Overcharged? Or Under?

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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No worries there, I don't think I was cheated, was just musing
Did I make out on the mixup or lose out. It's definitely not much
either way.

I'm amazed. This thread is almost 12 hours old and no one has told you
exactly how much you cheated the store and that you should return to pay the
difference and that children are starving around the world because you stole
their ginger.

Julia Altshuler said:

Sheldon said:

Julia Altshuler said:

Nancy Young wrote:

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>That's what I wondered. ?This could be a good game ... what would
>come on the list between garlic and ginger, alphabetically?

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I am unable to resist a good word puzzle. ?Thus, with dictionary in
hand, I offer:

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*garlic chives*
geckos
gefilte fish
gelatin
*geranium flowers*
ghee
gila monster
gigot

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(The starred items are the only ones which could, at a stretch,
seriously be found in the produce section. ?The others are words I liked
or items I'd love to see in the produce section some day.)

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You forgot:
garnish
gazpacho
gherkin
and of course gin

I wonder what gila monster tastes like.

Probably chicken... you don't want me to tell you what it really
tastes like. hehe

Sheldon

Edwin Pawlowski said:

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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No worries there, I don't think I was cheated, was just musing
Did I make out on the mixup or lose out. It's definitely not much
either way.

I'm amazed. This thread is almost 12 hours old and no one has told you
exactly how much you cheated the store and that you should return to
pay the difference and that children are starving around the world
because you stole their ginger.

Stolen ginger is a *big* crime! Actually, I'd be more upset if she stole
garlic since it's one of my favourite ingredients! And did I [censored] when the
wench at the grocery store charged me for the kale I bought for my lovebird
and then didn't put it in the bag?! So I was charged for it but came home
with none. Waaaaaah!

Jill

"Edwin Pawlowski" <[email hidden]> wrote

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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No worries there, I don't think I was cheated, was just musing
Did I make out on the mixup or lose out. It's definitely not much
either way.

I'm amazed. This thread is almost 12 hours old and no one has told you
exactly how much you cheated the store and that you should return to pay
the difference and that children are starving around the world because you
stole their ginger.

Heh, someone's probably thinking it. Thought I'd cut that
off at the pass by saying, no, I'm not going back to the store
one way or another, so don't go there. Right now it's swimming
around in my marinade.

nancy

Julia Altshuler said:

You might enjoy this short article on the subject :-)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/08/taking_time_for_weighty_matters/

short-weighting is discussed in the torah and the old testament as
well. (they disapprove it.)

your pal,
blake

On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:01:45 -0400, "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]>

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"blake murphy" <[email hidden]> wrote

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On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:04:08 -0400, "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

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Wonder if she didn't know what it was, or if she just keyed
in the wrong number.

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oddly enough, the same thing almost happened to me. she first rang it
up as garlic (after looking in the book, as i recall), but then
corrected her mistake.

@$2.99 a pound, a piece a little bigger than the end of my thumb
(0.01 pound), it costed three cents.

(what rankled me was that the only produce bags they had were for
greens, about the length of my arm. i bare-handed it instead.)

Oh, I go commando with that stuff all the time. (laugh) I hardly ever
get a produce bag, and sometimes I really should. Who wants my
dirty potatoes rolling around the checkout thing. Ooops.

nancy

i don't know what's up with this store. (a giant, for those of you in
the d.c. metro area.) it seems they've had nothing but these
gargantuan bags for at least a month.

your pal,
blake

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

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I have no idea. I bought a piece of ginger a few minutes
ago, when I looked over the receipt, I saw that the cashier
rang it up as garlic. Next time I'm in the store I'll check to
see if one costs more per lb than the other.

Okay, here was my score. I got .17 pounds of ginger
at $2.99 a pound rather than $3.99 a pound. Money saved:
26 cents. I hope the store doesn't go out of business.

nancy

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

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I have no idea. I bought a piece of ginger a few minutes
ago, when I looked over the receipt, I saw that the cashier
rang it up as garlic. Next time I'm in the store I'll check to
see if one costs more per lb than the other.

