Oh Brave Leader. Of course the spacial relationship thing needs some work.

Not to mention the holding the camera steady thing. EL

Not that interesting a post until I realized that IT IS FROM THE FUTURE. My reader has it being posted at 11:24:09 PM TODAY and it is only 10:46 PM.

"Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:24:09 PM"

Weird. Maybe you're one of the Oceanic Six.

What? Not interested in my trip to the SuperFresh to buy butter?

I'm not good with the 24 clock, which I have to write the post times in, but even I can do 22 when it's 10. Your reader is clearly on last year's Daylight Savings Time schedule.

No, wait. Then it would have said 9. Maybe I am lost. EL

So you're not Aubrey Bodine.

Explain please Single One.

For voodoopork -- see here.

Thanks HeMPStokeD. It still doesn't make any sense.

A. Aubrey Bodine's camera wouldn't be terribly discreet at the supermarket checkout.

Thanks sooo much hmptsd..one forgets how great Mr. Bodine was, esp in the old sepia toned mag.
I RESENT THOSE SELF CHECK OUTS..RESENT THEM ..till they give me some type of discount..I refuse
to utilize them(myself and other Luddites I suppose)

Self checkout is awesome. It's just begging you to steal, which I don't do, but still they are like Hey just take stuff, it's cheaper than employing a person. I like to do really stoopid things at the self-check, like try to scan my boobs or my hand or accidentally scan the same thing twelve times, so that it takes huge amounts of mgmt labor to get rid of me. Anarchy!

HATE the self-check outs. Ended up using one at the Giant on the city-county line the other week and ended up getting so frustrated by the long lines, the self-check-out, the fact that it wouldn't ring half of my stuff AND THE MOUSE THAT RAN ACROSS THE AISLE that I just left.

And now the bloody Ikea has them too, without the option of a live person checking you out.

AND THE MOUSE THAT RAN ACROSS THE AISLE ... Where is Owl when you really need him?

Sorry to be obscure. OMG's post was not there when I responded to EL's non-steady camera remark. I was writing as if it were an ongoing conversation. (That's how badly I've been sucked into this blog world.) Thus my commiseration that its okay for her not to be a world class photographer. Especially with a camera phone.

I'm embarrassed to admit that although that photo looks like it was taken with a camera phone, it was actually taken with my Digital Elph. EL

I was busy last night. Seriously, why would you click on that. You know what it's going to be. Yet you had to do it. BTW I like blue food too -- Cub Scouts.

People are really overrated. You should get over yourselves. I hope to die and come back as a dolphin. And not the stupid kind that gets stuck in tuna nets. The totally whorey kind that lives at Sea World.

Re Bodine:Actually it would be impossible to get a photo inside a market with a beautiful cloud background. (Inside joke to those of a certain age,)

FHJ: Bodine would have made it work and the viewer would have believed it, too.

The bloody Ikea has what? Mice running across their aisles?

And what's a Digital Elph? Never mind - I'll look it up.

I'm thinking the food stores should give you the bags; after all you're essentially advertising their name. I'm hoping that Eddies never goes self-check-out.

At 99 cents apiece, I thought Whole Foods was. EL

Personally speaking, I wouldn't mind using the self-checkout terminals - if they gave me six percent off my total.

As it stands, they're a pain in the butt and those stupid weigh counters that refuse to let you continue until you do what it wants you to do really infuriates me.

But what I typically do is go there, stand in front of the machine and act stupid. I have no idea how to use the thing and I'll have the attendant come over and ring my purchases for me - if they won't give me a discount, I still expect the labor.

A few years ago, when the Timonium SuperFresh first installed their self-checkout terminals, a ballsy college-aged couple pushed their cart casually through the stall and out the door - without paying. No attendant and I guess that was their "Boston Tea Party" against Self-Checkout.

I laud that couple today.

This week's Time magazine has an article about a guy named Bill Nuti, name is appropriate, who is Mr. Do-it-yourself checkout technology. The idea is to shift the work to the consumer. WalMart doesn't make enough profit? No more customer service people needed. That's brilliant! So the next time you can't figure out what the code is for arugula, or your visa doesn't scan, assume that the produce is free. Remember, you're customer service and we like to keep ourselves happy.

I-bloody-kea now has self-check outs and on days when they're not crowded, you have no option of using a person to check you out. And it's not entirely clear that they no longer have bags until you've checked out and then you have to buy one of their bloody huge blue sacks.

I adore self checkouts. 99% of the time I am in a huge rush and can do it alot faster myself. I get so impatient waiting for slow cashiers. I can't wait til they are everywhere!

And I've been using my reusable ikea bag for years in grocery stores. No one ever seems to notice.

I like the self checkouts.