unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I went to get DD some sicilian pizza. In the checkout, I was the third person in line. The conveyor belt was empty and it looked like the first person was paying. The second person put her pastry bag on the moving conveyor belt and it (the pastry bag) toddled along happily until it reached the end. The first person grabbed the innocent little pastry bag and THREW it back down the conveyor belt. Pastry assault. I'd never thought I'd witness it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 How odd. :confused1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Did the cashier say anything? What a crazy woman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Somebody needs to go to time out for a little bit. I have a friend who always stops and prays for the perpetrators when she witnesses something like this. She figures they are having a hard time with something and could use a prayer. My reaction to witnessing that is to roll my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Did the cashier say anything? What a crazy woman! The cashier said don't do that but the pastry thrower just walked off. Then the cashier said I'm sorry to the pastry owner. The funny thing was since the belt started moving again after she threw it, it was just back down where it started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I went to get DD some sicilian pizza. In the checkout, I was the third person in line. The conveyor belt was empty and it looked like the first person was paying. The second person put her pastry bag on the moving conveyor belt and it (the pastry bag) toddled along happily until it reached the end. The first person grabbed the innocent little pastry bag and THREW it back down the conveyor belt. Pastry assault. I'd never thought I'd witness it. Oh dear. How scathingly you could have chidden that woman! :D (I can't resist importing a joke from the now-disappeared thread.) Enjoy your pizza! O-6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Oh dear. How scathingly you could have chidden that woman! :D (I can't resist importing a joke from the now-disappeared thread.) Enjoy your pizza! O-6 I should have verily chidden her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Pastry assault. I'd never thought I'd witness it. I have a friend who always stops and prays for the perpetrators "Pastry perp"? :smilielol5: I swear this board expands my horizons a bit every day. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 The woman sounds like a real nut. I don't think I have ever seen anyone get offended by conveyor belt infringement, but maybe I just don't get out enough. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Crimes against patisserie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Sounds like someone needs a hug and a pastry of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 "Pastry perp"? :smilielol5: I swear this board expands my horizons a bit every day. :D How often in life do you they to use that phrase! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Sounds like someone needs a hug and a pastry of their own. You're a lot nicer than I. I think her actions prove she should never again be allowed within 100 meters of cream puffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 The woman sounds like a real nut. I don't think I have ever seen anyone get offended by conveyor belt infringement, but maybe I just don't get out enough. :rolleyes: So you're saying homeschool kids do not have the under socialized market cornered? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraha Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Thank you for the laughs! I opened this thread just when I needed it most! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFG Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Maybe she is trying to go gluten free. Or trying to free gluten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I'm surprised the cashier didn't turn off the belt after the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 The woman sounds like a real nut. I don't think I have ever seen anyone get offended by conveyor belt infringement, but maybe I just don't get out enough. :rolleyes: conveyor belt infringement! BWAH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateReignRemix Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 The woman sounds like a real nut. I don't think I have ever seen anyone get offended by conveyor belt infringement, but maybe I just don't get out enough. :rolleyes: I won't say it happened often, but I saw it now and then when I was a cashier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 What is a pastry bag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Crimes against patisserie. oo, la-la! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 she probably is having a hard day. where are the dividers when you need them? :willy_nilly: (I probably would have handed one to her - to "help" her seperate her items from the pastry. it's a more subtle way of chiding her. ;) . . . so glad I got to see that thread before it was gone. usually I miss all the fun.) probably not freaking like a child that her food was inedible because other food touched it, but maybe paranoid the chasier would charge for pastry she wasn't going to get to eat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 What is a pastry bag? A waxed bag which holds pastries...or donuts...or muffins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 oo, la-la! this is incomplete. :glare: we have been known to frequent a danish pastry place. dh's like sarah bernhardts. chocolate mousse on a chocolate macaroon, dipped in chocolate and topped with minced pistachio. I'm partial to a 'lowly' potato. choux pastry, pastry cream, covered with marzipan and cocoa powder eta: must resist must resist . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 When I think of a pastry bag, I think of that squeeze bag used by highly skilled pastry chefs. Loved that diagram of pastry types! Wish I had something to accompany a cup of hot tea during this rainy, stormy day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 The funny thing was since the belt started moving again after she threw it, it was just back down where it started. That was my first thought -- if the belt isn't turned off, the bag will just keep ending up in the same spot. The stupidity of not realizing that it would move back probably bothers me more than tossing the bag in the first place. And, depending on my mood, I might've burst out laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 This thread made me LOL . THank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Be gone, devilish pastries! In her defense, it's incredibly difficult to say "that's not mine" if the checker had started to ring it up with her items.* (*ETA: Just in case it wasn't clear, that was sarcasm.