Friday vignettes

Two random things from my Friday that I felt the urge to write about ...

They're making vending machines these days with fancy technology that senses when the machine hasn't properly dispensed your order. We have them at work. They have a little laser-beam like sensor at the bottom, and if your selection hasn't dropped after the first try, the machine tries to dispense it again.

Today when I was hankering for a munchie, the machine seemed to have a problem. First try yielded nothing. Nor did the second. The bags of Fritos were getting caught at their corners.

The third try? Three bags of Fritos came dropping to the bottom. For only 75 cents. (And no, Fritos aren't exactly Weight Watchers friendly. More on my current WW state of mind in a day or two).

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After work I decided to take myself on a date to The Gap. I received a coupon in the mail the other day for a free canvas shopping bag from The Gap, so I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to get mine. While I was there, I decided to buy another thermal T-shirt because I pretty much live in them all winter.

As the clerk was ringing me up, I watched her as she folded both the shirt and the canvas bag as if she was going to put them both in a plastic shopping bag. "Um, you can just put the shirt in the canvas bag," I told her. She looked at me like I was speaking another language. Like she couldn't comprehend not putting a purchase from the store in a plastic bag.

The clerk standing next to her said: "You know, you're the first customer today to request that."