Supermarket Checkouts

By admin, December 23rd, 2011 | Randomness | 0 Comments

Rider and Him Indoors only wanted a few things forgotten for Xmas. Supermarket self checkouts are not used due to a hatred of machines that talk at you but never say what you want to hear, not enough room to pack and store full bags of shopping and wanting to keep people in work. However on this occasion Him Indoors took charge as men often do when they rarely do the weekly shop. Suffice to say we left the shop with an extra item in the bag than appeared on the checkout list – a stick of celery. Oh dear…. Rider is worried. Will our faces appear on some security camera and then in the local paper? ‘Parish Clerk and husband steal stick of celery’. Will there be a knock on the door just as presents are being exchanged on Xmas morning? Will Rider be hauled away leaving family to sob into their Xmas Bucks Fizz whilst they cook beans on toast since turkey will be off with no-one with the knowhow to cook it? Perhaps celery should be buried in the garden or burnt to destroy the evidence. It isn’t a very large stick – and to be honest it doesn’t have much of a heart as supermarket bought ones often don’t – it would have hardly been worth paying for. Do you think the Judge would be convinced ? Rider is forced to wonder how many shoplifters are actually innocent and whether the machine would have registered bottles of wine instead of a stick of celery which would have at least given going to goal more street cred. Merry Christmas. S:^)