Random Thoughts by Jill

So - have any of you been to the new drive-thru lanes that McDonald's has - with the two ordering lanes?!?!

It's like McDonald's took the one place where you don't have to worry about not getting in the "wrong" line, and stolen that beautiful gift away. It is now possible to get into the wrong line at the McDonald's drive-thru. I will agree that for the most part, it's a great new system. AND - if you do choose the wrong line you'll only be one car further back than you should have been after the merge. (Unlike at the toll booth lane when you pick the shorter line that ends up taking much longer because three drivers up - they don't have any change!) So, the merge - another interesting mystery - how do they know who merged first? Which order belongs to which car? They ARE tricky.

Also - I was at Meijer today - contemplating the self-check-out lane, or the regular lane. I chose the regular lane since I had some produce, and didn't want to spend the extra time looking t up myself. Plus, sometimes... don't you just want to be served? Why is everything going to self-service?? So, anyway - I chose the regular lane, and I completely regretted it by the time I was walking out. I don't know about you, but when I unpack my grocery cart onto the conveyor I put my items in the order that I would like them packed into bags. All of the boxed items together, the canned foods together, the toiletries together, etc.... Tonight as the cashier put my items into the bags she turned her turnstile after each scan and mix-matched all of my groceries into random sacks - and gave me a ton of extra plastic sacks that I truly didn't need.

Is correctly packing a grocery sack just a lost art form? Guess I'll be visiting the self-check out more often.... I can get through just as fast as the cashier ----------- unless I pick the wrong self-check out machine to wait in line for.

~~This has been Random Thoughts by Jill :)