Before we get to the “WTH?” portion of today’s post, let’s recap the week’s workouts:
Monday: Rest
Tuesday: 5 miles, speedwork on mill 800m repeats
Wednesday: 1 hr. Bike & Swim
Thursday: 5 miles
Friday: Yoga + 3 trail miles
Saturday: 8 miles
Sunday: Strength
Overall it was an uneventful week. Weather, although milder, is still so grey and raw. Running is in sort of a holding pattern, although I did signup for the Perfect 10 miler on April 9 and I have my first race of the year (finally) this weekend. I shudder to think what kind of 5k time I have in me at this point as the amount of speedwork I’ve done is negligible.
One of my goals this year is to be better about doing my dynamic warmup and post-run stretching/foam rolling. Getting back to that also reminded me there was some corework I’d also stopped doing. So I added it back and holy ouch! It’s amazing how we let some things slip away, thinking there will be little consequence when in fact that’s not the case. What I should have done is change up my corework, rather than drop it completely. Hindsight is 20/20.
Switching gears to a couple of WTH moments this week:
Did you ever have a cashier at the grocery store comment about every single thing you’re buying as they ring it up? Awkward much? Even more irritating is when they do this to the person ahead of you in line when there is a grand total of two registers open, each with 17 shoppers waiting to check out. And they pause and read the label of each item and say “hmmm….I didn’t know we sold this….is it good?” Are they trained to make convo??
Is it me or do you get weird Twitter followers? Typically it appears to be a benign cute girl or guy. But if you scroll through some of their tweets you inevitably see the naked booty shots, bikini this and that and those are the tame ones. One this morning tweeted a link to “butt-hole” chocolates. Um, no thanks. That’s just gross. Here I thought all the porn peeps hung out on Periscope.
What is up with Pinterest? I get notices all day long that people are following me. Some I follow back, some I don’t. Yet when I look at my total follower number, it barely budges. Are all these people (gasp!) following then unfollowing? We’ve never seen that before, have we?
How about you? What was fun for you this week? Any “WTH” moments? Did you enter my giveaways here and here?
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Great job on your workouts for the wk. I have never had a cashier asks about the items I am buying. But it is frustrating when there is only two lines at check out. I get random twitter followerers as well. And now I am getting ones on instagram. It’s weird bc I know I never started following them and some are even in a different language.
The same thing happens to me on Pinterest….sometimes I even notice my number of followers goes down. And I actually don’t pay attention to who follows me on twitter…I bet there are some weirdos that follow me too!
The cashiers are Trader Joes are really friendly but I don’t get the sense they are “trained’ to make conversation. I think maybe they only hire people who are friendly because it seems pretty genuine, but maybe not?
I get weird twitter and IG followers. Glad to say none of my cashiers have commented on my items.
The grocery store convo is weird, I’ve had that a few times before. One time the guy bagging my groceries was eyeing up my Pop-Tart selection (when my boys were home). I smiles and said, “yeah, my son wanted pop-tarts and said to surprise him on the flavor.” The Grocery bagger just shook his head and muttered “shoulda got cherry.” We laugh about that story now. And seriously, the follow/unfollow from totally random accounts is annoying but I stopped paying attention. I’ve actually been in a state of social media avoidance this week as a side effect of my injury. I’m sure that will pass but right now I don’t want to deal with Facebook or IG or Strava. Have a great week Marcia!
Well, at least that cashier isn’t trying to force the senior discount down your throat!!! (All better now). I’m pretty sure your 5k time will put mine to shame! I’ve begrudgingly been doing some core work for about a month now. I’m on the floor already doing my assigned PT exercises — so I thought, what the heck. I don’t Twitter. OMG. What you have just described is…disturbing. Thanks for linking with us Marcia.
I know I had an intense WTH moment this week but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. I think it was to do with driving and the behaviour of other drivers but that’s where the vague memory ends. I thought running was supposed to keep your brain useful.
It doesn’t seem like my Pinterest numbers ever change! But yes to the weird twitter and IG followers. You know I block a ton of peeps on IG. I don’t get the naked PG posts. And why they want to follow me.
The one thing the grocery store clerks comment on that bugs me is my bags. Yes, I bring my own bags. Yes, I have a ton of them. And why do they feel the need to comment on that? Just get it over with, call me a hoarder, call me a bag lady.
LOL on the chatty cashier. Today I was trying to get a piece of salmon and the couple ahead of me kept asking the butcher about fish they WEREN’T buying – detailed questions about how to cook different types even though they’d already gotten what they needed this week. ~sigh~
OMGOSH THAT CHECKOUT PERSON THING!!
I used to get that all the damn time until — at least in Austin :-)— most people became as weird as I with the chia and the hemp and the flax and the….
