Comments on: the “check” out line — scenario #1 http://aloony.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/the-check-out-line-scenario-1/ curmudgeon is merely a euphemism for grouch Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:13:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: aloony http://aloony.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/the-check-out-line-scenario-1/#comment-7 aloony Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:09:15 +0000 http://aloony.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/the-check-out-line-scenario-1/#comment-7 Hmm. Either I don't run into the clamshell purse crowd or it's so rare they don't leave an impression. Hmm. Either I don’t run into the clamshell purse crowd or it’s so rare they don’t leave an impression.

]]> By: thedarwinexception http://aloony.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/the-check-out-line-scenario-1/#comment-6 thedarwinexception Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:40:19 +0000 http://aloony.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/the-check-out-line-scenario-1/#comment-6 Well, at least you get people who write checks. I think I would prefer that to the ones I get behind - the "exact changers". They, as you say, are always taken by surprise that they have to actually *pay* for their purchases at the end of shopping, and when the cashier says "That will be $40.63", they look around like the thought of actually tendering money hadn't occured to them before this very moment. Then they reach into their purses or wallets to pull out bills, and they spend 5 minutes counting out $40 worth of ones, rubbing each one between their fingers 10 times, just to make sure two bills don't stick together. But the next part - the change, well, that's the worse part. Every person I get behind has one of those clamshell purses - you know the ones, and the shoppers have to pucker them open to count out exactly 63 cents worth of pennies. Half the time I want to throw them a buck and say "Here you go - now you'll get *more* change - go to some other store and torment someome else with my regards." I hate those people. Well, I hate most people - but I hate these people a lot. Kim Well, at least you get people who write checks. I think I would prefer that to the ones I get behind – the “exact changers”. They, as you say, are always taken by surprise that they have to actually *pay* for their purchases at the end of shopping, and when the cashier says “That will be $40.63″, they look around like the thought of actually tendering money hadn’t occured to them before this very moment. Then they reach into their purses or wallets to pull out bills, and they spend 5 minutes counting out $40 worth of ones, rubbing each one between their fingers 10 times, just to make sure two bills don’t stick together.

But the next part – the change, well, that’s the worse part. Every person I get behind has one of those clamshell purses – you know the ones, and the shoppers have to pucker them open to count out exactly 63 cents worth of pennies.

Half the time I want to throw them a buck and say “Here you go – now you’ll get *more* change – go to some other store and torment someome else with my regards.”

I hate those people. Well, I hate most people – but I hate these people a lot.

Kim

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