mikao's world

so Holly and I went grocery shopping like we normally do, like most normal people do, and we happened to be in the produce section getting apples and snapped a nice photo for future scrapbooking purposes... and less than twenty seconds later the following communication interchange took place:

SuperStoreManagerLady: hello ladies, how are you doing shopping today?

Me: um... good, thanks.

SuperStoreManagerLady: Good to hear. Is it true that you have been taking some pictures?

Me: uh... yes.

SSML May I ask of what?

Me: Um... Holly putting apples in a bag...

SSML: And, may I ask what for?

Holly: For her scrapbook.

SSML: Are you sure?

Us: Yes! We're sure.

Me: Yeah, we know what we're doing.

SSML: Yes, because it's against SuperStore policy for any photographs to be taken because then our display ideas may be copied at stores elsewhere, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah so we would appreciate it if you did not take any more photographs.

Us: umm..... okay. sure. yeah. alrighty then.

Yes, strange SuperStoreManagerLady, we were planning to steal your display ideas. Yes, it's true, we are secretly billionaire grocery store developers in our early twenties who plan to develop numerous new grocery stores in the Moose Jaw area although there are already too many, and we are going to take away all your business by secretly taking photographs of your apple pile so that we can copy it in our store. Yes, yes, that's what we were doing. and we secretly planted spy cams all over your store while we were at it so that we can continue to spy on you. And, just for good measure, in the future, all of your shoppers will be secret undercover shoppers, not legitimate citizens coming to pump their cash into your store so that somewhere a gazillionaire can make more money off of unsuspecting people trying to save money forced to buy grocery bags because you don't give them out and forced to bag their own groceries because you're too cheap to hire unemployed 16-year-olds to bag them for your customers.