would you do this?

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

DH & I were at Trader Joe's yesterday. I look down & some pears are rolling one the floor. We turn the corner & a gal starts picking them up. She puts all four back in the plastic box (BTW I hate those plastic boxes some fruits come in-what an environmental disaster) & then she puts the box back on the shelf. She picks out another box & walks off with it. So, I guess some poor schlep can buy dropped fruit that will go bad within a day.

Sheesh. Some people.

Have you ever dropped fruit accidently? What did you do? I've always felt obligated to buy it.

[eyesroll]

1. Sometimes, the produce is stacked so poorly that it falls when you breathe

on it...in which case I usually find an employee.

If I'm looking at, say, pears to buy and drop a couple, I'll usually buy them, unless they're atrocious to begin with (in which case my dropping them probably won't hurt much).

If the woman who picked up the pears didn't drop them herself, I don't think she was under any moral obligation to buy them -- she probably picked them up thinking she was doing a good deed.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

2. I should have said that she dropped them.

It was obvious when we turned the corner that she had opened the box to check them & it slipped from her hand.

I agree that sometimes the produce is piled high. It's hard to pick the one you want without rearranging the entire pile.

[Warpy]

3. I'm depressingly honest, too

because I've gotten stuck with other people's "drops" all too often. Since I live alone, those 4 boxed pears would probably have been poached in white wine as soon as I got in the door, but I would have felt obligated to take them.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. Me, too

I'd have washed them carefully, and enjoyed them, but I buy dented cans, too, because they seem so lonely. If there's one thing left on a shelf, I buy it.

I buy all the single bananas that no one wanted.

OK, so we anthropomorphize inanimate objects.

So we might be Druids.

So what?

;)

[politicat]

5. What I drop, I buy.

Which has meant some odd purchases occasionally - I now know that I do not like Cherimoya or starfruit - and has made me very careful about carts and the produce section.

I've got a bad case of Pottery Barn-ism.