Sunday, 26 February 2012

Shelf Stacking





Andy,
if I've told you once,
I've told you a HUNDRED times before:

ALL TINS
must be the RIGHT way up!

See that one on the top shelf?

Well then, DO something about it!
And never mind about being distracted by your art,
you can concentrate on THAT
in your OWN time.



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59 comments:

  1. Tom26 February 2012 at 17:35

    Hee hee. The stacking of the cans reminds me just a little bit of the ... stacking in your closets. Very clever!

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  2. Kathryn26 February 2012 at 17:36

    Andy indeed. Is this how he got his start?

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  3. schmidleysscribblins,wordpress.com26 February 2012 at 17:39

    Friko,

    How observant of you to notice the upside down can on the top shelf. However, where is your evidence that Andy did it? If he is the stock clerk, I think he should be proved innocent.

    Even if he did it, he has paper towels in his basket, many paper towels, which means he is a customer looking for cans of soup to add to his shopping.

    He is also sight impaired,and he might put one back in the wrong place.

    He will need the towels to mop up the soup he spills when he does his soup drip painting which will be tomato red I think.

    Dianne

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  4. Anonymous26 February 2012 at 17:41

    My very first job was as a shelf stacker in a supermarket ... you need to do something to relieve the monotony!

    Nice light hearted post.

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  5. Mimi Foxmorton26 February 2012 at 17:41

    Holy Wow!
    Superb!
    And what observational powers you have!
    :)

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  6. Doctor FTSE26 February 2012 at 17:41

    Now I know why I've never appreciated his iconic painting. I've got it hung upside down!
    Great Magpie, Friko.

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  7. Elizabeth Rose Stanton26 February 2012 at 17:44

    Hysterical! (and I like Doctor FTSE's comment :) )

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  8. Jackie Jordan26 February 2012 at 17:55

    Funny! Didn't everyone work in a grocery store at least once in their life?

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  9. VioletSky26 February 2012 at 17:57

    and I find it irritating when the labels are not all facing forwards (specifically to the English side)!

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  10. Suze26 February 2012 at 18:07

    In the future, everyone will enjoy fifteen minutes of oblivion.

    Mmm, mmm, good.

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  11. Helen26 February 2012 at 18:27

    I must show this to my son ... he works at the front of a large supermarket. 'Blocking' is what he does at the end of each shift .. putting items back where they belong, right side up! This is priceless.

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  12. Mr. Charleston26 February 2012 at 19:34

    Excited that his mother is going to take him to see the Queen on her 60th, Andy, his basket already loaded with ultra-absorbent paper towels, now focuses on the tomato soup. It's his one shot at fame.

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  13. Vagabonde26 February 2012 at 19:49

    I was in admiration at your closet – so spacious! I, also, have many outfits from my corporate days, and even earlier – I tell my husband that those hippie outfits from the sixties will be worth some money sometime… I also would like to be friend with a catholic during Lent (or any religious person who gives up chocolate) as I am not religious but very willing to help by eating the chocolate for them! Looking at your picture of the stack of cans – it takes so long going to the supermarket with my husband as he likes to move cans around so they are straight. My daughters have inherited this passion of keeping cans straight and they get upset when I mess up their neat little stacks.

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  14. Jinksy26 February 2012 at 20:05

    Well spotted, and delightfully sent up! :)

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  15. LC26 February 2012 at 20:10

    A delightful visit thanks to you, Friko, and your delightful community of commenters!

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  16. Brian Miller26 February 2012 at 20:12

    haha so that is where he got his inspiration....

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  17. Kay L. Davies26 February 2012 at 20:31

    I also failed shelf-stocking, so I empathize with Andy. A couple of years later, people stocking supermarket shelves were making more than I was making as a feature writer for a small-town daily. Career choices, always a gamble.
    K

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  18. Windsmoke.26 February 2012 at 20:48

    I reckon a customer changed his/her mind and put the can back on the shelf upside down and poor Andy got the blame for it :-).

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  19. YONKS26 February 2012 at 21:09

    That IS so observant of you. is that really Andy Warhol, or just a lookie-likey?
    Di
    x

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  20. christopher26 February 2012 at 21:27

    Yes indeed, quite observant. Good of you to point it out. The photo is considerably deeper because of that upside down can, once you see it.

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  21. Wisewebwoman26 February 2012 at 21:52

    Andy, desperately seeking Warhol, lurks for weeks behind the soup display.
    XO
    WWW

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  22. ellen abbott26 February 2012 at 21:56

    Oh, clever girl.

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  23. Barb26 February 2012 at 22:11

    I knew he he had to get his start somewhere.

