An encounter at Safeway.

[Wiglaf]

I am sure the cashier is logging onto a dorky internet site to moan about his customers at Safeway. And the Indian lady will make a quilt about this encounter in a desperate attempt to get attention from the Sun god. OH NO WAIT I'M MIXING THEM UP WITH YOU Maybe you should realize that they have ranks in the navy instead of fancy lingo, I am out of time for you and your tales of a woman stacking sauerkraut.

[Asher]

Him: Oh! I was in the navy too!

This is actually gay code for "I'd like to **** you".

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Asher

Him: Oh! I was in the navy too!

This is actually gay code for "I'd like to **** you".

Well, I suppose you would know better than me.

Maybe you should realize that they have ranks in the navy instead of fancy lingo, I am out of time for you and your tales of a woman stacking sauerkraut.

I don't think you know what rates and ranks are.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Well, I suppose you would know better than me.

Please, I'm an amateur. You were in the navy.

[Krill]

*sigh* poor Lonestar, shopping at safeway...still better than Tesco.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Lonestar

I don't think you know what rates and ranks are.

Just a guess, E1's thru E7's?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Theben


Just a guess, E1's thru E7's?

That would be ranks.

Rates are job specialties.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Re: An encounter at Safeway.

Originally posted by Lonestar
Him: Looks like you've made some bad liiiiiiife choices!

Me: Look, you're just some guy at Safeway. Can you hurry it up? I have a real job and am very tired.

You know, I must say I admire your restraint. If a 20-something Safeway cashier had commented on my life choices, I'd have unleashed something a little more pointed, sarcastic, and expletive-laden. Must be that military discipline!

[Lancer]

The meat is better at Fred Meyers but the bakery is better at Safeway.

Nothing really to do with anything, but I had nothing really to add, so I did.

[Lonestar]

Re: Re: An encounter at Safeway.

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


You know, I must say I admire your restraint. If a 20-something Safeway cashier had commented on my life choices, I'd have unleashed something a little more pointed, sarcastic, and expletive-laden. Must be that military discipline!

As strange as it may not sound, I am not very combative in real life. That was really all I could muster.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Lonestar


Well, I suppose you would know better than me.


I don't think you know what rates and ranks are.

Aren't rates for the enlisted people, and ranks for the ossifers?

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Lonestar


That would be ranks.

Rates are job specialties.

I see you already answered it. So it'd be like, "nuclear engineer", "gunner", "poop-deck swabber", and the like?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

Aren't rates for the enlisted people, and ranks for the ossifers?

If I were to say "What rate are you?" the sailor I am asking would say "Yeoman/Gunnersmate/I'm a dumb**** undesignated deck seaman".

"SEAL" is not a rate.

[Asher]

I wonder if you realize the fact that you spent a bunch of time on a boat is not that interesting. Yet you discuss it a lot.

Why?

[Darius871]

About a year back the mulleted customer in front of me at the Jubilee was checking out precisely two items: one bottle of isopropyl rubbing alcohol, and one bottle of orange juice. Was I a bad guy for not warning him that it's not such a good idea?