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 That was my first thought -- if the belt isn't turned off, the bag will just keep ending up in the same spot. The stupidity of not realizing that it would move back probably bothers me more than tossing the bag in the first place. And, depending on my mood, I might've burst out laughing. It may not have been stupidity as much as frustration and/or just trying to pay and get her own stuff out of the way before the pastry struck again. I understand the belts are often rigged to move automatically, but I will confess to some irritation when spaces I've left intentionally between my own selections and those of the person behind me in line begin colliding, especially when those interloping items are things that are problematic for me or my family. For example, a package of juicy, dripping raw meat that I'd much rather not have contaminate my vegan groceries? I've had it happen and had both the checker and the other customer act like it's no big deal, which is, I'm sorry, infuriating. Someone else mentioned, possibly as a joke, that the woman might be trying to go gluten free. But what if that's not a joke to her at all? What if she has a family member who suffers from celiac and she is trying to avoid contamination? Be gone, devilish pastries! In her defense, it's incredibly difficult to say "that's not mine" if the checker had started to ring it up with her items. That, too. I've actually come home with items I did not place in my cart or among my selections on the belt. And, again, especially if it's something that one truly doesn't want in one's home, that's actually pretty annoying. (And, to add insult to injury, it probably means one paid for said item, too.) I mean, sure, maybe she was just a jerk having a bad day, and I'm not defending the actual pastry abuse. But I don't think it's necessarily as indefensible as folks here want to make it sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Now the important questions: Did the pastry perp flounce when she left the lane? Did the clerk, out of her adherence to honorable customer service, offer to discount the banged up baked good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 There was nothing on the conveyor belt when the second woman and I walked up and she put the *bag containing her pastries* down on the belt. I wrote in the OP it looked like the first person was paying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 It may not have been stupidity as much as frustration and/or just trying to pay and get her own stuff out of the way before the pastry struck again. But the OP said the belt was already EMPTY when the second customer put the bag of pastries on it. The examples you give (dripping meat, something rung up with your purchase, etc.) certainly could be frustrating, but that's why they make those plastic divider rods. And in this particular situation there wasn't anything to divide, since the belt was empty to start with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 But the OP said the belt was already EMPTY when the second customer put the bag of pastries on it. The examples you give (dripping meat, something rung up with your purchase, etc.) certainly could be frustrating, but that's why they make those plastic divider rods. And in this particular situation there wasn't anything to divide, since the belt was empty to start with. Oh dear. I sincerely apologize for not using every bit of my brainpower to read carefully enough to notice that part. (The dividers don't work to fix the situations I mentioned, though. The conveyer belts just push stuff right up over the dividers.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I always figure those belts are pretty grungy, and thus likely to contaminate my groceries with rogue gluten or meat drippings regardless of what I place where. And if customers make it a habit to toss groceries down the length of the belt, I'd picture air born gluten, etc., landing all over. Another grocery-tossing story I just remembered: The other day I saw a woman tossing all of the avocados in a large display around while looking for a nice one. I pointed out that she was bruising them for future customers (believe it or not, I said it nicely and sympathetically). She said it didn't matter because they were softer than she liked them anyway. :confused1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 The cashier said don't do that but the pastry thrower just walked off. Then the cashier said I'm sorry to the pastry owner. The funny thing was since the belt started moving again after she threw it, it was just back down where it started. God Bless people who work in retail, they really do see the worst of peoples' behavior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Oh dear. I sincerely apologize for not using every bit of my brainpower to read carefully enough to notice that part. (The dividers don't work to fix the situations I mentioned, though. The conveyer belts just push stuff right up over the dividers.) Really? The conveyor belts around here stop whenever something gets to the metal weigh/scan area. That "something" includes the divider. So when the divider gets to the weigh/scan the entire belt stops running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivingHope Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 My DH is a grocery tosser. He just can't help juggling oranges, kiwis, avocados, tomatoes...whenever he's in the produce department. He puts any of the dropped produce in his cart to purchase though. What a clown! ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 That must've livened up an otherwise mundane trip to the grocery store! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 A waxed bag which holds pastries...or donuts...or muffins. That is what I thought the OP meant but I have never heard it called that. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Yeahhhh, I spent too much time in retail for that to surprise me. :huh: I had a guy threaten to kill me for giving him a golden dollar instead of a paper one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I like to think there is some backstory. Maybe the bag putter and the bag thrower are ancient enemies cursed to spend eternity annoying each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 oo, la-la! So long as it wasn't a macaron. That is a crime against humanity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 :drool5: I could go for a pastry. That was pretty rude behavior btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I like to think there is some backstory. Maybe the bag putter and the bag thrower are ancient enemies cursed to spend eternity annoying each other. The Moriarty to her Sherlock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I would want a fresh, uninjured pastry. I hope she exchanged! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I think this thread calls for a glossary of pastry-related criminal terms (plus, I don't want to fold my laundry right now, so this is a welcome distraction :tongue_smilie: ). We've already got pastry assault and crimes against patisserie. For your consideration: - crime de la creme - or alternatively: creme de la crime - pastry abuse - cakenapping - pastrytution - EPWI (Eating Pastry While Intoxicated) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 ...get behind thee, pastry..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Hahaha! Pastrytution...legal in parts of Nevada! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Hahaha! Pastrytution...legal in parts of Nevada! It is the world's oldest profession! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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