"If you have to do something, you might as well get good at it" department:
Michiana has something to brag about, it's home to the best grocery bagger in the country.
Martin's employee and 19-year old Kyle Perry of Osceola beat out thousands of competitors to be named the best.
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"At first I couldn't really believe it and then I looked down in the crowd and saw my parents and everyone cheering for me. I didn't even know what to do," Kyle said.
[. . .]
Kyle won $10,000 and planned to use some of that money to buy new tires.
If only I'd applied myself in some of my earlier jobs -- become the best burger flipper at McDonald's, the best lumber stacker at Wickes, the best poop scooper at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo -- and then gone on to national competition, who knows where I might be today? My parents would have been proud of me, and I could have had new tires, too.
Wish we had an award winner at some of the gorcery stores I visit, where the baggers seem to be space-and-volume challenged. They're forever stuffing most of my groceries into a couple of bags, filling them so full they can barely be lifted, and putting one or two things each in 10 other bags.
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Leo:
That's why I get a bit flustered when someone "tries" take away MY job of bagging my OWN groceries.
I have my OWN system...and it's worked for DECADES.
And I never worked AT a grocery store...go figure.
Even get the cashiers (at Scotts) ask me if I want to work there...LOL.
(yeah, that's worth a grin)
My gig goes like this:
Heavy stuff at the bottom, light stuff at the top (like EGGS and bread), and never more than TWO 2 ltr bottles to any PAPER bag...EVER!
(and double bag ONLY when it's raining outside, or you have a LOT of canned goods.
The frozen foods and meats alone get the plastic bags, and are placed wherever there is space to spare.
By the time the cashier has finished ringing us up, I'm all done with bagging...timing IS everything.
And please don't try to put TEN pounds of MY stuff in ANY bag that will hold ONLY FIVE, kapeesh?
You really don't wanna cheese off those physicists.
I saw that young man, and thought "hmm, didn't know anyone was taking notes when *I* was bagging"...LMAO!
He's faster than I was...even in my "prime".
If you're ever at the Waynedale store early on the weekend, I'll be glad to bag YOUR groceries, Leo...no charge.
;)
Let's face it, whatever one does for a living, we're all just scooping poop.