No, it's all adults who can't see the goth wearing a top hat and petticoats.

I'm comforted that Jilli is also invisible to people with carts. I'm not really a small person and I've had to leap out of the way of people barreling down the aisle. Usually it's in grocery stores, but last week I went to our month-old Ikea, and I was run into several times by people by people staring at the brave new retail world.

I agree that the bill hammock is not about germ avoidance. I'd imagine it's a response to registers that tell you what change is due. Previously, a person would usually count out the change first to the nearest dollar, then get the bills out.

Now that the read out tells you dollar amount first, then change, I wonder if cashiers grab the bills first then change.

Also, random, in New Zealand, the grocery stores use Swedish Rounding to give change because there are no equivalent coins for pennies there. It was the first time i'd ever heard of Swedish rounding.

Hello, all. I have been such a good worker bee that I have hardly been here all day. (NOTE TO COMPANY EYEBALLS: See my virtue?)

I did break for a Hawaiian burger at 1, however.

Now going home to decide where the bookcases go. Also, to figure out how best to use furniture-coasters, about which the only shouting of Move Day was the topic. (Of course.)

Poor dumb Rafi Palmeiro. Maybe it was a drive-by blow-gun steroid injection. Maybe somebody was trying to kill him by feeding him large amounts of ephedra. Maybe he needs to invest in a Whizzinator.

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Hey, is Gud around? I'm on my way back west starting tomorrow (with a stop by the waterpark) so could be through KC Friday evening or Saturday noonish. If it's convenient, I wouldn't mind saying hello to KC-istas.

I don't know why everything about him makes me laugh so hard.

I don't know why your interest in him makes me laugh so hard.

Does anyone prefer to get their change back in a bill-hammock? You know when the person at the register piles the change onto the bills and holds the bill by the two short edges?

Drives me absolutely nuts. Drive thru people are notorious for it and I've lost count of the times I've ended up with my change scattered over my lap and the floor of the car or worse on the ground outside my car.

I also hate people who stand by the card slider/cart area and rearrange their pocketbook completely, tidying their hair and itemizing tax deductions after they are rung out, preventing me from moving my cart forward and filling it and/or sliding my card.

This drive me nuts. And I tend to get paranoid about taking too long myself so I try to get everything secure, then organize it once I'm out of the aisle.

People tend not to run into me with their carts, but I often encounter pairs of people who have their carts parked side by side, blocking the aisle while they're looking at the shelves. How hard is it to move your cart past the person already stopped, and then walk back to whatever it is you want to browse over?

This is why I was so disappointed when the local grocery store stopped being 24 hours. I loved going shopping at 2 am when the only thing I had to watch out for was stockers.

Hate the hammock. Hate doing the Bump with the shopping cart behind me. Always have ATM card at the ready, and pre-swipe and punch, when I can.

Today was so very depressing. Bah. I want my officemate back already.

Guess I'll go make dinner.

I've never encountered the hammock. It sounds dreadful.

What I despise violently is when people loiter at the subway station stairs. You're on the STAIRS. You're in NEW YORK. What is WRONG with you?