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Listen. I know capitalism has us all by the balls, but there has to be some room for common sense.

I went to Aldi today for pot roast ingredients. It's a Sunday evening, so the store is, more or less, picked clean. They sell onions in 3lb bags but the bins were empty, save for a few lonely, unbagged onions. I grabbed two beautiful bulbs, the rest of my ingredients, and went to check out.

Cashier says "We dont sell them individually, sorry."

I offered to scan another $3 item again. He said no. I offered straight cash. He said no. I offered to pay for a whole bag just to get the 2, he said no.

I asked, "So, what, are you just going to throw them away??"

"Yes." He said, "Its policy. For your safety."

I said, "My safety?? They literally grow IN the dirt."

He threw them away.

I'm now parked in my car at a second grocery store, typing this tale.*

Instead of coming home with me, the onions are going to sit alone in a plastic trash bag for the rest of time. Instead of going straight home, I'm using more gas and resources to make an extra stop just for two onions that I already held in my hands.

This world doesnt make sense anymore. Im already PMSing, and this interaction has sent me into an existential spiral.

I miss my onions.

I should have just stolen them.

*Edited for clarity, pls don't text and drive <3

French tourist leaves 100,000 baht in Phuket hotel, gives staff 100 baht tip after cash returned.

The lack of civic sense is so annoying.

The color of my toothpaste is purple and apparently he had his old toothpaste on his brush before he used mine.

EDIT: It's not shit. His old toothpaste was brown.

Still mildly infuriating...

I recently planted some vegetable seedlings and discovered that I have a very big snail problem. So yesterday I went and spread snail pellets everywhere.

This morning I found a resident blue tongue lizard had just woken up from its hibernation (new house so was unknown to me I had a lizard friend).

I'm quite fond of lizards and lizards are quite fond of snails so I just spent an hour picking up all the snail pellets I just put down so my new lizard friend doesn't die.

Snail pellets are very small and my fingers are very big. Thankyou for listening.

Pellets all mixed into the straw in the photo so you can't really see many. But trust me, there was a lot.

I (30M) have a middle name that is my mother's maiden name, so in essence my name is like John Wilbur Jackson, and people will always say "so your last name is Wilbur-Jackson?" Then I'll have to explain that my family has this tradition of using the mother's maiden name as the child's middle name, "But it's a last name!" They'll say, correct but its being used as a middle name. Then they'll try to explain my own name to me like I'm the idiot in this situation.