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

I thought it was just me.

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!

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. 

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

lol There's a whole group for that: http://www.answermug.com/group/pet-peeves

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!