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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: Someone Needs to Warn This Poor Man!
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 22:09:53 -0400
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On Thu, 23 May 2024 16:22:07 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 03:06:25 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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.