Today I started my annual tradition of making lots of candy to give as Christmas gifts and to share with people. The first step (after cleaning my kitchen that is) is buying all the ingrediants. So I go to the store today to buy everything and I of course get comments from the clerk about how she’d love to be at my party, etc. Then of course she asked – so are you making this or your wife. I politely answered her and said I was and she said something about how that is good. Which made me wonder, if a woman had been checking out would the clerk ask if it was her or her husband who was making the candy. I’m sure it wouldn’t have happened. Oh well – keeps my life interesting!
Also, grocery store baggers sure could use some training. The one working at the checkout I used today sure was slow and didn’t pack things good at all. Most of the bags could have had more put in them and wasn’t put in good at all – most bags were tippsy. The clerk also helped bag at the end and she asked me if she could put a lot in a bag or would it be too heavy. I said put a lot. She did a bit better than the bagger but still could have had more without causing any problems for me.
I would imagine you get the same (or similar) comments when you’re buying yarn at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby for your beautiful afghans!!
Yup – I get that occasionally as well. The time that topped it all was when I was crocheting at lunch at work one day and someone from across the cafeteria asked what I was doing and then after I told her, she proceeded to question “Isn’t that woman’s work?”
I was wondering if you told the clerk that you didn’t have a wife. You’d think that in this day and age people would be used to things not being so stereotypical.
Nope – didn’t think to mention I didn’t have a wife – sort of caught me off guard. She was an older woman, so maybe she just hasn’t kept up with the times 🙂