Okay, here was my score. I got .17 pounds of ginger
at $2.99 a pound rather than $3.99 a pound. Money saved:
26 cents. I hope the store doesn't go out of business.

nancy

Is your poster up on the post office wall yet among the other top ten
most wanted? If so is there anyway to get several 5 by 8's sent to me?

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

"hahabogus" <[email hidden]> wrote

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Okay, here was my score. I got .17 pounds of ginger
at $2.99 a pound rather than $3.99 a pound. Money saved:
26 cents. I hope the store doesn't go out of business.

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Is your poster up on the post office wall yet among the other top ten
most wanted? If so is there anyway to get several 5 by 8's sent to me?

(laugh!) I wouldn't do that to you, Alan.

nancy

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

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I have no idea. I bought a piece of ginger a few minutes
ago, when I looked over the receipt, I saw that the cashier
rang it up as garlic. Next time I'm in the store I'll check to
see if one costs more per lb than the other.

Okay, here was my score. I got .17 pounds of ginger
at $2.99 a pound rather than $3.99 a pound. Money saved:
26 cents. I hope the store doesn't go out of business.

nancy

Neat! Now don't spend it all in one place!

Felice

hahabogus said:

Is your poster up on the post office wall yet among the other top ten
most wanted?

In some places, she would be in the top ten most wanted. Take a look at the top
ten in Sumter County, Florida:

http://dailycommercialonline.com/mostwanted/sumtercounty.pdf

Maybe her crime was not quite as big those, but where are the murderers,
rapists, and bank robbers? ;-) If those are their top ten, it must be a much
safer place than where I live.

--
wff_ng_7 (at) verizon (dot) net

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

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"hahabogus" <[email hidden]> wrote

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Okay, here was my score. I got .17 pounds of ginger
at $2.99 a pound rather than $3.99 a pound. Money saved:
26 cents. I hope the store doesn't go out of business.

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Is your poster up on the post office wall yet among the other top ten
most wanted? If so is there anyway to get several 5 by 8's sent to me?

(laugh!) I wouldn't do that to you, Alan.

nancy

But I'd love a sketch, crayon or otherwise, painting or photograph of
you. Sent a skulpture if all else fails. Bronze Placque? Image in silly
putty? Plaster Bust?

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

Julia Altshuler said:

Steve Wertz said:

Julia Altshuler said:

You might enjoy this short article on the subject :-)

Ugh, what a lame... err... wonderful story/article!

Oh, good. Then you caught the point of the article.

That it was written by you? Yes. I didn't see it under the
headline, but noticed it at the end of the article.

But I *have* stuck my foot in my mouth on just this kind of
occasion before - bashing a website hosted by a (former) regular.

-sw

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

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I have no idea. I bought a piece of ginger a few minutes
ago, when I looked over the receipt, I saw that the cashier
rang it up as garlic. Next time I'm in the store I'll check to
see if one costs more per lb than the other.

Okay, here was my score. I got .17 pounds of ginger
at $2.99 a pound rather than $3.99 a pound. Money saved:
26 cents. I hope the store doesn't go out of business.

LOL. I'm sure the store has more than made up for their loss by now by
(accidentally?) overcharging some other customer for something.

Mary

"MareCat" <[email hidden]> wrote

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

I have no idea. I bought a piece of ginger a few minutes
ago, when I looked over the receipt, I saw that the cashier
rang it up as garlic. Next time I'm in the store I'll check to
see if one costs more per lb than the other.

Okay, here was my score. I got .17 pounds of ginger
at $2.99 a pound rather than $3.99 a pound. Money saved:
26 cents. I hope the store doesn't go out of business.

LOL. I'm sure the store has more than made up for their loss by now by
(accidentally?) overcharging some other customer for something.

Now that you mention it, once I complained in writing about a
couple of things, one of them being that the nuts they sold were
rancid. The store manager told me there was a $25 voucer for me
at the desk. I didn't pick it up. Consider this episode me getting
my 25 bucks a hundredth at a time. (laugh)

nancy

wff_ng_7 said:

hahabogus said:

Is your poster up on the post office wall yet among the other top ten
most wanted?

In some places, she would be in the top ten most wanted. Take a look
at the top ten in Sumter County, Florida:

http://dailycommercialonline.com/mostwanted/sumtercounty.pdf

Maybe her crime was not quite as big those, but where are the
murderers, rapists, and bank robbers? ;-) If those are their top ten,
it must be a much safer place than where I live.

