check-out line rant

[pkunk]

Just last week I went to the 10 items or less checkout at Walmart. There was a woman in front of me just starting to unload a FULL basket. I jestured to the 10 items sign and requested she move to a regular checkout. That [censored] gave me the finger. The clerk didn't know what to do. I saw a manager walking by about 20 feet away and shouter 'help needed here' and problem solved. The woman was escorted off the premises without her shop. I won't put up with those kind of people

 

[Kruse]

Originally Posted By: Leo99
Ever been behind someone in line that can't afford all they've put on the conveyor belt and realizes this after the cashier gives them the total? Then they start removing things from the purchases one by one until they have enough money to pay.


Been in the same situation quite a few times. However, the WORST time was when the lady trying to pay for it dumped out a purse full of change and made the cashier count it while everybody waited. After realizing that she didn't have enough money, then she had the cashier take off items one-by-one until all of her purse change could pay for it. You can imagine all the comments that were said to her by the people waiting in line.

About 30 years ago, I lived in the city of Dallas and there was a K-Mart that made me angry every single time I went it. (The store was close by...it took awhile for me to learn my lesson) This was right before Christmas and all the working registers had about 10 people in line. After a very long wait, I was about 3rd in line to be checked out and a fresh cashier came to the closed register next to me and started to make it live. The fresh cashier was going through all the motions of opening up a register and then pointed to me and said "I'll check you out right here." I moved over to the register, put all my items on the belt and the cashier then said: "Sorry, I don't have a key to this register. I won't be opening it up after all!" The cashier then walked away without saying another word and me having all my items on the belt. Of course, nobody was going to let me back into the old line, so I didn't even try. I think I remember leaving all my items on the belt and walking out of the store.
Like I said, this store would do something like that at every visit. It soon closed up.

 

[spackard]

Your stories reminded me of this oldie but goodie. Stan the Coffee Guy checking out at the supermarket.

 

[Panzerman]

You people need to entertain yourselves in check outs. I like to take out my phone and point it at old people when they pay or look over their shoulder so they freak out and think I am stealing thier identity. It's the best because they scurry off quickly.

 

[BrianF]

I was at a coffee shop in the city a few months back with my wife. We went in to order and were stuck behind some office types, a middle aged woman and a younger one in her late 20's. The middle aged one was ordering food and the process turned quite sour. She was arguing about combo's, stuff that comes on the sandwich, stuff that doesn't, all sorts of [censored] and then pays with change. Well I am normally quite patient and understanding but things came unglued for me. My wife and I loudly stated we would go use the drive through and I rambled as we walked out. I ensured our situation was understood. [censored] the lady behind us took our cue and used the drive through as well. When we were ordering I rambled on a bit loudly for the attendant and it appeared he shared our sentiment. The lady was still there paying/arguing her case as we drove off.

Its not rocket surgery, if you don't have the cognitive capacity to order a [censored] sandwich from the [censored] coffee shop then you need help and that is not my problem. I feel bad my kids had to overhear a bit of this but I used it as a teaching lesson for them.

 

[BrianF]

Oh yes, the teaching point I used was this; We have problems, so do other people. But their problems are not ours, nor should they be. We look after ourselves and make sure we have our [censored] together. Plain and simple. If you don't have what it takes to order a sandwich, then get out the way.

I am laughing as I write this but I can feel my blood pressure on the rise.

 

[dlundblad]

Originally Posted By: Oldtom
One of my special snowflake tenants sent an email that there was "toxic mold" in her frig and threatened to call the EPA because " you are poisoning my children" I found a little mold on the door gasket and cleaned it off with bleach. Snowflake belligerently asked what to do if the mold comes back? I told her to clean it with bleach. I just finished evicting her for non payment of rent, just before Christmas and with her small kids. Guess snowflakes do not have to honor legal contracts.

Owning Class C and D rentals will destroy your faith in humanity along with any remaining sanity you might have


It's sad she is this dumb for her kid's sake. Probably has her kids convinced YOU wronged her too..

