Comments on: Oh me nerves: Supermarket Edition http://www.lorihogan.com/2008/11/20/oh-me-nerves-supermarket-edition/ Mom, Wife, Engineer, Student, Volunteer, Techy, Grammar Nazi, Lazy Runner, Mild Neurotic Thu, 19 May 2011 16:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: House http://www.lorihogan.com/2008/11/20/oh-me-nerves-supermarket-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-11230 House Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:32:21 +0000 http://www.lorihogan.com/?p=243#comment-11230 I do, actually, but I have to stop that line of thinking. If I go too far down that road, my OCD would become paralyzing. So I kind of function on the ignorance is bliss principle. I do, actually, but I have to stop that line of thinking. If I go too far down that road, my OCD would become paralyzing. So I kind of function on the ignorance is bliss principle.

]]> By: lori.hogan http://www.lorihogan.com/2008/11/20/oh-me-nerves-supermarket-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-11189 lori.hogan Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:40:50 +0000 http://www.lorihogan.com/?p=243#comment-11189 But why do you assume that the green pepper has not already been in contact with something worse than the bottom of the basket before you picked it up, Mr. House? But why do you assume that the green pepper has not already been in contact with something worse than the bottom of the basket before you picked it up, Mr. House?

]]> By: House http://www.lorihogan.com/2008/11/20/oh-me-nerves-supermarket-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-10450 House Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:51:09 +0000 http://www.lorihogan.com/?p=243#comment-10450 I do bag solitary peppers or apples (although I usually buy apples in threes), but primarily for cleanliness purposes -- the baskets in the grocery stores I go to here in Toronto are... not the cleanest, shall we say. And while I do wash them before eating, it's not like I use soap or anything, so the less filth they come in contact with, the better. But, for bananas, it's stupid, because you don't eat the peel. (At least, I hope not....) I do bag solitary peppers or apples (although I usually buy apples in threes), but primarily for cleanliness purposes — the baskets in the grocery stores I go to here in Toronto are… not the cleanest, shall we say. And while I do wash them before eating, it’s not like I use soap or anything, so the less filth they come in contact with, the better.

But, for bananas, it’s stupid, because you don’t eat the peel.

(At least, I hope not….)

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