Thankful November: Day 13

Today I am thankful for the self-checkout line at the grocery store. I'm faster if I can scan everything through myself, plus I like to keep all the produce together, all the dairy/frozen stuff together, all the canned goods together, boxed items together, non-food items together, etc. For some reason, grocery store employees in Ohio won't leave stuff grouped in the order I put it in. And they're terrible baggers here. I went to Target here once, just before New Year's last year, and purchased the following items:

• 1 bottle of sparkling peach flavored soda
• 1 bottle of sparkling pear flavored soda
• a purse
• one other item (I don't remember what it was)

For these four items, I was given five bags. Yes, five. Each bottle was wrapped in a bag and then placed in its own bag. The other two items were bagged together. Before leaving the register, I took the wrapped bottles out of their outside bags and placed them in the other bag, so that I only had one thing to carry.

Yes, I am thankful for the self-checkout lane.