Well I guess i'll pay with exact change

[mattm04]

So today I am waiting in line at the Self Scan at my local supermarket with a small hand basked of items. Their were three lanes open. One was a lady with a cart full of times the other two were small orders. I am waiting behind one who is just finished paying. The SC near is waiting in the next lane. The custoemr in my lane finishes when the SC tries to sneak in front of me. If the SC had not stopped an I had not moved she would have physically made contact with me. I keep my place in line and go next. The SC is mumbling under her breath about the "rude" people in the store and now she is soooooo important.

Well I can play "dumb" and take my sweet time with the Self Scan. I scan my items at a normal speed but when it comes time to pay I remember I have a ton of change in my pocket, almost $2 mostly in dimes and smaller. I feed it coin by coin until I run out. By now the SC is loudly mumbling "why don't people know who the f**k I am??? dammit! I don't care about no f**kin line." I finish and before I can get my receipt the SC literally gets withing a inch of me and throws her purse down looking for her store card. I grab my receipt and bag up my items.

As I am leaving i look over and see the SC scanning an items and instead of putting it on the belt throwing it down to the end, which of course voids it and makes you scan it again. I watch for a minute and all of sudden a roll of TP is throws against the front wall and the SC storms off swearing.

[Aethian]

HA HA...idjit. I guess the machine didn't know who she was.

[csquared]

HA HA...idjit. I guess the machine didn't know who she was.

Or maybe it did?

[candyshopgirl]

I always say don't worry these kinds of people get what they deserve one day.This story reminded me of the other day a old man comes in and screams TOOTHPASTE!!!!one eleventy!!!!!!!!!!
I calmly say no I'm candyshopgirl, hello how are you? The man gave me a cat butt face and walked out. He must have not known WHO I AM!!!!!!

[tigger222]

What does "one eleventy" mean?

[PepperElf]

!!!!!!111!!!!! basically.

but the SC can't be THAT important. if she was then she'd have servants or her personal staff doing her groceries for her

[candyshopgirl]

What does "one eleventy" mean?

Basically just shows that the customer is crazy and is about to lose it

[WhiteRose]

or that they're so worked up they don't care about proper grammar, usage or mechanics...or logic...

i want a baked potato now...

as an aside, i don't like the self-scanner...i tried buying a lot of light stuff (by that i mean things like buttons and lace and other sewing notions) and it didn't register ANY of it so i had to keep 'skip bagging' and every once in a while a cashier had to approve it because you can only skip bagging a few times before it locks up...i don't know why...

[Kiwi]

I remember the first time I used a self checkout in London, the guy in front of me was ranting to a staff member about how it was broken and nothing would scan for him....

every single time he would try to scan something he was useless, didnt point the barcode towards the scanner, didnt stretch out crumpled packages, went to fast then to slow.... all the while ranting about how it was the scanners fault. When the staff member would scan anything it would go through first time, not trouble. That would set him off that it wasn't fair and how it wasnt his fault... really giving her a hard time about his own stupidity

He was still bagging his stuff up as I put my stuff though and started telling me that I might as well not even try as "that scanner is BROKEN" then watches with his jaw dropping as I scan my items through the first or second swipe and get through my checkout easily. (8 years of scanning in retail helps figure out checkouts I guess)

As I start bagging my stuff up I look at him and smile and say "next time you go through a regular checkout I hope you will appricate how difficult their job actually is"

he gives me a fish face... that really made my day

[crafty]

I use the self-scan in Boots, a chemists in the UK, and I have to admit I had difficulty the first few times - I had to remember to bag each time i scanned. Working in a store, I scan a few items, bag them, scan a few more etc, its quite different. And the stupid noises it makes - they awful squelch noise each time you press a button! Yuck! Customers are stupid but they aint so stupid that they need childish noises!