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JA .. I think we need a new category ...

 I'm suggesting the Rant Line ... And as an example, and possibly the first entry, I humbly offer my rant.
You are in a line at a shop... The person in front is waiting, merchandise in hand possibly ... They arrive at the counter to be served, the attendant sorts and totals and says that will be X dollars.
Then, and only then does the customer start digging in their bag for their money!
This pees me off no end ... Why the bleeding hell can't they use the time spent waiting to be prepared?
End of Rant ... You can all move on now.

Posted - November 1, 2016

Responses


  • I thought it was just me.
      November 1, 2016 5:11 PM MDT
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  • Nope...
      November 1, 2016 5:36 PM MDT
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  • Good luck with that, it'll never happen. I carry a bag too but my card is ready in my back pocket when the checkout girl tells me the price. In/Out, wham bam, thank you ma'am and I am away!
      November 1, 2016 5:14 PM MDT
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  • Same here ... So bloody annoying
      November 1, 2016 5:35 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I don't let anyone tick me off. I bring a book.  I know it is going to happen, see?  I can do nothing. I have made comments to people who piss me off in line for reasons way worse than that one.

    Sometimes the book doesn't work.

    I was in Goodwill one day and this woman was in front of me asking the cashier (some girl that could offer little assistance because NO one could) what she thought of what she was buying and should she buy what she picked or should she look for something else?  This went on for 15 minutes at LEAST and the idiot behind the register is chatting with her about this.  The woman was obviously demented. She looked homeless.   Instead of escorting her away from the LINE that was building by the minute, she just kept going around and around with this crazed woman so she would not offend her.

    ????
    I finally lost it.   I asked her why she felt she had to take up the entire store's time with this when she was a cashier.  She is not supposed to be kabbitzing about some crap someone is buying.  Pay for it and move on already.

    It didn't help one iota.  I just felt bad and left. 
      November 1, 2016 6:01 PM MDT
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  • 23570
    Waiting in a checkout line is something that never has bothered me. To me, my time is not THAT horrendously important and valid in relationship to the time of others. A few extra moments for someone to get money and for me to wait? Eh.
    :)


     I actually still use checks.
    But I know what store I'm at when I pull into the parking lot of the store. Before I enter the store, I fill out everything on the check except the price (I have carbon copies for my checkbook -- only way for me to successfully keep it balanced).
    As soon as I'm told the total, I then just scribble in the price at checkout. I'm just as fast as most of the people using debit/credit/whatever cards.
    :) This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at November 1, 2016 6:16 PM MDT
      November 1, 2016 6:15 PM MDT
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  • 23570
    Hi, again, Ozgirl 256,
    As I reread my answer, it comes across a bit snooty maybe.
    :)
    I didn't mean it that way. (And I apologize too much, so this quasi-apology is probably unnecessary, too, ha!)

    Anyway, my main point was that waiting in checkout lines never has bothered me for whatever reasons.. But, on the other hand, I realize other people in line may be in a rush, so I try to do everything I can to be quick.
    :) This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at November 2, 2016 10:06 AM MDT
      November 2, 2016 9:44 AM MDT
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  • 23570
    Hey, thanks, WingedWonder! Your words have empowered me a bit at the moment.
    :)
    I may apologize too much (as I refer to in other comments here and around the site) but my motives are sincere. and more and more I'm finding my apologies are needed less and less.

    Who wants to be around someone saying "I'm sorry" a bit too often?
    :)
    Well, wait a second!! I take that back! --  I am a GRAND person to be around, no matter what words I spew forth! Ha!

    Be Well!
    WelbyQ
      November 5, 2016 8:34 AM MDT
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  • Dear Welby... I'm confused .. I fear this quasi- apology may lead to another apology from you for apologising too much ... I think you can see where I'm going here ... Down that particular road lies madness, not to mention a lot of typing me thinks.
    May I assure you your quasi apology has been quasily accepted .. as WW has already said, but not quite in these words, manners maketh the man!
    Your most humble servant
    Ozgirl ...
      November 2, 2016 2:47 PM MDT
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  • 23570
    Yeah, you're right, Ozgirl 256 - - I have walked /driven down that road to madness too often. 
    ;)
    I really appreciate your reply.
    Be Well,
     WelbyQ
      November 5, 2016 8:25 AM MDT
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  • 46117
      November 3, 2016 11:30 AM MDT
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  • 23570
    :)
    Hi, there, Sharonna!
    Funny, I've never seen this show "live" - - I don't really enjoy the genre of musicals that much. and I only saw this movie once. I remember how dark and serious it was and remember how sad it struck me. I guess I had based my impression on this song- - the song I relate most to the show/movie and the song always seemed lightweight to me. If I studied it, I bet the song itself is not lightweight. i do like how these two perform it!
    :)

    I'll stop apologizing at some point in my life.

    Be Well,
       WelbyQ
    :)
      November 5, 2016 8:30 AM MDT
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  • 7939
    lol There's a whole group for that: http://www.answermug.com/group/pet-peeves
      November 1, 2016 10:54 PM MDT
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  • Thanks JA ... I'll put on my Dora the explorer hat :)
      November 2, 2016 6:10 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    Interested to read Welby still uses checks - or cheques as they are spelt in the UK where very few if any shops and filling-stations will accept them. It's cash, or credit or debit card.

    Cards still causes some delay, worsened by lottery-ticket counter sales, but the most frustrating queues are in garages with sizeable convenience-shops. There you are either in a long queue when you want only to pay for a tank of fuel and be on your way, or you are sitting in your car having to wait while the previous customer is too busy shopping as well and has left the vehicle at the only pump not already with three or four cars after it.

    It's worse now that large fuel taxes and the crushing power of the supermarkets have run hundreds of filling-stations out of business - the retail profit-margin on road vehicle fuel in Britain is very small - and some supermarkets, notable Tesco, have taken over some of the survivors and opened convenience-shops on the premises. Result? Far less availability and choice; with larger distances, sometimes in detours formerly needless from one's normal commuting or social routes, to drive to them. Also, longer journeys at night are rather more fraught - away from the motorways you can easily find yourself hoping for a garage within the next 50 or 100 miles and still open in mid-evening. (M-way services average about 30 miles apart.)

    The UK banks tried to render cheques obsolete a few years ago, for their own administrative convenience, not to help the customer (perish the thought that customer comes first); but were unable to think of a suitable alternative!
      November 3, 2016 11:25 AM MDT
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  • 23570
    Hi, Durdle, yeah, I see checks soon to be outlawed where I live in the near future. Everything must be electronic, cards here, cards there, and digital it seems.
    I even know of someone who went to a bank for cash and the bank told the person they no longer dealt in cash. Geez.

    :)
      November 5, 2016 5:47 PM MDT
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