Check out comments!

[Teresa]

I HATE when the check out person at the grocery store has to comment on the things that you purchase! I'm not there to chit chat about my groceries, I just wanna get out of there.

AM I being unreasonable? {dizzy}

[jamesglewisf]

Yeah, my bride was picking up a prescription for fever blister medicine, and the idiot checker said, "Did you know that fever blisters are caused by the type 1 herpes virus?"

Keep your mouth shut you idiot!

[CuriousG]

Last week, the bagger was commenting on all the items I was buying, he finally asked, "what are you going to make with all that?" I said, "Dinner." and left. I wasn't in the mood for nosy banter at the time.

[Justawoman]

The only banter going on at the checkout with me are comments on how my parents are doing, the checkers wanting hugs from our youngest, the teen checkers wanting to know if our 17 year old is working, etc...... Small town and everyone knows everyone plus their dog.

[mec]

Don't knock it. I learned all about Jesus Christ from fairly hyperactive grocery checker who would have been bouncing off the walls if he hadn't been in one of those check station thingies.

[Noseypoo]

Amazing what you can learn at the check-out, from herbal remedies for various diseases to world-economics ... it's a hoot ... I love it!http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/lachen/lachtot.gif

[clarebear]

I'm usually stuck behind the cashier who is talking to a girl checking out. I want to get out of there and they keep talking and talking. It holds up the whole line.


{{{ Teresa }}}

Sorry couldn't resist. :D

[mec]

In Texas and probably elsewhere, the government has taken steps to assure that the CHILDREN are protected from buying cigarrettes. This has had two major effects:
1. The creation of a money making industry for young go getters who buy cigarrettes and then scalp them to their underage friends, and;
2. Cigarettes being locked away out of reach so that checkers must walk away from their work station to get them.

The strategy is to look carefully at the check out line and see if there is anybody who looks like they are going to say " Ah nades me four pickages uv Marboro lats wun hundreds cigs-a-rayettes"
If it works, good. If not, your're in line for quite a while

[ellen30]

I don't think you are being unreasonable. I don't like people to comment about what I'm getting and I usually don't have that problem. It's usually "How are you" and "Do you have your Food Lion card with you today?". I have more problems with other customers in the store. One I was in the store and one of the patrons from my workplace came in and tried to talk. Now I had a real bad headache and we are talking about the loudest woman in the county. It was all I could do not to say "Get the heck away from me." The other thing that gets me is when the person behind you practically latches themselves onto your butt like it will make the line go faster. I feel like I'm being pushed out of the line and it's like "let me get my change back in my pocketbook people!". I always want to turn around and stomp on their toes or something.

[kezzer]

Ha ha! Being on the other side of the checkout line here's my 2 cents! ;)
I have actually had some quite interesting conversations with customers, usually started by the customers.
I'm not big on talking to customers about their purchases, as I wouldn't want my checker to comment on mine, I also don't usually initiate conversation other than how are you today, etc. But it is amazing the different personalities you will meet in a grocery store, not all pleasant of course.

[JacMac]

One day I was at the Customer Service paying one of my utilities bills and these 3 older women (I'd guess 70+) were standing there all gabbing to each other. The poor younger girl working the counter was having problems with the western union machine being down and not being able to get my payment through it and all of a sudden these women just became nasty! They started saying things like "well I don't know how much longer she's going to take", and "I've been standing here forever..." and it was like all three of them just attacked at the same time. I was in a REALLY bad mood already and watching that poor girl grit her teeth and try to explain that the machine was broken and she was doing all she could...I wanted to turn to them and say - "with attitudes like that, you're lucky ANYbody is willing to wait on you! So shut up and appreciate it!". I live in a total retirement/tourist community so I'm used to these elderly people treating us like dirt and expecting perfect service - they don't realize without us they'd be bagging their own groceries and getting their own cigarettes and scratch tickets....I can't stand disrespectful people!

Oh...and there was the time that I was so poor I was scrounging change to go buy a can of soup to make dinner and the girl at the checkout says "well I guess I won't need quarters the rest of the night" - I should've paid with pennies...

[Noseypoo]

my utilities bills and these 3 older women (I'd guess 70+) were standing there all gabbing to each other.
{yikes} ;)

[JacMac]

awww...noseypoo....I've missed those smilies! {look}

hey...you put a new green dude in the welcome forum was it? He was laughing and smacking the table....What a hoot that one was huh? {owl}
Where'd you get him?