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  24. Elephant's Child26 February 2012 at 22:13

    That upside down can leapt out at me swearing. Which probably explains why, sadly, I am not an artist.

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  25. Karen26 February 2012 at 23:59

    Andy did that on purpose ;)

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  26. June27 February 2012 at 00:03

    You are as quick-witted as you are strong-willed, Friko.

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  27. Sally Wessely27 February 2012 at 00:34

    Very clever indeed.

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  28. rkbsnana27 February 2012 at 03:52

    That's funny

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  29. Cloudia27 February 2012 at 04:10

    Andy Besmitten! I too saw it right off LOL.


    jolly\



    Warm Aloha from Honolulu
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  30. Cloudia27 February 2012 at 04:11

    so easy to comment again!


    J O Y !

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  31. The Broad27 February 2012 at 07:43

    :-)

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  32. Don't Feed The Pixies27 February 2012 at 08:02

    it does look like mr warhol, doesn't it

    Would the world of art have been the same if he had bought Baxters, or Heinz instead of Campbells?

    Hmmm

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  33. Carolina27 February 2012 at 11:11

    Clever you!

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  34. DJan27 February 2012 at 13:49

    What a clever take on this. You are as always very sharp, Friko. I enjoy your intellectual journeys. :-)

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  35. Penny27 February 2012 at 15:45

    I know I'll have a hard time controlling my laughter when I get to the soup aisle at the grocers. I'm having a hard time right now.

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  36. Martin27 February 2012 at 17:21

    And aren't you glad he did concentrate on his art?

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  37. Little Nell27 February 2012 at 17:41

    Very clever- been there, done that, but I was never distracted by my art!

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  38. Jono27 February 2012 at 18:23

    If someone is truly OCD, then they should be CDO. Andy Warhol would be proud!

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  39. jabblog27 February 2012 at 18:57

    Very well-observed Friko.

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  40. Susan Scheid28 February 2012 at 02:19

    I, for one, am amazed that you spotted that wrong-way up tin. Do you think that's how Warhol came up with his Campbell's Soup obsession?

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  41. Dee Ready28 February 2012 at 02:34

    Dear Friko,

    You just keeping finding subjects that you can write about with a different slant. Like light coming through a window and casting itself on the carpet a different way throughout the seasons.

    Peace.

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  42. Maude Lynn28 February 2012 at 02:43

    Ha ha! Clever one!

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  43. shoreacres28 February 2012 at 03:12

    Roses are red, violets are blue,
    there's hardly a blogger
    as clever as you.


    ;-)

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  44. JJ Roa Rodriguez28 February 2012 at 03:28

    cute and funny! nice observation...

    JJRod'z

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  45. Wayne Pitchko28 February 2012 at 03:38

    very nice take on the pic...thanks for sharing this

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  46. Tumblewords:28 February 2012 at 04:33

    Laughing. Too funny! Didn't even notice the upside down tin.

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  47. kaykuala28 February 2012 at 14:11

    You caught me there, Friko! Didn't see it coming!

    Hank

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  48. Trellissimo28 February 2012 at 16:38

    You never disappoint, m'dear... :)

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  49. Jayne28 February 2012 at 17:34

    So that's what Andy did before he started painting!

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  50. Rita28 February 2012 at 22:52

    LOL! I've had to do that. Worked in a grocery store for a time. ;)

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  51. Pauline28 February 2012 at 23:13

    And when you've finished with the soup, restack those paper towels! Never mind trying to make them look like a forest this time...

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  52. Pearl29 February 2012 at 13:28

    :-) Good eye, Friko!

    Pearl

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  53. Anonymous29 February 2012 at 17:42

    Ha, Du hast wahrlich ein aufmerksames Auge und was Du aus dem - verzeih mir - eigentlich recht langweiligen Bilde gemacht hast, ist doch erstaunlich!
    Dir einen guten und friedlichen Abend!
    Renée, bis bald!

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  54. Kathy29 February 2012 at 18:29

    Yet again you give the ordinary a completely different slant, Friko. The eye of an artist....

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  55. Tess Kincaid29 February 2012 at 19:05

    All of us worked at a grocery store at one time or another...

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  56. Jeanie1 March 2012 at 00:05

    Ha! One of my pet peeves, too! Nicely captured!

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  57. Helena1 March 2012 at 20:04

    Hee hee......that's how to tell him...!!

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  58. ds3 March 2012 at 17:51

    You are so observant! This is wonderful. Thank you. *giggle, giggle*

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  59. Red Nomad OZ4 March 2012 at 11:25

    Haha! But for whose benefit do the cans have to be the same way? The illiterate store manager, the illiterate customer or the illiterate shelf-stacker??!!

    Sorry to hear of your troubles in the previous post. Hope all is well.

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