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If you could ban yourself from listening to a podcast, which would you pick and why?

Thanks! Love the show, smiled for a day straight when you read my ban. We just need some Ban t-shirts now.

I love HEB and shop at my small town store all the time, but your in-store coupons give me fits. They are usually great deals, but deciphering them is unusually hard at times. I seem to have a 20% rate of failure using them since I seem to be grabbing the wrong things. I have worked for many years as a technical writer and somehow I can understand engineering documents but I can't grab the right salsa at the store. Is there some kind of trick to getting the right thing?

It seems like my success is related to the cashier. There is one at my store that will never give me the benefit of the doubt and just seems sick of the job and people trying to use coupons. I have begun to avoid that line when I can. How much control do cashiers have over whether the coupon goes through?

I know this seems silly, but I have social anxiety that manifests itself when I have to buy something. When I was young, I couldn't think about interacting with someone at a store without crying. I'm pretty much over it, but these coupons give me fits. I want to get the discounts, but I spend too much time reading and rereading them and then scouring the store to try to make sure that I am getting the right thing. In the end, I still feel really foolish as some bitchy cashier just stares at me after telling me I grabbed the wrong bag of dog treats that seems to be covered by the language on the coupon. It is almost enough to make me drive an hour to use the self checkouts at a big HEB plus (awesome btw).

One last thing, do you go for HEB or hill country fare?

Thanks for that, it is pretty much what I suspected. I always read the coupons carefully, but I think that I am foiled by different varieties of the same brand. Like the salsa, there are 6 different lines of HEB salsa and I picked the wrong one when the the coupon just said "HEB salsa".

Sometimes I think that I am foiled by the fact that I am shopping in a small store. I swear that sometimes they put out a coupon that has an item on it that isn't in the store. I have picked up a coupon and spent a few minutes searching for the other item on the coupon just to give up when I couldn't find it.