This article appears in Jan 1-7, 2009.
An Open Letter to Grocery Store Slobs.
Why do you leave your empty Tim Hortons cup on some random shelf? How fucking lazy can you possibly be? Granted, this doesn’t affect my life all that much. Unless the item I want is behind that cup and I have to touch it. Who knows where your hands
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Why is the sky blue fuckhead? Idiots stick their fingers through fresh loaves of bread, leave their snotrags in carts, root through the frozen food and forget their Tim’s cups on grocery shelves just to piss off judgmental old bags who have nothing better to do than complain about everything and anything! Looks like it’s working. Next.
Good one, jon. Maybe OP should be wearing a protective mask and rubber gloves on the next grocery trip.
So you two think the behavior the OP is describing is acceptable then? No wonder the world is going to shit. People can behave any disgusting way they want, and if anyone objects to it, THEY get shit on, not the pigs. Wonderful.
Exactly Miranda! Any one with anything resembling standards for behaviour within the general public is “judgemental” and needs to “calm down and quit whining”. I personally don’t subscribe to that line of reasoning. What the OP described was gag-inducing. The offenders should be ashamed of themselves as they are not only inconsiderate and fucking ignorant but DIRTY and spereading their germs everywhere!
Leaving frozen or refrigerated items in the wrong place gets me. Like an entire roast sitting in the cereal aisle behind a box, dead warm. Or containers of milk in the freezer section busted out the sides. Dumbass wasteful shit.
I don’t know who this jon guy is, but he seems to take this bitch a little bit personally. I wonder how many Tim’s cups he has left on grocery store shelves. Dirty fucker.This “do what you feel like, fuck everybody else” attitude is at the root of all the decay in our society. I believe we would be a better society if we held each other to some basic standard of civilized behavior. And yes, I do agree that abandoning your garbage on a grocery store shelf falls short of that standard. I guess that makes me a judgemental old bag too.I have to say, I am surprised at TTFN. I thought you were of my generation; a generation that still believes in that standard of behavior. Have you just given up? “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”?
Hey Miranda, you just don’t get it, do ya, you judgmental old bag. When I lose a cup, I go and find it and I don’t stick my fingers into fresh bread. I’m criticizing “judgment” you twirp. Observe the language you use… “do what you feel like- fuck everybody else – attitude – decay in our society- better society-basic standard of civilized behavior.” Do you really think that people would do these things if they didn’t get a reaction from judgmental creeps like you and DS? C’mon, bitch, you know little about human behavior and less about me and who the fuck cares if you’re shocked or surprised? Your roots are showing and so is your IQ. Yes i’m judging judgment by judging, but I do know that reality is totally subjective and that separateness is an illusion. Maybe we could set up a little appointment for you with Dr. Quantum.
Jon is criticizing judgmental people in the bitch section. That’s like going to church and denouncing their religion.
Yes, jon, actually, I think people would do these things whether they got any reaction or not. In fact, unless they happen to be reading LTWWB, they don’t even know they got a reaction. I’m pretty sure they didn’t do any of these things openly when anyone might call them on it. I know I’ve never seen anyone do any of these things, but I have seen the evidence of every one of these disgusting behaviours.People do these things, my boy, because it is convenient (for them), or funny (to them). They are not thinking about anyone else’s reaction. They are not thinking about anyone else at all.I happen to believe that those who still hold out hope for society have a responsibility to object to the kind of behavior DS describes. You, of course, are free to hold a different opinion. You are also free to revel in the disolution of civility that your indifference is helping to accelerate.
This is a good bitch because I was in the grocery store and boxes of Turtles were wide open, some half empty, some with one or two in the box and others empty. One other time I went to pick up the last seafood sub and saw a bite had been taken out of it and this also happened with a pound cake I wanted to buy. Both times the teeth marks were there. I also hate when people leave their carts in the middle of the aisle and go to another part of the store. I also hate it when 2 people block the whole aisle with their carts so they can have a chit chat.
Humans are the dirties species on the planet. The attitude of some people still surprises me, which surprises me when i think about it. For someone to say that people have shitty attitudes to and do fucked up things to get a re-action is a sign that they are as much of a douche-bag as the fuck-heads that do fucked up things. And Jon, you seem like a douche-bag that the OP described. People that the OP describe help me to be the misanthrope that I am. Kind of makes me wish I was a hermit.
Great bitch.PS I was looking for a prize.
Scott, you’re a misanthrope because you choose to be, just as Miranda chooses to sit in her ivory tower and criticize those she thinks are her inferiors. Perception is what it is and Viego makes more sense than anyone yet. Touche!
