I don’t have any special technolgy news to tell you about with barcodes and earthworms, but I do have a good fishing story to tell you. It’s actually about the trip to the bait and tackle shop before the fishing trip ever started. Me and a buddy was getting ready to go fishing and we needed a few fishing supplies. One of those items was live bait and we did want a box of Canadian Nightcrawlers. The store that we went to had those typical barcodes on all their items, so they could just scan them at the checkout lines. Even the tub of earth worms we bought had that special barcode on the bottom of the container. I’m not sure who was the genius that decided to put the barcode label on the bottom, but it didn’t fare too well when the cashier used the barcode scanner to ring up our order. You probably can guess what happens next, but the story don’t quite end there. Yes, the cashier is quickly picking up our items and scanning each one to the register. She grabs the nightcrawlers and quickly sees the barcode on the bottom and turns it upside down to scan it. The worms and the dirt quickly fall to the counter and now worms are wiggling around for everyone to see. It’s not every day that you see a cashier do this, so me and my friend’s first reaction was to laugh. This didn’t go over well with her or her manager and both gave us the evil eye. They even had the nerve to tell us to make sure the lid is on tight before bringing them to the counter. I did check the earth worms in the store, to see if they were alive before I bought them. I may have not put the lid back on tight, but didn’t purposely leave it loose either. The manager had to clean the counter because the female cashier was having nothing to do with the worms or the dirt that was now laying on her counter. We did get treated very rudely for the mistake the cashier made and the person that decided the barcode was best on the bottom. I would really hate to buy a minnow bucket and minnows at this store!