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I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« on: January 20, 2012, 08:33:12 PM »
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As many of you know Seattle has had a weather disaster with snow and ice for the past week. Well my power went out along with the Safeway store both mine and SW got our power back at 3:45am this morning. After digging my car out this morning I went to SW for a few things and gas for the car.

The difference between those who lost power and those who didn't in my town was whether your power line were underground or overhead. So I was going through the checkout and was talking weather with another customer who didnt lose power and he said he was glad that I got my power back on after 17 hours. I then mentioned that a great jobs bill would be to employ people burying our power lines thus ending for the most part the $$$$$$$ losses that happens when the power goes out.Plus the other related jobs it would create.

Well the cashier who's conservative husband just won a seat to the city council heard the conversation and looked over toward me and said how would that help the economy and just had that .... "JEEZ I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY LOOK" on her face. it was like she was saying with her face how come liberal/progressives always have the good ideas??

It was priceless.

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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 08:36:21 PM »
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 08:52:24 PM »
Rsmith needs to change the venue of his bouncies. Isn't this like the third or fourth one in a grocery store?
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 08:53:42 PM »
BS, you liar.
Never happened.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 08:54:57 PM »
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The difference between those who lost power and those who didn't in my town was whether your power line were underground or overhead. So I was going through the checkout and was talking weather with another customer who didnt lose power and he said he was glad that I got my power back on after 17 hours. I then mentioned that a great jobs bill would be to employ people burying our power lines thus ending for the most part the $$$$$$$ losses that happens when the power goes out.Plus the other related jobs it would create.

My Husbands Aunt has underground power lines and we have over-head power lines, she lost power for 3 days during the Halloween Storm and she had to stay with us since we only lost power briefly.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 09:01:27 PM »
I don't think that the underground service gets power from the power station underground.  I have burried service, and it goes out all the time.  Seems those nasty trees, winds and ice storms knock down the overhead lines servicing the neighborhood, poof, no power.  Crap load easier to fix overhead lines than burried lines
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 09:04:04 PM »
It's a bouncy, but it shows what the DUmmie really thinks.  

Buried power lines still are more expensive to emplace, maintain, and replace than overhead power lines.  Not to mention the difficulty in burying power line in an established area, where property rights would increase costs(off to court we go) and roads (which will have to be dug up and taken out of service while the lines are placed) get in the routes that would be the most economically feasible then all of the power hookups to the houses would have to be alterred for the underground delivery.  The DUmmie would expect to see a hike in his electricity rates and a millage adjustment on his property tax to pay for all of this, right?

How much is the DUmmie willing to pay for this little economic stimulus?
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2012, 09:04:36 PM »
Are they lapping it up over there?
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2012, 09:12:54 PM »
Moron.

Underground wires would still cause the electricity to go out.  What happens with earthquakes?  Does the earthquake say, "Oh no, we better look out for those power lines.  Don't want to leave them DUmmies without power for a day or longer."
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2012, 09:16:42 PM »
I had underground utilities for seventeen years while living in the north with heavy snows, freezing rain, and severe pre-global warming winters.
As far as I know, we did not have even one minute of electricity outage during that entire time.

On the other hand, this is rsmithnumbers, one of the absolute DUmbest of all the DUmbasses, and the author of the lamest bouncies in town.

The hilarious cover letter he suggested for his wife's resume remains a DUmp classic.

Not one word of his story actually happened.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2012, 09:21:07 PM »
Gee I guess that nicked cable cattywhompas across the street from me that caused my power to brown-out and pop on and off several times a day wouldn't have happened if it was buried deeper than the 5 feet it was huh dummies? It took 4 crews 2 weeks to fix it due to it being buried. All of which would have been avoided if it was on a pole.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2012, 10:34:02 PM »
All I can say to this, is  :whatever:
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2012, 10:51:36 PM »
When building a new neighborhood not only is it aesthetically pleasing to the eye but also cheaper upfront to use buried lines.

When poles already exist, passing a jobs bill that would would pay workers $45,000 for every $200,000 that the taxpayers pay would not be good for the economy DUmmie.  Not to mention the 300% over budget the project would run, causing taxes to go up even more.

DUmmies are so freaking short sighted it almost pisses me off.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2012, 10:52:40 PM »
Nobody was paying attention to me, so I ripped off my shirt and ran into a Safeway and blurted out "Underground Power Lines" and everybody looked at me and were like, "Wow, how come liberals always have such great ideas!" And everyone was happy with me so I ran out into the street and was hit by a bus. The end.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2012, 10:55:09 PM »
Boobiez?
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2012, 11:00:31 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on January 20, 2012, 10:52:40 PM
Nobody was paying attention to me, so I ripped off my shirt and ran into a Safeway and blurted out "Underground Power Lines" and everybody looked at me and were like, "Wow, how come liberals always have such great ideas!" And everyone was happy with me so I ran out into the street and was hit by a bus. The end.

I would have actually been more inclined to believe your version.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2012, 11:01:18 PM »
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We have underground lines.  If a transformer blows, we lose power for hours.  No wind, no rain, no snow, no ice.  It just blows out.