So jon, you really, truly believe that nobody should object to somebody taking a bite out of a sandwich in a store and putting it back on the shelf? Is that what you are telling us? That anyone who is disgusted by that, and says so, is a “judgemental old bag” who should mind her own business? And if so, how far would someone have to go, in your opinion, before the rest of us would be justified in raising an objection?
on a slightly unrelated note: please don’t buy the boxes of chicken breasts. They have like 18% mean protein in them and taste like ass. The texture is disgusting. Yuck.granted there aren’t many garbage cans outside of the entry ways of most grocery stores, you COULD just leave your stuff IN the card and hand it to the cashier to throw away. lord knows I’ve had requests to use my garbage can at my cash when I worked at superstore. It’s really not THAT hard to ask us (just don’t shove it in our faces without asking — that’s hella rude).*sigh* people, by nature, are pigs and have no concern for one another when it comes right down to it. anyone who denies that is living in a dreamworld.
Hey prettykitty gotta agree with you on the chicken thing, however, if you want decent chicken around here you gotta pay out of your ass.
When it all boils down to it Miranda, the external world we see is simply a reflection of the way we feel inside. As I said earlier, before Viego pulled the rug out from under me, I was attacking D.S.’s judgment of all these things…being a devil’s advocate, so to speak. I agree with any and all actions which show disrespect to other human beings or to the environment, so any judgment can be justified. (The actions of the guilty are their own proof in this matrix where so much seems to be real) I was simply trying to point out that noticing these things in abundance mirror the content of the perceiver and as the old saying goes, it’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness. My mistake is that I was doing it on a ‘bitch’ site which makes no sense at all. Seriously Miranda, you really have to consider that those who show little respect for others have little respect for themselves, as in the greater reality, there is only One. That’s why the Golden Rule makes sense. There are Universal Laws that make giving reciprocal, and karmic rules that bite you in the ass eventually. Anyway, I like the way you express your condescending beliefs. My curiosity now is directed towards pretty kitty and how she became an expert on the taste of ass.
Dude, where are the comments?
Oh, there they are. Couldn’t see them until after I posted. Weird.I get where you’re coming from, Jon. I disagree with you. I don’t believe in karma or “Universal Laws” or any of that hippy dippy new agey drivel. And I certainly don’t believe people are disrespectful out of a lack of self respect. People are disrespectful because they consider themselves more important than the person or persons they are being disrespectful to. The idea that “perception mirrors the content of the perceiver” is utterly ridiculous. If you can walk through a grocery store and not “perceive” the things DS is referring to, you’ve got your head up your ass. Self awareness isn’t much use if you’re oblivious to everything else. That’s ok though. I can agree to disagree. But you haven’t answered my question. At what point does it become ok to stand up and say, “That is not acceptable”? How bad does behavior have to be before objecting to it ceases to be judgemental old baggery, and becomes a valid complaint?
Back to those boxes of chicken. I swear those are what caused my Heart Attack, when I was 33. I are them too often, a box a month or so. It could have been the ones I burnt to a crisp and still ate, but ultimately it was still the boxed chicken. Do not eat that shit it is bad for humans.And before some fucker goes on about how I do not take care of myself or that I must be a fat fuck, Shut Up. I could be a bit more physically active, if my wife would say yes more often..ooops that is another bitch and I am just kidding… I hike often as possible, I roller blade, quite difficult in Halifax(hills and traffic)and walked all over the place as I sold my car before I moved here. I eat well all my veggies and plenty of taste food that does not grow in this country. I weighted about 150lbs and I am about 5’7” or 8” And the regulars might remember, I smoke; about a half a pack a day. I swear it was the chicken wings and those other chick wannabe parts in a box. But that usually gets a lot of laughs from those that are not uncomfortable talking about heart attacks. Doctors usually cock their head and look at me when I say that.Perhaps, jon was a philosophy student or one from days gone by. You do know that philosophy is only useful if you are going to teach philosophy. Perhaps it may be useful if you were nearing brain dead. Yo know, if you do not have the ability to rationalize, use common sense (uncommon now), think critically, logically deduce, or have a hole in you imagination. And ethics should not have to be taught. I guess a philosophy class is for people that are reTarded in one or more of these facets.Wow…Can I possible rant and ramble some more? What the fuck did the Holidays do to me?
Ya know, years ago I worked in a second hand store. I once found shit bundled up in a skirt when I was straightening out a bin. This is why I shrug at this whole issue. Some people are pigs, it ain’t gonna change so deal with it.
Back in my Sobeys days, it was not uncommon for me to notice people putting perishables behind things on the grocery shelves. My favourite was the salmon I found behind a paper towel display. Seriously, that kind of idiocy costs stores money, which gets passed onto us in the long run.Grocery stores don’t put garbage cans inside the store due to customers tossing out perfectly good product into them. There are usually cans outside for your Tims cups and such.