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Women at the checkout in Shops
murraymarmalade
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02-May-2012 14:37
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The cashier runs every item over the scanner, the women packs it and the total flashes up on the till. This always comes as a shock to the women that she actually has to pay for this.
The bag comes of the shoulder and she opens every compartment until she finds her purse. Then the whole thing starts again until she finds the card or cash.
The she finds some voucher that was printed in some newspaper that gives her 10p off a tin of beans and the cashier has to adjust the amount owed.
Then the whole process of putting the card in the purse and the purse in the bag resumes, carefully making sure each compartment is zipped up.
Next up a man comes up with a 20 or 50 note already in his hand, hands it over, puts change in his pocket and is away.
bp
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02-May-2012 14:49
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That's what they refer to themselves as multi-tasking
theface2010
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Originally posted by murraymarmalade:
The cashier runs every item over the scanner, the women packs it and the total flashes up on the till. This always comes as a shock to the women that she actually has to pay for this.
The bag comes of the shoulder and she opens every compartment until she finds her purse. Then the whole thing starts again until she finds the card or cash.
The she finds some voucher that was printed in some newspaper that gives her 10p off a tin of beans and the cashier has to adjust the amount owed.
Then the whole process of putting the card in the purse and the purse in the bag resumes, carefully making sure each compartment is zipped up.
Next up a man comes up with a 20 or 50 note already in his hand, hands it over, puts change in his pocket and is away.
Very good murray-this is a phenomenon that has vexed me lately. Another one that is really getting my goat of late is people getting extremely flustered counter staff to check 7 or 8 lotto tickets at 10 past 1 in one of the busiest Spars in Dublin-keeps happening to me. You wanna check your lotto tickets fine but have a bit of self-awareness and if there's a queue of 10 people behind you wanting to pay for their sandwiches then maybe leave it until another time.
murraymarmalade
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02-May-2012 15:25
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Most petrol stations here in the UK have mini supermarkets on site now. People come along and fill up then go to do a bit of shopping leaving the car at the pump. Meanwhile a queue of cars are trying to get into the filling station. Twas great fun during the petrol panic buying we had here a few weeks back.
bp
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02-May-2012 15:30
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...much more convenient to keep your petrol supply in billycans in the shed, as advised
carryharry
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02-May-2012 15:31
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Yep, a pet hate of mine.
The plonker who fills the tank, closes the filler cap while looking at 3 cars lined up behind. Locks the car, swans into the station and has a look through the sweets and then pulls out the visa and pays.
5 minutes later the fcuker comes out and pulls away without a care in the world. I never do it if there is a car behind me, just decent manners to move out of the way before you go into pay like.
flattythehurdler
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02-May-2012 15:33
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fceking students getting on the bus. Wait ten minutes for the damn thing, do the same journey every day and must know how much it costs, get on the bus and then start rooting around for their money while the queue builds up behind them. After Six or seven stops it becomes more and more annoying.
theface2010
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Originally posted by carryharry:
Yep, a pet hate of mine.The plonker who fills the tank, closes the filler cap while looking at 3 cars lined up behind. Locks the car, swans into the station and has a look through the sweets and then pulls out the visa and pays.5 minutes later the fcuker comes out and pulls away without a care in the world. I never do it if there is a car behind me, just decent manners to move out of the way before you go into pay like.
Hmmm harry I'm not so sure on this one tbh-obviously if they're going in doing the shopping they should move it but I once had a mild disagreement with a lad when I went up to pay at a window for petrol I just put in. It wasn't one of the bigger stations so there was no obvious parking places. I put in €40 worth and went up to the window to pay with cash. It probably took me 20 seconds to do this but when I came back a guy who was behind me started fcuking me out of it for not moving the car first. He was the only 1 waiting and I told where to go tbh-it would've taken me a lot longer to get back in, move the car a bit away and then come back to pay.
My view is if it's a busy stop you just have to wait until the transaction is complete-this obviously doesn't apply to the massive petrol stations with loads of car parking where lads are going in for a dump, a coffee and a burger in Supermacs.
