Egging a Repuke at the grocery store

[packman]

Last edited Mon Aug 22, 2022, 01:10 PM - Edit history (1)

Waiting behind a guy at the egg cooler to get done. He was replacing his regular-size eggs with the Jumbo ones, transferring eggs from one container to the next,

After a minute of waiting and watching, I couldn't help myself.

"Pardon me," I said, "But, I bet you're a Republican"


He turned around with a smile on his face, "Yes, how do know?"- Big grin

"Oh, just a guess the way you're looking out for yourself at the expense of another."

He paused, put down the jumbo eggs (now 1/2 filled with smaller ones), muttered something and left.

[Jade Fox]

1. Love it! nt

[Beachnutt]

2. He was probably stocking the church refrigerator

[Atticus]

3. Well played! nt

[dameatball]

4. Sheesh. I've been around since the 50's and have never seen anyone do that. Very strange.

[calimary]

19. Yeah, no kidding. That's a new one. Sneak-cheating.

And lower-than-low.

Republican. No wonder, no surprise.

[Sanity Claws]

48. My story

I bought a box of light bulbs and not a single bulb worked. Every single one had been used and burned out.

Some jerk must have saved up his used bulbs, purchased a box of new bulbs, inserted the old bulbs in the new box and returned the box with the old bulbs.
All that for a few dollars.

This happened about 20 - 25 years ago and I still remember it.

[SWBTATTReg]

49. Good lord! This is getting pretty desperate, pretty low, and also, no care about the next customer

getting stuck w/ the bad bulbs. How uncaring. Thanks for your story, I don't think anyone could make up a story like this. Good grief!

[True Blue American]

58. On a board

People were griping about no clerks to ring out their stuff, one woman boasted that she shoved $300 worth of groceries and left them. She hoped her ice cream melted before they found then. Another poster answered it would be just my luck to get your melted ice cream!

This was on a neighborhood board that was created to help each other.

[dameatball]

55. I guess it happens. Pretty sad.

[Beartracks]

80. I once bought a large ergonomic mouse... except that it wasn't.

It was a partially filled bottle of Coke. Which I discovered like a year later when I finally opened the box.



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[LeftInTX]

71. I see people do that all the time!

This was back in the 80's, so it goes way back.

But then again, I'm in Texas...

[dameatball]

72. Maybe it is more common then I thought. I check my eggs for damage and expiration date. Until I read

the op I never even knew people switched sizes.

[LeftInTX]

74. It starts out this way, then it's easy to progress

In Texas people swap out their cracked eggs. Cracked eggs used to be very common here. Couldn't a find complete carton of uncracked, so people would swap.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

79. I won't buy cracked eggs.

I simply look at cartons to find one with no cracked eggs. I rarely have to look at more than one or two cartons.

[alphafemale]

88. I think swapping out the cracked eggs is perfectly fair.

There is usually a carton or two for the bad eggs if you know what you looking for and how to spot it.

[DenaliDemocrat]

84. The jokes on them

Jumbo eggs are lesser quality. Used to be no such thing as a AA Jumbo egg. I think that changed but I used to work for the Dept of Ag and knew quite a few egg candlers. I was a pesticide/groundwater specialist.

[Rabrrrrrr]

94. Lesser quality in what way?

I only buy my eggs from farmer's now so I can't get jumbos (or have any choice in size, really, they come rather randomly sized because they're real chickens fed real food), but I used to buy jumbos because I liked the nice big egg and the occasional double yolk was a total win.

[progressoid]

85. Me neither.

And I worked in a grocery store for four years.

[wryter2000]

5. And to what purpose?

What benefit was he going to get from doing that? How much more egg would he get? Jumbo is the wrong size for recipes, anyway. Stupid.

[Samrob]

10. More cholesterol for his medical insurance to handle. nt

[Higherarky]

17. Always look on the bright side of life!

Haha!! Goodonya, Friend!

[dflprincess]

76. He's a cheapskate who thought he'd save a few cents

Then claim he's never stolen anything.

[lunatica]

86. Bragging rights to impress his wife.

[durablend]

6. Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeety sure that's shoplifting....

But the left are the crooks

Uh huh....

[rurallib]

14. probably to save less than a buck

[Doc Sportello]

7. Good for you

Great response. I do wonder if he left because of shame or afraid you would report him. My guess is the latter.

[MyOwnPeace]

54. I agree..............

I have seen NO PROOF that any of them have any shame.......

[dchill]

8. I have never bought or otherwise sought a jumbo egg.

Is there something wrong with me? (The answer is yes, but that's not it.)

[Samrob]

9. Great job! Who else but a Republican would have thought to do that? nt

[Initech]

11. Busted!

Last night I had to hear my Fox loving neighbors drone on about how people don't want to work because of government handouts and the democrats owning the media. Needless to say after dinner I got out of there as quickly as possible.

