I commented on how beautiful a
woman's face was, a man said, "I didn't even notice she had a head."


Becca

On Mar 16, 4:50*pm, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
> Shopping and Flirting.
>
> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
> 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
> this gorgeous... ..."
>ou
> Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> Andy

I don't care if you're flirting, or discussing your leakin' roof -
just keep the line movin', dude. The person behind you shouldn't have
had to explain that he was in a hurry, even if he wasn't. It's rude
to take up a clerk's time when other customers are being delayed.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:59 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't care if you're flirting, or discussing your leakin' roof -
> just keep the line movin', dude. The person behind you shouldn't have
> had to explain that he was in a hurry, even if he wasn't. It's rude
> to take up a clerk's time when other customers are being delayed.

Go over to uk.f +d and say that. They have an entirely different
attitude toward talking to checkers and people in general at the
grocery store.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Mar 16, 4:16*pm, Kalmia <tweeny90...@mypacks.net> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 4:50*pm, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
>
> > Shopping and Flirting.
>
> > Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the cute
> > 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>
> > All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>
> > I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt with
> > this gorgeous... ..."
> >ou
> > Brunettes! another weakness!
>
> > Andy
>
> I don't care if you're flirting, or discussing your leakin' roof -
> just keep the line movin', dude. *The person behind you shouldn't have
> had to explain that he was in a hurry, even if he wasn't. *It's rude
> to take up a clerk's time when other customers are being delayed.

Andy never said the person in line was a "he".

In news:rec.food.cooking, bulka <[email protected]> posted
on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:39:50 -0700 (PDT) the following:

> Yesterday, for some reason the cashier started telling me about the
> guy who invented velcro, made a fortune, lost it, made another.

I always knew what I'd do with a fortune if I made it, but I never made
one. My plan was, if I ever got just a million bucks, was to put it into
a certificate of deposit and let it draw interest, which would be
deposited monthly into my checking account. Sure, the million would never
grow beyond its principle that way, but at least on a 20-year CD drawing
5% interest, I'd be getting $50,000 a year in free income, minus the
taxes. Then I could enjoy doing the kind of work I enjoy doing without
worrying about the fact that the pay sucks. And I wouldn't have to work a
full 40-50 hours a week, either. I could have worked maybe 25 hours a
week and avoid the burnout I suffered having worked the occupation for
38-55 hours a week for four years, plus the hour-long drive to and from
work.

I had plans to try, even if it was in vain, to build toward some kind of
CD by trying to save a thousand dollars a month, but it's hard to save
when you're paying off debts you had to run up when there wasn't enough
cash on hand for unavoidable expenses, like having your car fixed when
your job is delivering pizza.

> The woman must have been sixty, working retail, but still has a dream of
> her millions.

Meh... I'll never see a million unless the economic system changes so that
everyone makes the same amount of money. Last time I checked, if the
USA's Gross Domestic Product was distributed as a salary amongst all
living Americans, including babies, we'd all be getting a check for
$46,000 a year. I've never made that much in a year. Best I've ever done
was $30,000 and I had to work my ass off at two jobs to make that.

> The day before (I go to the grocery store a lot) some woman was in my
> way, looking confused, when I just wanted to grab a bottle of oyster
> sauce. I'm a friendly, helpful guy, so I asked what she was looking
> for. She had $20 of shrimp in the cart, said she wanted to make
> shrimp-fried rice, had a packet of crap in her hand. I showed her
> the back of her packet - dehydrated soy sauce, wheat paste, more
> unpronouncable chemicals. I pointed to the shelf in front of her -
> here's the soy sauce, here's the fish sauce, here's the MSG. Lime and
> ginger the next aisle over. Don't buy the crap. "Well, I used this
> stuff before and it was horrible, but I'll try it again." Some people
> can't be helped.

Fried rice took me a few tries to get it right. First, I found that the
cooked rice mustn't have too much moisture in it. So when I made the rice
in the rice cooker, I didn't use two cups of water for a cup of rice, but
I only usd about a cup and a quarter. Then I chilled the rice, and while
the rice was cold, I broked up the lumps with my hands so all the grains
were separated from each other. And I used oil instead of butter to fry
it. It just turned out so much better than my previous attempts. Plus, I
used to have a problem with the scrambled egg sticking to the rice, even
when I formed a well in the middle to cook the egg in. Now I just
scramble and fully cook the egg on the side, then dump it into the rice.
It certainly works out better for me that way.

I think I used soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and cayenne pepper for
seasonings and flavors. And for the non-rice foods, I had chicken, onion,
sweet peas, and little carrot bits I had chopped from baby carrots. I
just wish I had a wok to cook it in.

Damaeus

On Tue 16 Mar 2010 07:59:57p, Damaeus wrote in rec.food.cooking
<news:[email protected] >:

> Fried rice took me a few tries to get it right. First, I found
> that the cooked rice mustn't have too much moisture in it. So
> when I made the rice in the rice cooker, I didn't use two cups
> of water for a cup of rice, but I only usd about a cup and a
> quarter. Then I chilled the rice, and while the rice was cold,
> I broked up the lumps with my hands so all the grains were
> separated from each other. And I used oil instead of butter to
> fry it. It just turned out so much better than my previous
> attempts. Plus, I used to have a problem with the scrambled egg
> sticking to the rice, even when I formed a well in the middle to
> cook the egg in. Now I just scramble and fully cook the egg on
> the side, then dump it into the rice. It certainly works out
> better for me that way.
>
> I think I used soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and cayenne pepper for
> seasonings and flavors. And for the non-rice foods, I had
> chicken, onion, sweet peas, and little carrot bits I had chopped
> from baby carrots. I just wish I had a wok to cook it in.
>

I made fried rice for the first time not long ago. It was fun, and a
good refrigerator cleaner outer. I also added for seasoning some
oyster sauce and a tiny bit of sesame oil.

sf wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:59 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't care if you're flirting, or discussing your leakin' roof -
>> just keep the line movin', dude. The person behind you shouldn't have
>> had to explain that he was in a hurry, even if he wasn't. It's rude
>> to take up a clerk's time when other customers are being delayed.
>
> Go over to uk.f +d and say that. They have an entirely different
> attitude toward talking to checkers and people in general at the
> grocery store.
>

When I moved to the South, I was unprepared for the friendly way
strangers would address you. The first times some stranger called me
Honey or Baby I was almost in shock. Why were these women openly
flirting with me? The answer is they weren't... they are just being
friendly.

People here think nothing of coming up to you in a store and telling you
how they made something that they see you are buying... or wishing you a
Good Morning with a smile. I have even had a cashier come out from
behind her register and give me a hug! Since I am a hair over 6 feet
tall, I have had strangers politely ask me to please reach something
from the top shelf for them and that usually leads to a short
conversation and effusive thanks. Short little old ladies seem to love
me! <vbg>

It didn't take me long to get used to this and it sure makes shopping a
lot more fun.

George L

jmcquown wrote:
> "Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> Shopping and Flirting.
>>
>> Today at the checkout, I started flirting again, this time with the
>> cute 5'10" blonde behind the register.
>>
>> All was going great until I hear "I'm in a hurry!"
>>
>> I turned around and replied "If you don't mind, I'm trying to flirt
>> with this gorgeous... ..."
>>
>> Brunettes! another weakness!
>>
>> Andy
>
>
>
> Not everyone appreciates being "hit on" at the grocery store.
>
> OB Food: chicken stew with drop dumplings
>
> Jill
And you dream it will happen some day.

Give it up.