The cashier's 3-word comment made me rethink my whole grocery routine

She said 'you always rush' after watching me grab items without checking dates, and now I spend 5 extra minutes in the dairy aisle but haven't thrown out sour milk in 6 weeks, has anyone else had a stranger's throwaway line actually fix a bad habit?

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bethj441mo ago

Grabbed my phone to reply but got distracted thinking about the cashier at my local bodega who once told me "you smell like pine trees" and now I literally cannot buy any other air freshener for my car without feeling guilty. Weird how a random comment can just stick in your brain like that. But yeah, the dairy thing is real, I started doing the same after a cashier pointed out my milk was already chunky and I was just shaking it trying to convince myself it was fine. Now I check every single date on everything, even canned beans, which is honestly probably overkill but whatever works.