Anyways, I had placed the beverage in my shopping cart when suddenly I hear a lot of yelling and scuttling about behind me. I turn around and there an employee and a customer yelling at another customer. Apparently, the first customer -- let's call him Ludwig -- saw the other customer -- we'll call him Kumar -- eating something he hadn't paid for and had reported it to the manager. (Maybe I should say Ludwig allegedly saw Kumar eating something -- but I'm not sure whether the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing works over here.)
Kumar is all like, "What, what did I do? I don't have anything." And then Ludwig went rummaging around in a display case thingy that was loaded with chips and pulls out an empty foil wrapper. Then Kumar changes his story. Instead of, "I don't have anything," he starts saying, "I've already paid for it. Why can't I eat it? I've already paid."
Meanwhile, I'm stuck between two of those display case thingys full of chips with my back against the wall-o-sodas, my grocery cart in front of me and these yelling people right in front of my cart. I wasn't really scared that something bad was going to go down, I just felt quite uncomfortable. It's not like I could just turn around and inspect the soft drinks and act like there wasn't a huge scene going on behind me. I had to stand there and watch! The whole thing probably lasted less than 30 seconds, but it was a pretty tense 30 seconds.
Ten or 15 minutes later as I was leaving the store, I saw the manager and Ludwig talking to two police officers. There was no sign of Kumar. I should have checked the backseat of the police car out front to see if they had him in custody.
And speaking of cop cars, I took some photos a while back I wanted to show you. The police cars here look a bit different than what I'm used to from the U.S. The first photo below shows a typical police car.
But this one is my favorite police vehicle.
4 comments:
I love the bucket tip!!! I am definately going to do that! Thanks.
It would be really hard to take a policeman seriously if he was riding a scooter. I'd probably get thrown in the klink for excessive giggling.
I'm glad you waited until after our trip to Vienna to decide to switch to Pepsi. I'm pretty flexible with my diet drinks, but I refuse to drink diet Pepsi.
What's funny about that scooter is that there were three cops and only the one scooter. It's funny enough to think about a cop on a scooter, but can you imagine two cops on a scooter? We saw the police car in the parking lot, so I guess there was only one police man on the scooter.
I used to be the same way with Pepsi, but when there's more than a euro difference in price (it was about $1.60 more per 2-liter for Diet Coke), you learn to make sacrifices. That's what this is all about right. :) I still prefer the generic brand, but even more so I prefer only going to one grocery store.
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