The Sims Have Invaded Meijer Thrifty Acres!

It is inevitable that I have to stop at Meijer or Kroger almost every night.  I'm like a regular.

I prefer using the U-Scan checkouts recently because the lines tend to be shorter and sometimes they are funny, but that's a whole other post.  I suck at bagging groceries, by the way.

Today, however, I was freaked right the hell  out. 

Meijers has installed brand new!  Super high-tech!  Interactive with graphics!  U-Scan machines.  They scared the absolute shit out of me because they have people on them and THESE PEOPLE ARE THE SIMS!  They are actually doing what the machine is telling you to do!  And they look exactly like the Sims!  Okay, so mine didn't have on Doc Martens and a punk rock outfit, but other than that, it was the Sims!  She was sort of the trying to be cutting edge soccer mom Sim, but she was a Sim, nonetheless.

I am so scared.  I used to play the Sims all the time, like an addict picking through the nap of the unvacuumed carpet for the last rock.   I had to quit playing the Sims because my Sims always hated me. It was no fun anymore, no joy.  They were always depressed, always burning down the house, getting Clowns as special guests they couldn't get rid of, crying because they had to go to work, they wouldn't exercise or learn to cook,  they missed the pizza guy when he came, they'd get in the hot tub at 3 a.m. and then get out and start grilling burgers (all in the space of time it took me to go to the bathroom and take my contacts out while thinking, "Gee, I can not hit pause and let them do their own thing for three minutes and 18 seconds! What could happen?"  I was naive, okay?)

I'm even more frightened because the guy running the U-Scan, the one who helps those of us who are too terrorized to figure out that we have to actually insert the coupons now instead of just giving them to him (I wasn't comprehending that my Meijer Sim was doing that, I was too nonplussed at the Sims being in the Meijer U-Scan check-out), I told him, "Dude", and I can call him that because he sees me in there every day and he's like a skater type dude with black and bleached blonde hair, I told him, "Dude, these people on here look just like the Sims!" 

And Dude, what does he say?  "Yeah, cool, huh?"

Comments

[Michelle]

I haven't encountered that yet...the thought is scary. You know how in love I am with Meijer's...BLECH!

I have an idea...make Martin go. He LOVES the Sims! LOL.

[Nadine]

Oh Lisa, that's too funny! Here we've got Albertson's. They've got TV screens all over the place, hanging over the produce bins, the frozen food bins, and at the cash registers. They're motion activated, apparently. Every time someone comes near, the thing starts telling you how to grill something, slice something, or what have you.

It freaked me out the first time I noticed. I was head first in the freezer case looking at chicken breasts, and this booming voice started leturing me on how to fillet a fish! Talk about chills! For the sake of my nerves, I avoid them at all costs.

I've found if you're quick enough, moving with the cat-like precision of a Navy Seal, you can bypass the "Becky Home Ecky" (great expression, Lisa!) video alltogether.

[grandmaboo]

Lisa, what or who are SIMS?

[denny]

you are very funny. my favorite is taking cans back. there is something satisfying about the crunch of cansmackers. and i can feel good about recycling too, if i can only get my shoes unstuck from the floor.