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Psst go to UberEats.com, every nice restaurant near you will uber you some food in a timely manner and it stays hot.

I've seen the people filling those orders at Kroger. I guess if you don't want to pick your own fruits and vegetables you can go that route. But from my observations, they don't even look at the produce as they fill your order.

That’d get expensive if done every night. Or even multiple nights a week. The cheaper option would be to see if there’s a grocery delivery service in your area. Many of my co workers order their groceries online and have them delivered. They seem to feel it’s worth it.

This thread should be titled "The Frank Costanza Airing Of The Grievances". I share your annoyance with the lead car in the left turn lane who apparently forgot why he was sitting there. If you ever find yourself in such a left-turn lane situation like that again and you hear someone yelling "IT'S GREEN! DRIVE!" ... that's probably me.

Rather than going all scattershot with my grievances, I'm going to concentrate on one venue - the grocery. I hate grocery shopping, so I only go every 3 weeks and do "big shopping", filling my cart and spending a lot of money. I usually end up in a foul mood afterwards.

A little later in the summer, corn on the cob will be cheap, like 12 ears for $1.99 cheap, but I guarantee you that you will stand there waiting to grab some corn while someone rips open one ear after the other to make sure its "good". Often, after opening/handling the corn, they will throw it back in the bin because apparently its not quite yellow enough or big enough or something. Folks, its like 15 cents an ear, buy one or two extra in case you got a bad one because nobody wants the ones you threw back.

In the meat aisle, there's always the "beef-starer", who stands in front of the steak selection staring at it in some kind of catatonic trance, as if by looking long enough they will find that elusive $1.99 per pound Porterhouse. Not gonna happen folks - beef's expensive. Maybe you should move along to the Ground Chuck, because I can tell you from experience that "fake steak" (ground chuck formed into T-bone shape) is perfectly good along with a baked po and some (picked-over) corn on the cob.

Moving along now to the frozen foods. This aisle has glass doors designed to let you see what's inside the freezer, so you can open the door, grab what you want, and close the door. But that doesn't stop today's active shopper from opening the door to stare at what's clearly visible with the door closed. As a result, the doors all along the freezer case become fogged with condensation from the warm air you let in by standing there with the door open. Thanks a pantload, now no one can see what the hell is in the freezer case. GAH!

Last, the most delightful part of the grocery experience - the check out line. So I'm there with about $200 worth of groceries, and without fail, the bagger will walk away to another checkout line when my rather large order starts down the chute towards the bagger station, leaving it up to me to bag the groceries and hoist the bags into my cart, trying to keep up with the checkout clerk who is apparently unaware that my groceries are being crushed together at the bottom of the chute. I ask her to hold up and its like I asked for her firstborn son. Finally, they are bagged and put in my cart, and I start back up the checkout aisle to run my credit card, only I can't because the customer behind me in line has moved their cart into the gap I left, and is standing at the credit card machine where I need to be. I say "excuse me, I haven't paid yet" and once again I get the eye-roll, like I'm being unreasonable.

Driving home, I decide to call for pizza tonight because I'm too annoyed to feel like cooking anything. Thank you very little, Giant Eagle and Giant Eagle customers.

Don't you need a smart phone for Uber Eats? Because the only app on my flip phone is Tetris ...

Just go on the internet. On your pc/tablet/whatever device. You dont need an app for that. Same as ordering a pizza online.

The thing I hate about the food delivery services is this:

"No delivery fee is you order over $X".

I look at the bill.

$0 delivery fee but $3.25 service fee. :irate: Whet is the difference between the service fee and delivery fee? Their entire business is delivery.

To get your $10 order delivered under normal circumstances, you pay $10 + $3 deliver fee + $3.25 service fee + tip. Their service isn't worth me paying $10 more than the food costs. (and you don't get the specials at most restaurants, either)

That’d get expensive if done every night. Or even multiple nights a week. The cheaper option would be to see if there’s a grocery delivery service in your area. Many of my co workers order their groceries online and have them delivered. They seem to feel it’s worth it.

Blocking the fast lane (left lane) on the interstate. It's for passing! If you're not passing, get the hell out of my damned way!

People in a public context with bad breath at the start of a day.


I could almost understand at the end of a day.