Women at the checkout!!!!!

[Poolegan]

A woman ahead of me had two items to pay for. Checkout guy rings her two items through, gives her the total, then and only then does she start to rummage through a monster sized hand bag to retrieve her purse. Takes an age to plug in the card and then struggles to input the pin.

What's the problem? You are buying stuff. You have to pay for it. While you are waiting to be served get your bl00dy money/card ready. Don't act so surprised when told what you have to pay.

To cap it all she then started to wander off without her purchases.

[Stu GTV]

Apart from the last bit, I've been behind exactly the same women......or the one's who have to pay in small coins and count them out one at a time......doh...

[Joss]

Originally Posted by Stu GTV

Apart from the last bit, I've been behind exactly the same women......or the one's who have to pay in small coins and count them out one at a time......doh...

I think you've confused women with old people there mate

[papajam]

Reminds me of mamajam. It takes a couple of hours for her to get ready to drive the mile to the Post Office. Only after the car is parked, turned off and I'm unbuckled and out of the car does the process of putting her shoes back on begin.

[divadiva]

Really annoying is people who tell he checkout person their life story. I did once say to a woman 'Okay....in your own time'

[biggreenzebra]

What about the variation where having spent minutes searching for purse card etc the sales assistant and the customer then engage in an animated conversation about who knows what while you stand patiently (except on the inside you are anything but patient). Then when the conversation has finished the sales assistant greets your arrival at the till with "sorry to keep you waiting". Like hell they are!

[Gibbo]

Why don't you all go shopping when you have more time.
Then other people will annoy you less

[MrShusky]

I have been known to say (loudly)
"can you get a move on please as the sell by date on my items is fast approaching"
when in such a holdup!

Either Shusky or the queue, sometimes both, disappear quite rapidly for some strange reason

[Keithy]

Loudly pass wind - always used to work for Mrs Pat's father in law. He used to around Morrisons like a mole on a motorbike.

Originally Posted by Gibbo

Why don't you all go shopping when you have more time.
Then other people will annoy you less

People I know sneer when I go shopping at lunchtime
on a Saturday or Sunday morning.

"Why are you wasting your weekend? "


The place is dead. All done in less than 10 minutes.

Why would people want to spend longer than 10 minutes in a shop?

[techwork]

Online shopping solves this...also stops unplanned, bill-increasing purchases.

[divadiva]

Originally Posted by techwork

Online shopping solves this...also stops unplanned, bill-increasing purchases.

I like to select my own food....especially fruit/veg and meat!

Originally Posted by MrShusky

I have been known to say (loudly)
"can you get a move on please as the sell by date on my items is fast approaching"
when in such a holdup!

Either Shusky or the queue, sometimes both, disappear quite rapidly for some strange reason

I like this one

Customers and shop staff can often be as bad as each other......sometimes both parties seem completely oblivious to the queue forming beside them

[LadyBug]

I think people who are old, fat, infirm, surrounded by children, bored or all of the above, should be banned from any supermarket between the hours of 1200 and 1400 on a weekday.

I sometimes run in to the Asda near work on my lunch hour to get a couple of things only to run into a pair of old biddies with no spatial awareness who have to stop dead in front of me, park their trollies alongside each other in the middle of the aisle and say things like "ooh Brenda, the yogurts are buy one get one free"....

Then I'll be tripped up by a small person with a bogey on their finger, while mum mildy says "Lotus-Flower Opium-Tree, come out of the nice lady's way, poppet!"

Finally I'll be held up at the checkout by the coupon counters, penny payers and price disputers.

To top it off, I'll then not be able to get out of the car park thanks to birds in Peugeots who have to do a 9879879485754 point turn to get out of their space