Oh wait, there's even more... (Incel Alert)

(Don't get excited, it's very, very minor. but it just bugged me.)

One other thing that mildly bothered me over the past week: Usually, I order cheap cat stuff from Walmart: Both jugs of litter and 16-oz containers of Temptations cat treats. The price for both is usually a lot lower at Walmart than elsewhere. Or else I get the Temptations from my local grocery store, where it's only slightly more.

This week, though, I ran out of Temptations early, before my upcoming weekend shopping. So before my cats freaked out at not having their 9pm treat, I went to the local CVS pharmacy (which I hardly ever go to) to get some Temptations. When I entered, I couldn't find the pet-food section, so I found one guy working there and asked him: He could barely speak, just grunted to go one aisle over. OK. When it came time to check out, there was no person at any register, just self-checkouts. Fine. But the machine read my first Temptations but then refused to read the second cannister. So I had to go find the non-speaking store clerk and ask him to come up to the checkout. His response to me: "So, are you scared of robots?" Insinuating that I didn't understand how "self check-out" worked... Grrr.

My ideal response, which I didn't think of at the time, was: "So, are you scared of human interaction, you creepy incel?" Didn't even get a bag when he reluctantly checked me out. To make matters worse to my thrifty German soul: 16 oz of Tempations cost $10.99 at this CVS. Whereas online at Walmart or at my grocery store, they're about $8.48. CVS has a HUGE markup! Kicking myself for not ordering ahead and avoiding the extra cost and the idiotic store clerk---who wasn't even in his 20s! This snarky guy was 30-something!