Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for February 05, 2022

I certainly didn’t expect that.

Fresh seafood from the 3 Mile Island Fishery.

Will that monster fit in one bag or two?

It has no bar code. Is it free?

And that’s what the mother who was expecting gave birth to?

Aha. Just what the alien astronaut theorists had always suspected!

Junior, how did you get out of the cart?

Unexpected understatement from automated cashier.

He’s got a Black Eye. Must have been fighting again.

My local store is so expensive that they call it the “bragging area.”

I hate checking out my own groceries.

How did this creature get to the self checkout?

Is that the Spanish Inquisition?

“Cleanup on eye level five.”

An E.T. from the A.&P.

As the technology evolves…unexpected item in your baggie jeans.

“Unidentifiable item in bagging area,” you mean.

Ex-ter-mi-nate!

Exterminate!

This happens to me often, but I never have anything as interesting as this one in my bagging area.

I’m here to prove the axiom wrong… I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition

She certainly wasn’t expecting that item!

Tesco’s self service checkout is the stupidest man can make. It is pretty common that you already paid, and it still whines that you removed something from the packing area, then the next second it urges you to remove your goods…