 

[demarpaint]

Yesterday I was extremely fascinated by the stupidity and inconsiderate people at a self serve gas station. It's typical but not surprising, which is why I usually gas up during off peak hours. Rather than get totally [censored] off I watched until I had enough and exited. I ended up buying gas down the road. I also walked into the post office, and made a rapid exit, the gas station episode was enough for the day. I didn't need to witness another display of stupidity.

 

[Mr Nice]

I do my shopping at 7:30 AM on the weekend to avoid long lines and idiots.

 

[aquariuscsm]

 

[Virtus_Probi]

Originally Posted By: KD0AXS
The ones that annoy me are the ones at the gas station that pull out their lottery folder when I'm just trying to pay for my gas and be on my way. It's not enough that they just bought half the store and the cashier had to take 5 minutes explaining that 2 for $4 doesn't mean 1 for $2. Now they want 876 scratch-offs, 32 Powerballs, and 27 Mega Millions. Then they proceed to scratch their scratch-offs at the counter.

Then there was the guy in front of me a couple weeks ago who felt it was necessary to hold up the line and argue with the manager because he couldn't buy cigarettes with EBT.

I just wanted to buy lunch at a downtown convenience store last week and got in line behind a lady who must have had a dozen different lottery ticket folders, probably redeeming for a bunch of her friends...had to do each one separately and squirrel away the $2 or whatever she'd get from each bundle of 20 or so tickets before fishing the next one out. The manager told her, "LONG line behind you" and the woman just waved her off. They finally got somebody who was stocking shelves to open another register and I thanked her loudly and profusely as the next customer in line, making sure Ms. Queen Of The Lotto heard me.

I could tell the employees hated this lady, too, but she probably brings them quite a bit of money if she is buying all those tickets there.

My wife and I made the mistake of going to Target last Saturday afternoon (forgetting about Xmas shopping) and got in line behind a lady who had about 100 items of clothing tucked under a couple of big items in her basket. They have 2 registers per line at this place and the next one down finally opened and the cashier pointed at us and said he would take us, but of course some nasty cow rushed over from an adjacent line and pushed right in front of us. We ended up finishing up just about when she did and I had a little fun in really slamming her cart good when she tried to push in front of us again to get to the doors...told her she shouldn't have been there in the first place!

 

[grampi]

Why shop at a Dollar Store?

 

[Virtus_Probi]

Originally Posted By: grampi
Why shop at a Dollar Store?


A dollar store just opened near my ski condo and I absolutely love the place.
We used to have to drive 20-25 minutes to a crowded Walmart to buy basics, this new place is less than ten minutes away and has most of the things we need (no fresh meat or produce, though). It's on the way to our place from the highway and I'm sure we will stop there for milk almost every trip. I spent about $100 there a couple weekends ago to fill our nearly empty larder with all kinds of non-perishable food and even replace things like a phone charger that went kaput. Their cheapo fleece clothes are fine for wearing around the condo when it's cold and even for sleeping when I'm up there by myself and keep the heat around 50F.

A dollar store in the right place is a gift from the heavens!

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: dlundblad
Originally Posted By: Oldtom
One of my special snowflake tenants sent an email that there was "toxic mold" in her frig and threatened to call the EPA because " you are poisoning my children" I found a little mold on the door gasket and cleaned it off with bleach. Snowflake belligerently asked what to do if the mold comes back? I told her to clean it with bleach. I just finished evicting her for non payment of rent, just before Christmas and with her small kids. Guess snowflakes do not have to honor legal contracts.

Owning Class C and D rentals will destroy your faith in humanity along with any remaining sanity you might have


It's sad she is this dumb for her kid's sake. Probably has her kids convinced YOU wronged her too..

Maryland is a very Pro-tenant state.
Imagine what OldTom had to go trough to get her out.
She had all the time in the world and a system geared towards her to help her, yet she still didn't make it right....
I hope the extra money she saved are worth the eviction on her record!