Imagine that.   :whatever:
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2012, 11:18:56 PM »
OH OH, I got an idea. We could pay 6 million people to break windows and then pay 12 million people to replace them all. I'm thinking something along the lines of the Golden Gate Bridge painting. The first groups heads east and then comes back west, rinse and repeat until everyone has a job.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2012, 11:34:06 PM »
Hahaha, I love how he made the cashier's DH a city councilman, to "show" how he knew she was conservative. Since he just won the seat, I wonder if she can stop working at the Safeway now and become one of the 1%? :lmao:

Here is a grocery store tale:

Today was my kid's b'day and I needed to bring the obligatory cupcakes in to his class this afternoon. I went to the Super Walmart, because I wanted to. I walked to the bakery and looked at the cupcakes. There was one pack of 12 Angry Bird cupcakes, so I asked the baker lady if there was anymore at another place in the store (they sometimes have displays in assorted places). She told me there wasn't, but she would be happy to take some of the plain packs of cupcakes ( I needed 30 total)and deck them out with sprinkles and Angry Bird rings. And so she did. I thought it was a very sweet thing to offer and thanked her. And then I paid for my cupcakes and left. There were no political discussions, no applause, and no cops in bushes. Silly me, I thought that was how most folks grocery store experiences went.

They don't even try to be believable. In all my years of grocery shopping, I have never, not once, discussed politics with the cashiers, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, and not with the other customers either.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2012, 11:54:42 PM »
Quote from: kraven on January 20, 2012, 11:34:06 PM
Hahaha, I love how he made the cashier's DH a city councilman, to "show" how he knew she was conservative. Since he just won the seat, I wonder if she can stop working at the Safeway now and become one of the 1%? :lmao:

Here is a grocery store tale:

Today was my kid's b'day and I needed to bring the obligatory cupcakes in to his class this afternoon. I went to the Super Walmart, because I wanted to. I walked to the bakery and looked at the cupcakes. There was one pack of 12 Angry Bird cupcakes, so I asked the baker lady if there was anymore at another place in the store (they sometimes have displays in assorted places). She told me there wasn't, but she would be happy to take some of the plain packs of cupcakes ( I needed 30 total)and deck them out with sprinkles and Angry Bird rings. And so she did. I thought it was a very sweet thing to offer and thanked her. And then I paid for my cupcakes and left. There were no political discussions, no applause, and no cops in bushes. Silly me, I thought that was how most folks grocery store experiences went.

They don't even try to be believable. In all my years of grocery shopping, I have never, not once, discussed politics with the cashiers, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, and not with the other customers either.



Well, that's just a boring story.  Because that's what happens to most people when they go shopping.  When I'm shopping, I don't try to convert people to my way of thinking, I don't engage in political conversations with strangers or cashiers, and when I'm out shopping, the only thing I'm thinking about is how f****** our country is because of liberal policies and how much more shit is costing me for some utopian wet dream. 

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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2012, 12:17:46 AM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on January 20, 2012, 10:52:40 PM
Nobody was paying attention to me, so I ripped off my shirt and ran into a Safeway and blurted out "Underground Power Lines" and everybody looked at me and were like, "Wow, how come liberals always have such great ideas!" And everyone was happy with me so I ran out into the street and was hit by a bus. The end.

The other day at the grocery store I was waiting in line and felt this overwhelming urge to blurt out "paper ballots now, we must destroy Diebold!!!" so I did. Everyone cheered and said in unison "right on right on right on" just like Rush says, which pissed me off because Rush is a fat racist homophobe 1%er.  :mad:
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2012, 04:24:14 AM »
Quote from: dutch508 on January 20, 2012, 10:55:09 PM
Boobiez?

If you like them in a 38 Long.   :lmao:

He probably confused the cashier because he used actual cash instead of his EBT card.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2012, 05:20:32 AM »
The one thing I bet was true is that she had to run out for gas and food AFTER the storm! :loser:
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2012, 05:54:42 AM »
Quote from: jukin on January 20, 2012, 11:18:56 PM
OH OH, I got an idea. We could pay 6 million people to break windows and then pay 12 million people to replace them all. I'm thinking something along the lines of the Golden Gate Bridge painting. The first groups heads east and then comes back west, rinse and repeat until everyone has a job.

That was exactly my thought too,a project such as proposed serves no purpose to advance anything and bring self sustaining growth.
It simply spends money to change something and once the change is made it is dead.
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Re: I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2012, 07:00:45 AM »
Okay, boys and girls--time for the utility worker to chime in.

PSNH is the largest, but by no means only, power provider in New Hampshire.  They cover about 500K customers, with National Grid and Unitil picking up most of the rest.

To bury JUST PSNH's lines (existing and proposed) would take on the order of 40 YEARS, and cost (at current dollars) around $40-50 BILLION.  Guess who those costs are going to get passed on to?  It was estimated that the average customer's bill would be several hundred a month higher than they are now.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111106/NEWS02/711069975

Just ONE utility, just ONE state.
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