Yojimbo
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Originally posted by murraymarmalade:
The cashier runs every item over the scanner, the women packs it and the total flashes up on the till. This always comes as a shock to the women that she actually has to pay for this.
The bag comes of the shoulder and she opens every compartment until she finds her purse. Then the whole thing starts again until she finds the card or cash.
The she finds some voucher that was printed in some newspaper that gives her 10p off a tin of beans and the cashier has to adjust the amount owed.
Then the whole process of putting the card in the purse and the purse in the bag resumes, carefully making sure each compartment is zipped up.
Next up a man comes up with a 20 or 50 note already in his hand, hands it over, puts change in his pocket and is away.
...you forgot,..then she remembers something she meant to buy, asks the cashier is it ok to go back and get it and add it to her purchase,.....yadda, yadda yadda!
rebelrebel30
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02-May-2012 17:15
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Originally posted by carryharry:
Yep, a pet hate of mine.The plonker who fills the tank, closes the filler cap while looking at 3 cars lined up behind. Locks the car, swans into the station and has a look through the sweets and then pulls out the visa and pays.5 minutes later the fcuker comes out and pulls away without a care in the world. I never do it if there is a car behind me, just decent manners to move out of the way before you go into pay like.
Pros can cons to that one harry. For example, near me theres a very busy petrol station, now grand you say pull away but this one has no space to park anywhere so if you were to do this here youd have to drive off and look for parking in the town when theres none and then walk back to pay..its more the fault of the petrol stations for having no laybys or not enough of them to be honest.
Blanco
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02-May-2012 17:49
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Originally posted by murraymarmalade:
The cashier runs every item over the scanner, the women packs it and the total flashes up on the till. This always comes as a shock to the women that she actually has to pay for this.
The bag comes of the shoulder and she opens every compartment until she finds her purse. Then the whole thing starts again until she finds the card or cash.
The she finds some voucher that was printed in some newspaper that gives her 10p off a tin of beans and the cashier has to adjust the amount owed.
Then the whole process of putting the card in the purse and the purse in the bag resumes, carefully making sure each compartment is zipped up.
Next up a man comes up with a 20 or 50 note already in his hand, hands it over, puts change in his pocket and is away.
There was thread on here a good while ago about pet hates , and just as you described was mine, it's as if they expected it was going to be free so there is no need to get payment ready
It drives me mental when I am stuck behind one of these , especially at the express checkout.
They also wait until every single item is scanned through and piled up before they begin to pack any of the the groceries, and then usually fiddle around for 5 mins looking for 2 or 3 cent so as they wont have to break any notes.
If ever one day you hear on the news of a man going berserk and shooting dead someone at a supermarket checkout , then don't be expecting to see any post from Blanco for 10 to 20 years or so, depending on good behavior.
cityoftribes
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Originally posted by Blanco:
If ever one day you hear on the news of a man going berserk and shooting dead someone at a supermarket checkout , then don't be expecting to see any post from Blanco for 10 to 20 years or so, depending on good behavior.
So after 10 or 20 years you'll just come back to life is it?
rebelrebel30
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Originally posted by Yojimbo:
...you forgot,..then she remembers something she meant to buy, asks the cashier is it ok to go back and get it and add it to her purchase,.....yadda, yadda yadda!
Ya a classic one jimbo followed by the one that comes back to the shop to exchange something she bought the other day and holds everyone up as she tries to explain what it is she actually wants to do......arhhhhhhhhhhh...this is particularly popular on Lidl and Aldi tills.........
An Carta Bui
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02-May-2012 18:23
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Funerals holdiong up traffic no matter how loud you blow the horn !!!! Terrible if you live near a cemetery.
Couldn't the just throw the corpse in the wheely bin until collection day
Anyone but FF
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One that wrecks my head is people who are too slow while using an ATM. They queue up, then when its there turn they have to fish around their pocket or bag for their card, then they insert the card and very slowly enter their pin, after that they have to decide how much they wanted to withdraw and stand there for what seems like an eternity as they decide do they want either E40 or E60. Machine spits out the money and they stand there for another age as they decide where to put the cash!
