At the upscale supermarket, there's an occasional sighting of a dowager plucking items off the shelves and a butler wheeling the cart.
"I sell things, and then I cry," she says pining, dressing guests as they stand adoringly plucking items from cupboards and hangers.
But then there are the more common menial positions, like Amazon's "pickers," who scurry throughout the massive warehouses plucking item after item for shipment, or Walmart's "lumpers," who load and unload trucks throughout the day, sometimes paid according to "piece rate" to encourage them to work faster.
It will chase faster moving prey, reach up to take food from plants, and wade to pluck food items from the water.
I knelt transfixed before my open bag, gnashing teeth and rending garments as I plucked sodden items from the morass.
A bigger example: A Polo distribution center in Greensboro, N.C. received dailydeliveries of products, stocked them on shelves and then plucked out items for shipment to retailers.
Others dig through the bins, plucking seasonal items to put on hangers, to bring into the client "showroom," where recipients will finally make their selections.
Primates are hand-to-mouth feeders that pluck and catch items selectively by hand before ingesting them.
He can threaten to pluck lawmakers' favorite items out of the budget, for example, and he still has the power of the veto.
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