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: Oldtom
I felt bad for the tenants little kids who surely do not understand why they are "moving" at Christmas. My parents were solid, working class people and we never had to wonder where we would be living. The work ethic my parents gave me has paid off ten thousand fold.

Why? She has access to every help government or non-profit agency.
And I could bet those kids have it way better than you at their age....

My school in a far-far-away land had no current water and imagine going to the "private" in the winter.....

 

[gfh77665]

I don't mean to "one up" everyone here, but I think my shopping story wins the prize.

A day or two before Christmas, about 15 years ago we "had" to meet our in-laws at a WalMart is a bad part of East Houston (Why? Thats another story for another time). In this particular Walmart, probably 50% of the customers do not speak English, those that do are likely on Welfare, and petty crime is high. Begrudgingly, we got in a line maybe 20 deep, since there was only 2 or 3 registers open for the whole store open at 10 PM.

After almost a whole hour of excruciatingly slow progress, we neared the register, maybe 5 back. We had noticed an eccentric looking woman ahead of us. She was dressed like she just left Woodstock, stuck in the 1960's. It LOOKED like the items in her basket would check out quickly though, coats, a blanket, etc. We were just close enough to see her unload. The large items came out first, but below them she had close to 100 tiny objects, decorations and such that have to be rang up individually. Sigh.

Now comes the good part. After taking FOREVER to ring all the tiny things up, her bill was totaled, and she wanted to pay cash. She slung a heavy large purse off her shoulder and DUMPED a large mound of loose nickles, dimes, and mostly pennies on the check out lane, some which fell to the floor and rolled around among everyone's feet, and some jammed the moving belt. An audible groan went up from everyone in line.

 

[Variant_S]

Two checkout line gripes that I have:

- Folks who won't get off the phone during the checkout process, then yell at the clerk because the clerk wasn't weren't clairvoyant.

- Folks who are in line with a few items in the cart, then have others in their party join them as the line inches forward and fill up the cart.

 

[andrewg]

I try to not let checkout morons bug me too much. Five more minutes of my time isn't going to kill me. If I'm in a big rush, that's my problem. I can always walk away if it gets to be too irritating. The stress those cashiers must sometimes go through day after day is the true nightmare. I always try to make sure they know that I am not pressuring them.

 

[bigj_16]

Originally Posted By: andrewg
I try to not let checkout morons bug me too much. Five more minutes of my time isn't going to kill me. If I'm in a big rush, that's my problem. I can always walk away if it gets to be too irritating. The stress those cashiers must sometimes go through day after day is the true nightmare. I always try to make sure they know that I am not pressuring them.

Ditto.

 

[mightymousetech]

Originally Posted By: gfh77665
I don't mean to "one up" everyone here, but I think my shopping story wins the prize.

A day or two before Christmas, about 15 years ago we "had" to meet our in-laws at a WalMart is a bad part of East Houston (Why? Thats another story for another time). In this particular Walmart, probably 50% of the customers do not speak English, those that do are likely on Welfare, and petty crime is high. Begrudgingly, we got in a line maybe 20 deep, since there was only 2 or 3 registers open for the whole store open at 10 PM.

After almost a whole hour of excruciatingly slow progress, we neared the register, maybe 5 back. We had noticed an eccentric looking woman ahead of us. She was dressed like she just left Woodstock, stuck in the 1960's. It LOOKED like the items in her basket would check out quickly though, coats, a blanket, etc. We were just close enough to see her unload. The large items came out first, but below them she had close to 100 tiny objects, decorations and such that have to be rang up individually. Sigh.

Now comes the good part. After taking FOREVER to ring all the tiny things up, her bill was totaled, and she wanted to pay cash. She slung a heavy large purse off her shoulder and DUMPED a large mound of loose nickles, dimes, and mostly pennies on the check out lane, some which fell to the floor and rolled around among everyone's feet, and some jammed the moving belt. An audible groan went up from everyone in line.


LOL