Don’t forget the Tupperware
[Jessica] Mock was about to check out Sunday at the Publix near Lake Jackson when she realized she’d forgotten to pick up Tupperware. She left her cart in the lane to get some and found another woman trying to check out ahead of her when she returned.
The two argued, and the victim moved to a different lane. They both checked out about the same time and left the store only seconds apart. Before leaving, the victim used an expletive and said, “I’ll meet you outside.” Mock replied, “I’ll see you outside.”
The victim unloaded her groceries and returned her cart, running into Mock again along the way. Mock pulled a small handgun from her waistband.
One minute it’s a quarrel over queue-jumping at the supermarket, the next it’s somebody pulling a gun.
“(Mock) pointed the gun at (the victim),” the report says. “(The victim) stated she blacked out near this time. She stated she was in fear for her life when this occurred.”
The encounter didn’t end there. After the victim drove away from the parking lot with her two children, Mock followed them. The victim called law enforcement, who stopped Mock as she followed behind the victim on Fred George Road.
Mock denied being armed inside Publix, brandishing a gun or intentionally following the victim. However, deputies searched her car and found a holstered, silver revolver in the center console. They also found the victim’s vehicle tag written on a note. Mock was taken to the Leon County Detention Center and released Monday on $1,000 bail.
People are too unstable and anger-prone to be allowed to carry guns.
Gun rights advocates are fond of saying that an armed society is a polite society, and they don’t seem to see how disgusting that sentiment truly is.
Seth — I know, right? It basically means “people will be afraid to say anything potentially offensive for fear of being shot.” Then consider how many of the people who think that’s a good idea manage to simultaneously brag about “fuck your feelings, you liberal snowflake crybaby, and go back to your safe space.” In other words, telling someone that “hey, that thing you said is offensive to me, and I’d prefer you stopped doing it” is THE END OF FREE SPEECH AS WE KNOW IT, but instilling the fear that you will murder someone for saying something you don’t like is an awesome improvement to civilization.
And — no surprise — Mock is wrong on the underlying issue, too. It’s fine to leave your cart in line at check-out if you forgot something, but if you’re not back by the time the cashier is ready for you, you lose your space. The entire line doesn’t have to sit there idle awaiting your pleasure to return. I feel like this is a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode gone wrong. We’re living in a society, people!
Yes, Screechy, my husband and I sometimes have that moment, but one of us stays with the cart and begins the process of moving through the line while the other one runs back for what we forgot. And if the cashier is done before the other one returns, we settle the bill, move on, and wait for our partner to return and go through the express lane with the one forgotten item. It’s a pain sometimes, but lots more polite…
Society only works when people give a damn about other people, and that has been falling apart for some time now. Pretty soon, it’s Mad Max time.
I don’t know if it’s still true, but one of the big points about actual Tupperware was that it wasn’t available at retail stores. You had to go to a pyramid-marketing style, ‘party’ to order it.
Shopping culture has visibly eroded in recent years. Even something as simple as keeping your cart in front of you (taking up just 1 lane) seems a lost concept. Where I’m living, it has mysteriously become standard to walk beside the front of the cart, pulling it along with one hand. This effectively makes every aisle a one-way passage.
Aaaah thank you for saying that – I DETEST this thing of pulling the cart behind you or next to you (and thus bumping into everyone). NO: you stand at the far end and push it, looking where you’re going and steering accordingly.