Saw this just a while ago at my local drugstore:
VRW: Very Rude Woman, the customer ahead of me
HC: Hapless Cashier
VRW plunks her assorted crap down and watches HC like a hawk as he scans each item. A bag of chocolates scans at 2 for $4 and this prompts her to ask him, "Do you have the coupon for this here?" Call me crazy, but I always thought it was the customer who brought in the coupons...clearly times have changed!
HC explains to her that there is no coupon for this and continues ringing up her purchase. While he's doing this, she's already run her debit card through the machine and, so she thinks, completed her end of this difficult transaction. Except that this is one of those stores where you have to wait for the cashier to finish before you can slide your card, etc. So he asks her, "Debit or credit?" and she responds, "<pained sigh> I've already done that." Aye chihuahua, we have a winner here!! Two for two in the Rude Olympics!!
Finally, after insisting several times - with several un-clever, snarky comments - that there is a coupon, HC produces the latest mailer and asks VRW to point the coupon out for him so that he can scan it. Well, wouldn't you know...it's a rebate offer. Not a coupon. Even has the word "rebate" in bold letters at the top and bottom of the thing. Fancy that.
Naturally, VRW is unhappy about this, huffs a bit more, makes a few more rude comments to HC, then stalks out with her bag o' crap without so much as a "thank you."
Now, was a bag of Hershey Kisses, a soap-opera magazine, a pair of day-glo pink camo boxer shorts emblazoned with "Massive Flirt" and assorted makeup detritus worth all that?
VRW: Very Rude Woman, the customer ahead of me
HC: Hapless Cashier
VRW plunks her assorted crap down and watches HC like a hawk as he scans each item. A bag of chocolates scans at 2 for $4 and this prompts her to ask him, "Do you have the coupon for this here?" Call me crazy, but I always thought it was the customer who brought in the coupons...clearly times have changed!
HC explains to her that there is no coupon for this and continues ringing up her purchase. While he's doing this, she's already run her debit card through the machine and, so she thinks, completed her end of this difficult transaction. Except that this is one of those stores where you have to wait for the cashier to finish before you can slide your card, etc. So he asks her, "Debit or credit?" and she responds, "<pained sigh> I've already done that." Aye chihuahua, we have a winner here!! Two for two in the Rude Olympics!!
Finally, after insisting several times - with several un-clever, snarky comments - that there is a coupon, HC produces the latest mailer and asks VRW to point the coupon out for him so that he can scan it. Well, wouldn't you know...it's a rebate offer. Not a coupon. Even has the word "rebate" in bold letters at the top and bottom of the thing. Fancy that.
Naturally, VRW is unhappy about this, huffs a bit more, makes a few more rude comments to HC, then stalks out with her bag o' crap without so much as a "thank you."
Now, was a bag of Hershey Kisses, a soap-opera magazine, a pair of day-glo pink camo boxer shorts emblazoned with "Massive Flirt" and assorted makeup detritus worth all that?
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