Call of Duty on iPad with a controller :-)

I was in New World Karori first thing this morning to buy a single item; they had one staff member on checkout and I arrived just as another customer starting loading their full trolley onto the conveyor. So they paged another staff member to checkout! I was stunned! It has totally made my day.

TinyTim:

 

I was in New World Karori first thing this morning to buy a single item; they had one staff member on checkout and I arrived just as another customer starting loading their full trolley onto the conveyor. So they paged another staff member to checkout! I was stunned! It has totally made my day. 

Pretty much standard for there. Might be a tiny supermarket in terms of physical size, but the service is generally excellent there 😀

Productive days!

networkn:Productive days!

As against 99% of them! (Well it seems like it sometimes)

TinyTim:

I was in New World Karori first thing this morning to buy a single item; they had one staff member on checkout and I arrived just as another customer starting loading their full trolley onto the conveyor. So they paged another staff member to checkout! I was stunned! It has totally made my day.

SepticSceptic:
Before the days of self-service checkouts, when I had a loaded trolley, I used to let those with a couple of items thru in front of me.

Made me smile when you did that for me.  Then you kept smiling when I flicked through the New World discount coupons in my booklet, handed them over, operator realised that they'd expired - my Watties baked beans weren't on special since yesterday, I frowned, was given the new booklet, thumbed through. But the Oak ones were, complained to the checkout operator, who asked a floor staffer to swap them over, chatted about the bluebird penguin on my chips pack for a few minutes.  Went to pay with the last cheque in the book, wrote seven dollars and eleven cents, should have been eleven dollars and seven cents, pen ran out of ink as I was signing, operator found new pen under stuff in a drawer. I was getting flustered, crossed out the mistake, wrote seven cents and ele... Oh no. Operator calls grocery department manager - who'd once worked as a bank teller - who after some discussion was adamant that the cheque was ruined.  Oops, only have a ten dollar note in my wallet, ask to return the beans, then change my mind and decide I need them, so the chips can go.  All done - at least once the operator had changed the receipt roll in the cash register. You're still smiling, but it's looking forced.  Five fully loaded trolleys have gone through the checkout next door, and you're still smiling with all the sincerity of an instagram influencer, decades ahead of your time, promoting the use of Bluo laundry whitener to remove nicotine stains from dentures.  I ponder asking about that, then decide I best just go, giving you the subtle kiwi "thanks nod" and sideways smile as I head for the door.  

Ubuntu now installed on super-fast NVME SSD :)

The heat pump we recently installed in our Lounge. I was worried it wouldn't heat as well as our Pellet Fire, but it's freaking amazing how quickly it works and most of all how much quieter!

Now I just need a decent deal on high use electricity!

networkn:

The heat pump we recently installed in our Lounge. I was worried it wouldn't heat as well as our Pellet Fire, but it's freaking amazing how quickly it works and most of all how much quieter!

afe66:
wheres the matches and who forgot to restock wood basket with wood and kindling...

Don't have that issue with a pellet fire.  They are nothing if not convenient.

I don't mind getting firewood, cutting kindling, lighting the fire, it makes me smile.  Genetic memory?  I don't care.  It changes the entire "feeling" of a room - not sure if that can be measured or why it matters if it could be.  It is what it is.