[3catwoman3]

75. "...and the Democrats owning the media."

I wish!

[FM123]

12. Perfect. Every word you said to him.

[sagetea]

13. Ha!!

Chef's kiss!! Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!!!

sage

[gab13by13]

15. Last week I went to buy a dozen golf balls,

I picked up the box, it was empty. A worker was nearby so I say, where's the golf balls? He says at the check out, people switch good balls for cheap balls. The thought crossed my mind, it's Magats.

[calimary]

20. It's a shame stores have to do that.

But they have to.

Sheesh. And they’ll probably insist with great smugness that they’re more “Christian” than you are. Even though their behavior clearly indicates they don’t even understand the meaning of the word.

[True Blue American]

59. I once worked

For a short time in a lingerie Department. We would find old,soiled girdles in the boxes. One reason I did not stay long!

[KS Toronado]

16. Great fast thinking!

[Farmer-Rick]

18. Hehe, good for you for calling him out

I made the mistake of not looking into a carton of eggs
I bought at the grocery store one day. Found cracked and distorted eggs inside along with some teeny tiny ones. It was the last "no cage" carton of eggs there. I think everyone put all the bad eggs in it.

In my defence I don't normally buy eggs as I have chickens. But it was winter and a possum had raided my chicken coop.

[BradAllison]

21. He probably stuffs his shorts with a sock too n/m

[calimary]

22. Hah! Good one!

[geardaddy]

35. LOL

Zing!

[littlemissmartypants]

44. Budgie smugglers are the worst!

❤

[Grumpy Old Guy]

23. Jeez, what an a$$hole!

Performs a criminal act just for the sake of a bigger omelette. It makes you wonder what other dishonest acts he commits.

[Sedona]

24. Me and Mr. Sedona LOVE ❤️ jumbo eggs

Great for hard boiled and deviled 😈

[czarjak]

25. "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'"... They mean it!

[TeamProg]

26. People ACTUALLY DO THAT ?!?! You're joking, right? n/t

[MyOwnPeace]

56. Two years ago.......

while decorating the house for the holidays I had 2 new boxes of lights to decorate the front room. First string went on just great - looked super!
When I opened the second box I discovered that somebody must have bought that box before, took it home, took out the 'new' lights and put the 'old' ones in and 'returned it.
Way to kick in the 'ole holiday spirit!
Fortunately, the store (probably not supposed to say the name, but it rhymes with Roscoe Tanner's first name ) graciously took them back and gave me a new set.
AMAZING what some people will do.........

[orleans]

78. why aren't you supposed to say the name of the store?

i was hit on the back by a falling box stacked way too high on a cart that a jewel employee was pushing behind me and i sued to cover costs for the er and physical therapy i needed for months--anyway, in order to receive my 12 thousand dollars (and the attorney took a third--so i only got 8 which barely covered physical expenses and meds!) i had to sign a paper saying i would never tell anyone!

so... again... why aren't you supposed to say the name of the store?



btw--i would like to try a rhyme with that name...
i'm going with bosco manor

[MyOwnPeace]

81. "why aren't you supposed to say the name of the store?"

I don't know - I just figured that after 'Citizens United' that if I ever had evidence that some corporate entity was acting in a way that wasn't "Scrooge-like" (it was that time of year) - they'd have Empty Green and Curly-Rand Paul all over their case for being some 'Commie/Welfare-loving' entity that was supporting the 'Leftist Agenda' that would put free 'holiday lights' in all homes that were blinking out the LBGDQ agenda in the universally understood code that would transform the world.....

I mean, who wouldn't expect that?

As for the 'rhyme' - just show your sales receipt on the way out - they'll scan your 87 purchases in 10 seconds and you're on your way to 'Big Buggy Bliss!'

[GuppyGal]

70. +1000

[Evolve Dammit]

27. I can't fathom the thought process (or reptilian reflex) that would cause that level of weird...

[sarisataka]

28. Eggsquisite story

It is a rare opportunity to be able to lay someone out like that. I'm sure it left his thoughts scrambled as you prevented the poaching of eggs. Though he put on a hard-boiled exterior your pecking obviously cracked him. Surely he strutted back to his nest but was a mere shell of his former self.

[packman]

32. IS THAT IT----ARE YOU DONE

You left me shell-shocked with those terrible puns or is it all a yolk to you?

[sarisataka]

34. I watched Batman religiously

The old Adam West Batman... I can do this all day

[Higherarky]

36. Thanx for sharing your magnificent talent!

Much appreciated. 👍😁

[packman]

40. Da da da da da BATMAN

Damn, I forgot about Egghead played by the great Vincent Price - DOUBLE DAMN, I look like him

[sarisataka]

43. That's the one

[Paper Roses]

33. Clever reply to this post. My mother used to say:

The more I see people, the more I like dogs and cats.
How can people stoop so low? For a few cents worth of eggs? It scrambles my mind. Good for you for speaking up.

