Suggestive Selling

As you know, I work as a cashier at a local grocery store. One of the things we are supposed to do is a thing called "suggestive selling". An example would be if I'm ringing up a customer that has purchased strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, I typically mention the time I got a honeydew melon, cut it in half, ate the white middle out but left the green and then put the strawberries, blackberries and raspberries in the middle (along with frozen daiquiri mix) and ate it all together. I would also mentioned how delightful and yummy it was. As you can see, by suggestive selling, it plants an idea in the customer's head that if they add honeydew and possibly daiquiri mix to what they already buy, it will make a yummy concoction.

Well, today, I had an old man who bought an issue of Sports Illustrated, the swimsuit issue. I just spoke with him but didn't do any suggestive selling. My co-workers were all on break and so I went over and told them about the customer and said, "How does one suggestive sell the swimsuit issue? Should I have suggested he get KY jelly as well?". They all busted out laughing. Then I said, "And I typically do suggestive selling by telling the customer how I do it." And that cracked them up even more.

Making people laugh is so much fun!

V2cigs V2 Economy Kit (Part 1 of 2)

While I've been very happy smoking Camel Wides, both red and menthol, I recently made an impulse purchase because I wanted to try an electronic cigarette. I was at the local gas station and, at the checkout, they had a display of 21 Century Smoking e-cigs. They were of the cheap, throwaway variety. I choose menthol because Sasha was with me and wanted to try as well.

Neither one of us was very impressed. Like Catherine Goodman states: "Although not as satisfying as a real cigarette...", and she wasn't kidding. Sasha was so unimpressed that she didn't want it, so I kept it and used it when inside. I will admit that, after awhile, I did get used to it and, Miss Goodman is correct, in that I did not feel the need to light up, plus, I was not missing the smoke and smell. However, I was searching for something that gives an even better nicotine fix than my cheap throwaway.

So I went to Electronic Cigarettes Reviews and noted that V2cigs was at the top of the list. After reading the review, I was already quite impressed and visiting V2cigs website impressed me even more. In another impulsive decision, I had to try these and when I noticed that ECR was offering 10% off an order, I placed an order for the V2 Economy Kit, which is the Starter Kit that I was eying with envy.

According to the Savings Calculator, I'll save $51.40 monthly and $616.85 annually. I don't know about you, but I can buy a lot of things for $616.85. Plus, I can smoke inside with no odor, no smoke, no messy ashes and no tar.

I am looking forward to their arrival as I can not wait to try them out. I ordered them today, April 27, 2011, so we'll see how long it takes for them to arrive, and then I'll give them a full review here in Part 2.

Chicken or Egg?

For ages, people have pondered the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg. Using a bit of logic, the answer to this question still isn't easy. If the egg came first, there is no way for it to hatch. If there is a chicken present to hatch the egg, then, umm, the chicken came first, not the egg. People who insist that the egg came first claim that maybe another creature hatched the egg or that the climate was conducive to hatching.

The climate was certainly not conducive to hatching. Temperature changes, water, wind, etc all make it impossible for an egg to hatch if just left out. As for another creature hatching the egg, why would it? Why would it find this random egg and decide to hatch it? Why would it just sit there on this egg and keep it warm, when egg hatching isn't something it normally would do? Unless, of course, the egg came from said creature.

It has always been my belief that either the chicken came first or some creature laid the first chicken egg. So, ya, chicken or egg, which came first? Don't really know...