So, I went to the grocery store this afternoon.
I know it was my fault that I went at 5:30 PM.
No one should go to the store then unless they're 24 years old and grabbing a six-pack and pre-cooked meal on their way home from work or on their way to Happy Hour.
I know that.
Still, I needed lemons.
NEEDED. lemons.
It doesn't matter WHAT I cook, DH needs to squeeze lemon juice on it.
He's Greek.
Do I need to explain further?
Anyway, I picked up my lemons and what-the-heck a bag of cat food since I was already there.
Now, you know most large chain grocery stores have spent a lot of money hiring people who are experts in consumer traffic flow and setting up multiple check-out lanes to accommodate most everyone.
There's your regular lanes, the wheelchair lanes, the NO CANDY lanes, the no coupon lanes, the express lanes.... You get the point.
Now, many express lanes are further split up into "less than 20", "cash only", "10 or fewer", and for those really in a rush - "7 or fewer".
Now, I consider myself pretty good at math. Especially simple math tasks like adding.
So, I look at my lemons and my cat food and go into the "10 or fewer" lane. Bear with me, it was shorter than the "7 or fewer" lane.
The woman in front of me had at least 14 items. Yes, I counted. And I know she can read, because as I was subtly shooting her darts with my eyes, she reached past me and picked up a Time Magazine.
That made 15.
One would hope that one who can read Time magazine can also count.
QLF is wrong with some people?
I know it wouldn't be very customer-friendly, but I wish they would station one of their "Helping Hands" guys at the bagging station with a wooden ruler and have them wrap the knuckles of the people who think their rush is more important than my rush.
Hope you enjoyed your day.
10 comments:
Ugh! Wooden-ruler guy needs to BEAT the knuckles of all those lame-o's on their cell phones, especially when they're in front of me in line! It sloooooowsss them down.
I h*te them.
Did you tap your foot the whole time you were in line to indicate your displeasure?? I also find it is helfpul to look at her (with disgust), then look at her items, then look at the sign, and then look at her again, and then finally, yell, "smelly whore!" (Works every time.)
However, I'm always scared when I go to those lines - do the lemons count as ONE item, or are they each an item? Tis a dilemma!
The next time, just randomly grab items out of her cart. Better yet, i'd go with Michel on the name-calling. Yeah, definately.
ugh ...
they should just label the lanes "NORMAL PEOPLE" and "THE WORLD REVOLVES ME" ... I am sure these are the same people who park RIGHT BY THE DOOR and not in a space and who BLOCK the exits so the people who do park in the spaces cant even get in and out of the store
Do multiples of the same item count as one item or count individually? I figure that if they need to be scanned separately, then my 9 cans of cat food or my 6 containers of yogurt count as 9 or 6, whereas one bag of multiple lemons only count as one item since they're only scanned once.
Also, when I'm line at the store, even if I have all my items on a belt, regardless of the lane I'm in, if the cashier isn't ringing me up yet and someone gets in line behind me with 1 or 2 items only (say, a bag of lemons and a bag of cat food...), I *always* offer to let them go ahead of me. I figure it is just good karma.
These are situations in which it is nice to have a small child with one while stuck in line behind an egregious over-the-limiter.... One can say, sweetly but in a clear, loud voice, "Say, sweetie, can you see the sign there? It says SEVEN ITEMS OR LESS. Why don't we count OUR items? How many do WE have? Well, THAT is less than seven, isn't it? Look at that! We did a GREAT job following the SIGN......." Mwah ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa.
I am totally in lurv with self checkout. I hate people. I love me some robots.
I love/hate the self checkout. I love to scan my one item and get the hell out, I hate that they let every drooling fool use it too.
I have totally thought about this!! Wouldn't be awesome if after 10 items the machine zapped them, or the cashier just stopped at 10 and gave the total? And as they are all "but I have more" the cashier cuts them off and says the total again. I almost want to run to my local grocer and apply for the job just so I can do this!!
3 lemons were in one bag and were sold as 3 for $1.99, so I think they count as 1 item.
I love the idea that the machine zaps them or automatically totals their order after 10 items - much better than the ruler.
I do love self checkouts, except when they make a cashier come over and check on you - what's the point?
Self checkouts rock. I have been known to have one or two more than the limit in the quick line though.
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