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09-25-2015, 09:09 AM
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Certified Pretend Chef
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 43,482
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Originally Posted by PrincessFiona60
I would offer...I do it often for tall people. 
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Thank you, PF. You're a sweetheart.
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09-25-2015, 09:14 AM
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#24212
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Ogress Supreme
Site Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 36,907
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aw gwarsh!
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09-25-2015, 07:08 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: East Boston, MA
Posts: 20,817
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Originally Posted by GotGarlic
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Thank you so much for that piece GG. My sister-in-law had lupus and one day decided to give up all her medications. She simply stopped taking them. She lived for about a year or so, and then succumbed to her illness. I have psoriasis and every so often they do a blood test for lupus. It comes back false positive. Of course the doctor wants to treat me for lupus. After watching what my SIL went through, I can very readily understand the spoon theory. No thank you. I do not want my false positive lupus treated.
Someone once told me that "getting old is very hard work!" I have to agree with that person.
Your day is coming. You will be glad for the privilege of using one of those electric carts.
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Illegitimi non carborundum!
I don't want my last words to be, "I wish I had spent more time doing housework"
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09-25-2015, 07:21 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: East Boston, MA
Posts: 20,817
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Originally Posted by Cheryl J
I've never seen that. In all the grocery stores I've been in, the motorized carts are on each end of the store, right as you walk in. Along with the shopping carts, and the childrens' car-type carts. Doesn't make much sense for them to be in the middle of the store and make the disabled walk that far in order to get one. 
Does your son go get the cart for you?
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Unfortunately, not my store. There are about 20+ carts and they are lined up right in the middle between the two entry doors. Plenty of carts, not much common sense went into the planning.
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Illegitimi non carborundum!
I don't want my last words to be, "I wish I had spent more time doing housework"
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09-25-2015, 07:24 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: East Boston, MA
Posts: 20,817
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Originally Posted by Andy M.
I find a good percentage of people who need help don't ask right away. So I offer. But no one ever offers to get down on their hands and knees to get an item at the back of the bottom shelf for me.
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I don't hesitate at all. The help at Market Basket have all be extensively trained in customer service. I will ask help or anyone within ear. At 4'7", there aren't too many shelves I can reach.
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Illegitimi non carborundum!
I don't want my last words to be, "I wish I had spent more time doing housework"
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09-25-2015, 07:47 PM
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Senior Cook
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Permian Basin
Posts: 499
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Originally Posted by Addie
I don't hesitate at all. The help at Market Basket have all be extensively trained in customer service. I will ask help or anyone within ear. At 4'7", there aren't too many shelves I can reach. 
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I offer to help if I see someone needed help.
Now my son and a cousin might need your help with the lower shelves. They are 6'4 and 6'9.
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09-25-2015, 08:03 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: East Boston, MA
Posts: 20,817
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Originally Posted by cinisajoy
I offer to help if I see someone needed help.
Now my son and a cousin might need your help with the lower shelves. They are 6'4 and 6'9.
Since I am new, I will not give Lance my opinion of his comment.
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I am short enough. Shorter than most of my grandchildren. I will volunteer anytime.
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Illegitimi non carborundum!
I don't want my last words to be, "I wish I had spent more time doing housework"
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09-25-2015, 08:35 PM
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Certified Cake Maniac
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: The Great "Wet" North
Posts: 20,091
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Originally Posted by Andy M.
I find a good percentage of people who need help don't ask right away. So I offer. But no one ever offers to get down on their hands and knees to get an item at the back of the bottom shelf for me.
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I am 5'9" and am really good with things at arms level and above. However, with my back and knees I can't get anything below that. People that know me are used to seeing things on the floor that I can't pick up or can't find my grabber. I leave a list out for TB of things I need out of the cupboards before he goes to work  .
As for stores, my main grocery store staff see me and automatically ask if I am getting any pop or sparkling water that day. They are great. In Costco I am not too proud to ask staff or customers to put a case of water or something else in my cart if I am shopping alone.
But then again I am special!
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09-25-2015, 10:50 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: near Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posts: 18,810
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Maybe we should get grabbers for the grocery store.
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09-26-2015, 03:14 AM
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#24220
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Sous Chef
Join Date: May 2014
Location: NC
Posts: 530
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Posting LOL!
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