N16
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02-May-2012 19:00
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Originally posted by Anyone but FF:
One that wrecks my head is people who are too slow while using an ATM. They queue up, then when its there turn they have to fish around their pocket or bag for their card, then they insert the card and very slowly enter their pin, after that they have to decide how much they wanted to withdraw and stand there for what seems like an eternity as they decide do they want either E40 or E60. Machine spits out the money and they stand there for another age as they decide where to put the cash!
hate this too. They also insist on printing a receipt. I get very impatient in these situations.
yankeelad
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02-May-2012 19:11
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Originally posted by murraymarmalade:
The cashier runs every item over the scanner, the women packs it and the total flashes up on the till. This always comes as a shock to the women that she actually has to pay for this.
The bag comes of the shoulder and she opens every compartment until she finds her purse. Then the whole thing starts again until she finds the card or cash.
The she finds some voucher that was printed in some newspaper that gives her 10p off a tin of beans and the cashier has to adjust the amount owed.
Then the whole process of putting the card in the purse and the purse in the bag resumes, carefully making sure each compartment is zipped up.
Next up a man comes up with a 20 or 50 note already in his hand, hands it over, puts change in his pocket and is away.
Oh man is this infureating for it happens over and over and you described her down to a t.Then she walks away totally clueless of the agitation of the person on line right behind her.You have no idea of how many times I wish I could deliver her the full boot up the arse
nlgbbbblth
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02-May-2012 19:41
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ATM withdrawals shouldn't take more than 30 or 40 seconds at most.
A lot of the time I think I'm behind somebody who is using it for the first time.
Man with the Cap
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Or your there fully reared.... and she wants foreplay!!!!
I mean what's all that about????
yankeelad
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Originally posted by Man with the Cap:
Or your there fully reared.... and she wants foreplay!!!!I mean what's all that about????
That Doctor should never have allowed you to go home so soon
murraymarmalade
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Originally posted by yankeelad:
Oh man is this infureating for it happens over and over and you described her down to a t.Then she walks away totally clueless of the agitation of the person on line right behind her.You have no idea of how many times I wish I could deliver her the full boot up the arse
So its not just here they do it Yankee, its a global thing. I wonder do other women further back in the queue get as amnnoyed as we do or do they simply do it to wind us up.
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Was coming out of a small private car park attached to the doctors surgery the other day. Get to the exit and there's a car abandoned at the barrier. Wasn't in a big hurry but about 5 minutes later this guy arrives back to the car with his ticket and a lady from the pharmacy and they have an animated conversation, Eventually the barrier rises and he slowly moves off. Why the phucker couldn't have moved his car to one side where there was plenty of room is beyond me.
murraymarmalade
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When the guy that has left his car at the petrol pump eventually returns after his shopping trip he goes through another routine. There you are sitting behind him while he puts away his shopping, hands out the sweets he has bought to the children, puts on his seat belt, re programmes the sat nav and checks his mirrors and blind spots. I know he is meant to do all that but its a forecourt and he could simply move forward a few yards before this wind up routine begins.
theface2010
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Originally posted by Anyone but FF:
One that wrecks my head is people who are too slow while using an ATM. They queue up, then when its there turn they have to fish around their pocket or bag for their card, then they insert the card and very slowly enter their pin, after that they have to decide how much they wanted to withdraw and stand there for what seems like an eternity as they decide do they want either E40 or E60. Machine spits out the money and they stand there for another age as they decide where to put the cash!
Another good one-what the fcuk do people be at spending 3 or 4 minutes at a pass machine. You'd swear they were playing Tetris or something-boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop............
flattythehurdler
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Originally posted by Man with the Cap:
Or your there fully reared.... and she wants foreplay!!!!I mean what's all that about????
Well this is going to be hard to beat for post of the year 2012
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