Re: end user vs end-user
OK, my tongue was sorta in cheek for the response, but I gotta ask:No, he used them as ingredients, rather than eating them as-is.
How did he _use_ them? Did he not have spoons and ladles so he needed the
ends to stir the meals in the pot?
How anyone could imply from that sentence that the person was "incompetentI didn't infer that from anything you wrote; I was just trying to flesh out the scenario.
or lazy" is beyond me.
I'm just imagining someone reading that sentance and
the picture in their mind is of a homeless type in rags buying ends and as
soon as he walks out the door, rips open the package and wolfs the meat
down. That's not the picture that came to *my* mind.
Right, but it could easily have come to _some_ people's minds.
While he was not a personal acquaintance of mind, the boss let it be known that the gentleman had made an arrangement with him on the basis of need. He had a fairly large family and was getting by either on unemployment or very low wages. We saved ends specifically for him, including some fairly generous ends that most stores would have kept slicing for a while. As a matter of maintaining some dignity, he expected to pay us ($3.00, as I recall, but this was in the early 1970s) for his package, rather than accepting it as a handout. The arrangement worked out fine for everyone. The store's principal gain was that we employees didn't have to feel guilty about throwing out perfectly good food (or feeding it to dogs); and at the same time we didn't have to have the case cluttered with less-than-appetizing ends.
In addition, not only down-on-their-luck people shop for bargains. I
woulnd't make that assumption based on where people shop or what they buy.
(That said, you may have known him and his circumstances, but still....)
So what's the TW tie-in? I'm still working on that. Is it Friday yet?
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