I’d Pay Him to Get the Checkout Lines to Move Faster
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Would not help. The biggest delay at checkouts is an elderly person at a self-checkout who doesn’t have a clue about how to use the self checkout. You can’t really complain much about that other than to try and help.
On the other hand, what infuriates me is the person, typically a woman, who keeps her checkbook in her purse in a long regular checkout line until she gets the final tally and only then takes the checkbook out and starts to write the check. What part of “they expect you to pay” is hard to understand? And then having finally written the check and completing the checkout then insists upon putting everything right back in the same place in her purse, channeling her OCD before she moves out of the checkout line. What would it cost her to move two steps forward out of the checkout line while she buttons everything up and allow everybody to start moving again? I know. I know. Have a little patience but to put it in the context I used to often confess that I prayed for patience. So to avoid the problem, I just use Amazon and order it delivered to avoid the near occasion of sin.
Lead,
You beat me to it…
“On the other hand, what infuriates me is the person, typically a woman, who keeps her checkbook in her purse in a long regular checkout line until she gets the…..”
But you’re too kind, there’s almost always a purse involved. Don’t find it infuriating. Find it humorous and vive la différence
….what about the person who looks for the UPC code, finds it, puts the item down, picks it back up, looks at it again then runs it through the eye.
…it’s as if they are worried that the UPC jumped off the package….🙄
My answer to the drill sergeant; I LOVE the Virgin Mary, sir yes sir!