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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 514211" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>HaoZi -If you are what you eat? my guess would be that after YEARS of eating the processed food with the inert ingredients at the COMPETITION? The effects are FINALLY starting to surface. </p><p></p><p></p><p>My favorite DUH-HUH moment from my last job? (this is priceless) -------and only because the woman was dead serious. </p><p></p><p>In our store your total price was determined by a rate x the amount of weight of items you had. For example - you bring a buggy full up to the counter, I pull it over the scale, it weighs 10 lbs. the fee is 2.00 a lb - you owe me $20.00 If you didn't like the price - you could take the items out, sort out what you really could live without and come back across the scale with a lighter buggy for a lower price. Simple right?</p><p></p><p>So one day this woman comes up with her cart loaded to the top and beyond. I drug it across the scale and she topped out at 44 lbs. Okay so 44 lbs x 2.00 a lb is? (CLASS? $88.00) The woman looks at me and says "OH MY GOSH I can't believe it's that much, I can't spend that much!" She stands there completely shocked that she's thrown 44 lbs of junk into her buggy - and then totally serious - looks at me and says "Do you think if I re-arrange it differently it will weigh less?" I was at such a loss for words at her logic I said "Well sure you can always try it." So she spent (I kid you not) twenty minutes rearranging - (NOT REDUCING) but rearranging that buggy, and came back across the scales - and mind you had removed NOTHING.....and I kept a poker straight face as I said "Hmmm 44 lbs, is $88.00" and she said "HA GOOD I'll take it." </p><p></p><p></p><p>The number of things that ran thought MY mind at that point were absurd. And while I try my best never to call anyone stupid, because we all have varying degrees of intelligence.....I just thought to myself - HOW in the world do you get SO stressed out in your life that you rationalize rearranging items to make them weigh less and they weigh the same and you're HAPPY about it? WOW. </p><p></p><p>I can say I felt pretty smart the rest of the day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 514211, member: 4964"] HaoZi -If you are what you eat? my guess would be that after YEARS of eating the processed food with the inert ingredients at the COMPETITION? The effects are FINALLY starting to surface. My favorite DUH-HUH moment from my last job? (this is priceless) -------and only because the woman was dead serious. In our store your total price was determined by a rate x the amount of weight of items you had. For example - you bring a buggy full up to the counter, I pull it over the scale, it weighs 10 lbs. the fee is 2.00 a lb - you owe me $20.00 If you didn't like the price - you could take the items out, sort out what you really could live without and come back across the scale with a lighter buggy for a lower price. Simple right? So one day this woman comes up with her cart loaded to the top and beyond. I drug it across the scale and she topped out at 44 lbs. Okay so 44 lbs x 2.00 a lb is? (CLASS? $88.00) The woman looks at me and says "OH MY GOSH I can't believe it's that much, I can't spend that much!" She stands there completely shocked that she's thrown 44 lbs of junk into her buggy - and then totally serious - looks at me and says "Do you think if I re-arrange it differently it will weigh less?" I was at such a loss for words at her logic I said "Well sure you can always try it." So she spent (I kid you not) twenty minutes rearranging - (NOT REDUCING) but rearranging that buggy, and came back across the scales - and mind you had removed NOTHING.....and I kept a poker straight face as I said "Hmmm 44 lbs, is $88.00" and she said "HA GOOD I'll take it." The number of things that ran thought MY mind at that point were absurd. And while I try my best never to call anyone stupid, because we all have varying degrees of intelligence.....I just thought to myself - HOW in the world do you get SO stressed out in your life that you rationalize rearranging items to make them weigh less and they weigh the same and you're HAPPY about it? WOW. I can say I felt pretty smart the rest of the day. [/QUOTE]
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