Perhaps the murderers and rapists aren't stupid enough to get themselves
photographed. Actually, non-payment of child support is a darned good
reason to be "wanted". You got to pay to play (so to speak).

Jill

Steve Wertz said:

But I *have* stuck my foot in my mouth on just this kind of
occasion before - bashing a website hosted by a (former) regular.

I suppose if something truly needs bashing, it's O.K., just as bashing
people's taste in food is O.K. on usenet. But I was pretty sure that
column was innocuous. If anyone wanted to bash it, it would be for its
off-topic quality, not for anything worse.

--Lia

jmcquown said:

wff_ng_7 said:

hahabogus said:

Is your poster up on the post office wall yet among the other top ten
most wanted?

In some places, she would be in the top ten most wanted. Take a look
at the top ten in Sumter County, Florida:

http://dailycommercialonline.com/mostwanted/sumtercounty.pdf

Maybe her crime was not quite as big those, but where are the
murderers, rapists, and bank robbers? ;-) If those are their top ten,
it must be a much safer place than where I live.

Perhaps the murderers and rapists aren't stupid enough to get themselves
photographed. Actually, non-payment of child support is a darned good
reason to be "wanted". You got to pay to play (so to speak).

I agree it's an important issue, I was just surprised there were NONE of the
really big crimes that scare people in most communities. That's quite a contrast
to the most wanted list here in Washington, DC. There's not a single child
support case in the bunch. Also, we don't have a ten most wanted. Ten is too
small a number! ;-) Instead we have on the most wanted list:

10 homicide
4 sexual assault
8 aggravated assault
2 armed robbery
1 burglary
3 theft
1 carjacking
1 cocaine distribution
1 fugitive
1 scam artist
1 child abduction
1 kidnapping

--
wff_ng_7 (at) verizon (dot) net

wff_ng_7 said:

jmcquown said:

wff_ng_7 said:

"hahabogus" <[email hidden]> wrote:
> Is your poster up on the post office wall yet among the other top ten
> most wanted?

In some places, she would be in the top ten most wanted. Take a look
at the top ten in Sumter County, Florida:

http://dailycommercialonline.com/mostwanted/sumtercounty.pdf

Maybe her crime was not quite as big those, but where are the
murderers, rapists, and bank robbers? ;-) If those are their top ten,
it must be a much safer place than where I live.

Perhaps the murderers and rapists aren't stupid enough to get themselves
photographed. Actually, non-payment of child support is a darned good
reason to be "wanted". You got to pay to play (so to speak).

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I agree it's an important issue, I was just surprised there were NONE of the
really big crimes that scare people in most communities. That's quite a contrast
to the most wanted list here in Washington, DC. There's not a single child
support case in the bunch. Also, we don't have a ten most wanted. Ten is too
small a number! ;-) Instead we have on the most wanted list:

That's because the list is *all* about child support payment. This is a
fairly well established tactic in the field of child support, to publicize
the names and other information on the guys (usually) with the largest
amount of back child support due. No other crimes are ever going to be
on that list.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

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That's because the list is *all* about child support payment. This is a
fairly well established tactic in the field of child support, to publicize
the names and other information on the guys (usually) with the largest
amount of back child support due. No other crimes are ever going to be
on that list.

Actually that's not true. There have been other crimes on the list, but not as
often as child support. In the same newspaper, there's the most wanted list for
the adjacent county, and there is not one child support case currently on it.
The second county (Lake) is much more developed than the first county (Sumter).
One would expect more serious crimes to occur in a more urban and higher
population area than a rural area. Not that one can really use the term "urban"
in either of these counties.

Compare:

http://dailycommercialonline.com/mostwanted/sumtercounty.pdf
http://dailycommercialonline.com/mostwanted/lakecounty.pdf

I first got into this because a good for nothing relative of mine is likely to
appear in one of those two lists eventually, and it won't be for child support.
I don't depend on the newspaper for except as another source of information.
It's amazing what you can get with online police, court and criminal records
these days.

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wff_ng_7 (at) verizon (dot) net