Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Nope, that's where we keep the ice cream.

Today I was doing a routine maintenance check of the freezer section of The Store (basically, wandering about with a broom in case someone had dropped a cracker or something). It was apparently a pretty busy "restocking" day for the freezer folks; there were several of the large cargo-carts about laden with product which they had transported from the giant walk-in freezers to the cases. But at this particular moment, the two fellows working the freezer department were not present. They had probably gone off to take their recyclables out, or to the bathroom, or even outside for a cigarette -- I don't know. But even though it seemed patently obvious that there was a restocking-in-progress, some woman still stopped me to ask if we really thought that a cart in the middle of the floor was a suitable place to store ice cream.

My initial impulse -- to lean in close and whisper, "You know, that stuff about freezing ice cream is just an urban legend" -- was pushed down deep, I'm sorry to say. Oh well.

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