Years ago you never saw stickers on every piece of fruit, but eventually, this became the norm; every single piece of fruit at the store has a sticker on it.
One day this biddy-looking lady came near me as I was removing stickers from peaches, then placing the “de-stickered” peaches into my shopping cart.
She asked me (I’m not kidding; this is the truth) the following question: “Why are you taking the stickers off?”
I was flabbergasted; how could anyone be this DUMB?
This was many years ago, before cashiers relied upon stickers to ring up the sale.
The stickers were more like vanity stickers to remind shoppers what type of fruit they were buying. They were not bar coded.
These details are very important, because they leave no intelligent reason for the stranger’s question to me.
She could clearly see that after I removed each sticker, I’d put the fruit into my cart. I took a deep breath. I wasn’t going to let this woman get away with such a stupid question.
I calmly looked at her and replied: “My doctor said that if I eat the stickers, they won’t digest.”
She gave me an unfriendly look and turned away.
Next thing I knew, I was blurting, “Well, when you ask a stupid question, you get a smart-azz answer.”
Call me nasty, but come on, how does one respond to such stupidity? Maybe I should have told her, “I’m removing the stickers from the fruit because last time I didn’t, I got sick.”