Subj : Shopping And Time
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Thu Jul 09 2020 08:41:00


Hi Daryl!

 BM> Generally the stores move stuff around to make the shopper have to look
 BM> around and hopefully entice with buying other stuff while there.  They
 BM> don't care about exercising and their customers' health (exception of
 BM> COVID-19 safety), though years ago the main chiller (for air
 BM> conditioning) at the store where I worked failed and it was rather warm
 BM> -- I made the joke it was an added benefit to our health plan: a free
 BM> sauna!
 DS>   You're right about all of that. But, usually, I have a list of
 DS> what I'm going to get, and shop where I know where everything
 DS> is...so like prepping for a colonoscopy (a lousy anal-ogy <G>), I
 DS> want to get it over with.

I generally have a list also, mainly because I don't want to forgot 
something I specificallty went to the store to buy and got side-tracked!
IMO nothing wrong with browsing -- may find a bargin!  I've picked up 
some rather inexpensive food that way: $2 pizzas normally closer to $10 
just because the line is being discontinued, etc.



 BM> About right.  Do something, do nothing - no matter what could be
 BM> photographed with a cell phone or security camera, purposely or not.
 DS>   Sometimes, I think those things are "setups".

I'l agree some seem to be: why is the person taking a picture of someone
sitting in a chair when the chair suddenly collapses when the cat jumps 
into the person's lap?  Not that things don't randomly occur and people 
don't randomly film.



 DS> ... Why's the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
 BM> One is for hours, one is for minutes, one is for seconds.
 BM> Or the first two were together and then the second one was added.
 BM> Or just to mess with people!
 DS>   Then with the stopwatch, you have hundredths of seconds. I
 DS> guess that applies to when you try to be the hot dog eating
 DS> champion. :P

For a hand-held stopwatch I could understand tenths of a second;
hundreths no: raction time of the person pushign the button, slight
delay due to the fleshyness of the thumb (push, squish of the flesh, 
then the triggering of the stopwatch mechanism).  Stopwatch being 
triggered electronically is different.


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