[HoosierDebbie]

41. I'm pretty sure that the egg wrangler had no eggscuses.

Probably not used to confrontation because he is always coddled. Ran away like the chicken he is.

[sarge43]

53. The yolk's on him.

(please don't hurt me)

[littlemissmartypants]

45. DUzy!

[catchnrelease]

47. Good one

I know the spirit of Pinboy3niner is smiling down on you for that one!! He was king of the punsters

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. Bravo!!!

[LisaM]

30. We were just talking about this re Total Wine

When you buy whiskey in a box, they have to open it and make sure it's the right kind (since bottles can be priced in the hundreds, I guess it's a legit concern.

I know it's a problem at self-serve checkouts too. People aren't honest and type in the code for cheaper products.

[Paper Roses]

31. Bravo!

[Kid Berwyn]

37. Wow.

Perfect allegory for today.

[Callalily]

38. You handled the situation extremely well.

I don't think that I would have been so diplomatic.

[aggiesal]

39. The only time I swap out eggs from the carton I have is if there is a cracked egg carton ...

If I have a cracked egg, I take an egg from the carton that has cracked eggs but still has some good ones.
Eventually, the cracked egg carton will have 12 cracked eggs.
I would never swap the sizes though.

[czarjak]

42. Rich White Guy Party member just pinching a few pennies?

[littlemissmartypants]

46. Emulating his thief of a hero probably. Well done, packman.❤

[Marthe48]

50. Well done

That is like switching tags on clothes. Crooked as a dog's hind leg.

[lpbk2713]

51. Probably went back five minutes later.

After he was sure you were in another part of the store.

[Demovictory9]

52. theft!

[SunSeeker]

57. He's a petty shoplifter. Why doesn't he just buy the jumbo egg carton?

It's not much more expensive, he's only saving maybe a dollar.

Someone will buy that carton of jumbo eggs that he just replaced with regular eggs and will be ripped off because of his theft.

I buy jumbo eggs when I need them for deviled eggs, but most times I just get regular sized eggs ("Large" ) for cooking and for breakfast.

It has never even occured to me to switch eggs out like that. Are Republicans always thinking of ways to cheat? Seems like it.

[3catwoman3]

60. It would never occur to me to do this, and if it ever...

...did, I'd be sure I'd get caught.

[True Blue American]

61. Same here!

I would look guilty!

[LeftInTX]

73. Eggs are the number one switch

It starts because people check cartons for broken eggs, then they move cracked eggs into another carton and move uncracked eggs into their carton...

Cracked eggs are common in Texas. (Like there is one in every carton)
I did not see this in Wisconsin though.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

92. "Cracked eggs are common in Texas"?

In the Governor's mansion? In the US Senate seat? Texas AG office?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

62. Saw your OP title and wondered "did they make you clean up the mess?".

.......... .......

A street-level example of GOP profit before people........

You handled that one real well.....

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[OMGWTF]

63. I'm sure he identifies as Christian too.

My brother bought a mobile home from a woman who bragged that she rented a car for a day, took the good tires off the rental and put them on her car. She was also a big-time Xitian.

[Sympthsical]

64. Well, I clapped

[Handler]

65. Well done indeed

[keithbvadu2]

66. "put down the jumbo eggs (now 1/2 filled with smaller ones)"

and then he took the smaller labelled carton half filled with jumbos?

[Blue Owl]

67. Egg on that MAGAt's face

[mopinko]

68. i had a customer at my farm that did that.

went through all the cartons and took all the big ones. there's virtually no diff. a teaspoon of water and you can sub for a xl in any recipe.

[Faux pas]

69. Kickety Kickin'

[Conjuay]

77. he waited for you to leave

and went back to finish his “upgrade”.

[TexasBushwhacker]

82. Geez, the difference between jumbo and regular large eggs

MIGHT be $1 a dozen.

[Scrivener7]

83. Some people's souls are very, very inexpensive.

[brewens]

87. There's a guy who knows his time isn't worth much. If you're gonna stick it to the man,

I think you can do better than that.

I was getting eggs at Costco and watched a guy check every one in a 24 pack to make sure he didn't have any cracked eggs. He picked each one up and inspected it. I open an egg carton up and look real quick but it's only worth so much trouble.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

91. I just drag my hand over the eggs and if any don't wobble, they are cracked enough to leak

If they wobble but are cracked, then the seal hasn't broken and they are fine.

Be sure to count them. A carton with 11 eggs is bad, but one with 13 eggs is worse!

[Raine]

89. Always surprising to me is being able to make a remark to a stranger

and not getting punched in the mouth. 🤔

[Bernardo de La Paz]

90. They rationalize all kinds of law breaking. Complain about shoplifters in California then do this.nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

93. LOL. Fucking hypocrites.

Probably considers himself a serious God-fearin' Christian, too, better than those damn libtard Chrsitians.