Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Someone Needs to Warn This Poor Man! Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 22:09:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: <9_OcnUd7NaRIG9P7nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1615956377.738133153.605799.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <965527573.738198860.182184.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 04:09:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1300770007e7cb9a50f13f3feb281160"; logging-data="2255383"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186D+1B73EkDWELyYDS9wPFPi84N5TtvZ0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:v/drLj3E4DJXrCBuUFoG513uw5s= Bytes: 4430 On Thu, 23 May 2024 16:22:07 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >shawn wrote: >> On Thu, 23 May 2024 03:06:25 -0700, anim8rfsk >> wrote: >> >>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>> >>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1792841602245005312/vid/avc1/320x568/P0aAF3xgnQth0I4F.mp4?tag=14 >>>> >>>> What are the odds that she's talking about anim8r? This is exactly the sort of >>> woman he'd end up entangled with. >>>> >>> >>> Sadly not me. I only go to one grocery store in person once a month when I >>> pick up my insulin and I never take out my credit card there, you just >>> waive your iPhone in the general area of the machine. >>> >>> When she says she peeped his credit card does she just mean, she looked at >>> it or is it something more electronic and nefarious? >> >> My assumption is that she just looked at it and saw the name on it. An >> easy way of getting some basic information. Of course my local Publix >> makes it even easier as they have a loyalty club. To get the rewards >> every time you come shopping they want you to input your phone number >> as you pay so someone could just watch you type in your phone number. >> Something that is much more revealing than just your name since there >> could be many people in the area with your name (how many John Smith's >> are there in your city?) >> >> As for the woman, I'm not sure she is capable of doing something more >> electronic and nefarious. > >There’s that. > > >> >>> Also, of course, my mom is dead >> >> Sadly that's true for me as well. :( > >:( > >I do recall my father trying to get me to ask out his favorite checkout >girl at the supermarket he went to (and I didn’t). He didn’t do anything to >expedite it except pester me though. I have no idea how I would’ve gone >about such a thing. "My dad is into you so are you interested in meeting him?" I'm sure she would be happy to have a random kid come up and tell her that. >> >>> The part that terrifies me is where she says “so naturally I followed him >>> to the checkout counter…“ >> >> It's perfectly normal behavior, right? It would be if she followed >> that sentence with "and I finally worked up the courage to ask him >> out." > >Give his zucchini a squeeze and ask him if this is any good. > > >> >>> Most of the attractive women at the grocery store don’t use their iPhones >>> to pay their bill and never have their grocery store card with them so they >>> tell the cashier their phone number. I’ve wondered how many people might be >>> memorizing the number and reverse directory them later. >> >> Yep, that's one reason I've never signed up to that loyalty club. Plus >> the rewards sort of suck as it's something like $5 off the first bill >> and then not much more. >> > >Ours is different discounts on different products every week. Many of them >are pointless like pennies off but many of them are BOGO so they’re >basically 50% off. I get to take advantage of the BOGOs without being a member so there's no real advantage to being a member other than allowing them to track your purchases.