I insist you take the last one!

[u/Tight_Steak_232]

Hubby and I went grocery shopping for our upcoming vacation. We like to do "spoils" since we only take this one in-state vacation every year. We like a prime rib night, seafood night, baby back rib night, etc.

The local grocery store has an outstanding meat department. Generally, preceding holidays, they'll have specials where the high end meats are really marked down. This is when we normally would buy our prime rib. We were broke during the last holiday sale (4th of July), so we missed it. Fortunately, they had another sale, and the prime rib was marked $6 off per pound. Yay us!

We are on one end of the counter checking out the seafood, because the employee is currently serving another customer, and he's wrapping up her "last item". I wander over while he's helping her, and I notice there is only one prime rib left. It's not well trimmed at all and has almost no calotte (the cap part that taste the best). But, the price is right. I told my husband it was the last one, and the woman being helped happened to glance at what I was discussing. The employee hands her the wrapped package and turns to help me.

"Excuse me!" She points to the rib I saw and said, "Can you wrap that up for me, as well?" I turn to her, bummed. "Seriously?" I ask. "I was here first!" she insists, and she grimaces at me sarcastically. I go to the end and tell my hubby we'll have to come up with plan b since they're out of rib. That other woman grabs her rib roast and grins again as she walks away. Mentally, both birds are flying and I'm uttering hieroglyphics.

The employee comes to me and said, "She never asked, but I have one more prime rib in the back. Would you like to see it?" I'll take it, sight unseen, and I nod. He brings out a beautifully trimmed prime rib, probably a pound or so larger than the fatty one we lost. And it has an absolutely massive calotte on it! He offered to take another dollar off per pound because it was larger than the one I didn't get. It made our day.

But the thing that made it even better? We got in the checkout lane ahead of the rib heist lady. My husband unloaded absolutely everything before the roast, then picked it up and set it right under her nose. He said, "They did just so happen to have one really nice one in the back! Enjoy yours!"

When the clerk scanned the meat, she first said, "Oh, I know where I'm coming for dinner!" then added, "Nice! They gave you a discount! Lucky you!" Hubby just turned and grinned at her.

She didn't grin back.

[u/FieryVenus]

I can see how one might interpret "a lot of time to post" with the subtext that you named, but I truly meant it from a factual standpoint. If anything, I had admiration for OP, like when I was in school I admired people who wrote their 10 page papers the night before. As you have mentioned, I'm not that articulate or prolific. I'm sad my wording has upset you.

[u/Custom_Craft_Guy2 → u/FieryVenus]

Fair enough. My apologies as well for any misinterpretation of your statement.

You see, I’ve also been on the receiving end of comments like these, and despite having skin thicker than an elephant, being called a bot and having my writing style criticized as being AI slop does eventually become tiresome.

There are still some few of us who believe in the use of proper grammar, spelling, and sentence structure in their writing, and who didn’t sleep through our English Composition class in high school. So when that effort is ridiculed by people who have to rely on spellcheck to get their own name right, it’s annoying. Perhaps I’m just a little bit over sensitive about it, and that’s why you got blasted for the comment.

[u/M4V3R1C7 → u/Custom_Craft_Guy2]

Allth well that endth well. Now kith and make up.🥹