As the $15-an-hour staffer “monitors” me while I scan and bag my over $300 worth of items at Walmart, this incident occurred.
Why are you bagging all of your goods twice, Her?
Me—pardon me?
You’re wasting our bags, Her!
Me: Feel free to come over here and bag the goods yourself if you don’t like the way I’m doing it.
That’s not my job, her!
Me: All right, if you don’t mind, I’ll wrap my groceries however I like.
Why are you carrying two bags, Her?
Me, as I don’t want the bottoms to tear out or the handles to break and the bags are weak.
That’s because you’re packing too much stuff in the backpack, she said. You wouldn’t need to double-bag if you removed half of that material and placed it in a new bag.
*I stared at her for ten seconds.
To avoid having to double bag, do you want me to divide these things in half and place half of them in a separate bag?
Exactly her.
Me, so I would continue to carry the same quantity of goods in two bags.
No, since you wouldn’t be double-bagging, she said.
Me—okay, so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double-bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag, I’m still using two bags for these two items.
No, because you are not double-bagging them, so it’s not the same number of bags.
*I’m looking around at about 10 other customers who, at this point, are enjoying the show.
Me—is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her, never mind; you just don’t get it.
And with that, she went back to her little podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.