Long Lines For No Apparent Reason

July 4, 2005

By Bump Diamond
Man About Town

    I don't mean to be gripin', what with a bona fide summer day out there and all, but wow the situation at Vons last night was way grim.
    This was about 7 o'clock, and there were only four checkers there, and there was no express line, and it was about an hour before the fireworks were going to go off and the lines stretched back almost all the way to the aspertame products, if you know what I mean.
    I had about seven items, but the people in front of me had only one bag of dogfood and it took 20 minutes, inching up and inching up, to get there.
    There was a curveball in there, too.
    The fact is, the store wasn't crowded. The parking lot was maybe one-third full, tops.
    So the lesson is, um, er, ah.  I dunno what the lesson is.

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