LOL! I just recently had the check out person comment on some chia bars I was buying and asking me all about chia as they had never heard of it. I wanted to say “Google it and just check me out please!!!” Crazy. And, unfortunately I have had that situation on Twitter. Gross.
WOW. Just wow. Twitter definitely has a lot of spam accounts, and I think Insta does too. I think some of the social media platforms send you multiple notices when people follow you. I’ve noticed this with Twitter too. Great week of workouts – hope this week is more tame! 🙂
I’ve been getting the porno followers on IG; it’s very annoying.
Oh my god! I had a moment with a cashier this week that I was not happy about either! After my 9 mile run, I went to the grocery store, and as always I took my own bags. I need to say first that I was cold, hungry, and tired so I was in a short tempered mood. She asked me if I wanted everything in a bag…. oookk…. weird question! I brought my OWN BAGS… so I gave her a very short “Yes! please!”. Then she asked me again, “Do you want your San Pellegrino in a bag?” so I said “Yes, put it all in the bags please!”. Then she asked me *AGAIN* about my rotisserie chicken “Do you want the chicken in the bag?”. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL GROCERY BAGS LADY!! JUST PUT EVERYTHING IN BAGS!
YAY, you signed up for Chicago’s Perfect 10!!! We’ll definitely have to meet up there, too! (Admittedly I am wondering if the race is still going to go on as planned, or if they’ll end up cancelling last minute again. It looks like registration numbers are low. Fingers crossed!) They haven’t announced anything about packet pickup but I’m more than happy to get yours for you if they don’t offer race-day pickup.
I get annoyed with cashier small talk sometimes, too. I can vouch that when I worked as a cashier in high school, we were taught to try to make conversation with customers. But there’s definitely a time and a place for it. The important thing is to do it in a genuine, yet efficient manner, yes?
I get a lot of pornstar followers on Instagram. They usually either unfollow me or disappear within a couple of days. It’s weird.
I have had some pretty sketchy IG followers lately! But haven’t noticed it on Twitter.
I hate those chatty grocery clerks… friendly is nice, chatty, not so much!
I am NOT a fan of the chit chat about my items at the check out. At all. And I have that same thing with Pinterest followers! It goes up and down about 10 a day. #annoying
My kids will never ever ever have a social media account -as long as I live. . Seriously! I scroll past so much garbage.. :/
Hope you weren’t buying feminine products. That could be embarrassing.
I’ve heard several do the follow then unfollow thing. Rude if you ask me, but I’ve tried to focus less on the numbers. Have a great week, Marcia!
Cashiers rarely comment on my items but I tend to always be behind the person the cashier is commenting on which is very annoying! I get lots of weird twitter and IG followers. I never really figured out Pinterest so I just let it be. Good week of training for you! Hope you get some sunshine soon!
My WTH moment was when an old guy and a kid knocked on my door Sat. afternoon with pamphlets that were clearly about their religion/church what have you. Before they even went into their spiel, I said “No thank you” and shut the door. I HATE being solicited at my home about pretty much anything.
i am not good at checking my Pinterest anything………. I find grocery store clerks generally irritating that is why I am happy that my hubby does most of it. I do stop for the BOGO wine though and often get that same ?- are you planning a party and then I politely tell them I am drinking it all as soon as i get home 🙂 #keepthemguessing!
Here in NJ the cash register doesn’t even talk to you. And oh I have some strange followers too
Glad to see I’m not the only one dealing with the cashier commentary – so weird! I have the same problem with Pinetrest and Instagram – I just don’t get the whole follow, immediately unfollow thing.
The cashier story is so funny. Yes I’ve had cashiers talk about how I’m cooking something or tell me a recipe with an item I’m buying.
My WTH moment happens everytime I turn on the news and watch what is going on with the presidential campaigns…..
Ha I just read Karen’s reply above mine! 🙂 My WTH happened today, we were super swamped at work both yesterday and today, I looked at my calendar an saw it was Tuesday…. no TOTR post ready. But I got er’ done! Speaking of the cashier commenting on items, once I had to buy like a case of mineral oil for our horses. If they start to colic you can give them mineral oil to them, well when I put like a doz normal bottles on the counter, I get some really crazy looks! I wonder if they thought I get constipated that much! Bahahaha!!!
Oh, I had a WTH moment last week in my swim suit. Obviously, it had been a few (or several) months since I’ve been outside in the daylight in my (short) running shorts….and there were a few ever so subtle “ripples” that I don’t remember seeing before. Maybe I have been over-indulging on the chai latte’s, but my inner(upper) thighs are needing some firming/toning. Thankfully, I am tall (so it’s not obvious to probably anyone other than myself) and I will be upping my mileage to get back in prime “13.1-ready” condition, so the muscles will be getting a little more work. #confession #keepingitreal
I haven’t seen my pinterest numbers budge in forever! I’ve never had that experience at the grocery store. Maybe it’s because we are in the city and they know everyone is in a rush? 😉