Have you ever noticed?...

[Quickdraw]

- You can go nearly a whole shift without seeing a single WIC check, yet when you get into the last hour, your register becomes WIC check central? (Nothing against people who use them, the whole system in dealing with them is just a pain.)

- When you need to use the bathroom, you suddenly can't clear your lane so you can quickly go and do it? Every time you get through with the last customer, another one takes their place about a second before you can even flick your light off.

- Asian customers always seem to pay with credit? I don't want to sound racially insensitive...in fact, it doesn't even annoy me. I just think it's an interesting trend I still haven't figured out.

- You see a customer in the store, and pray to god he/she doesn't come to your lane...but sure enough, that customer seems to make a beeline for your lane moments later?

Just certain things I've noticed in my four years at my store...feel free to add your own observations.

[Aldous]

On the hottest day physically possible, the shake machine, and Icee machine will go down.

On a Sunday, there will be at least one Asian group, of at least 10 people, taking pictures, like BK is exotic or something (Might just be me, I don't know)

When the store is the busiest, the manager will disappear, until everyone is gone.

When the store is the busiest, the CC machine will crash, and take no less than 5 minutes to fix. And no one will have any cash on them.

When the CC machine crashes, everyone becomes suspiscious that we're trying to steal their identities.

[Quickdraw]

- Whenever you run out of five or one dollar bills, the front end supervisor for your shift is suddenly gone, once again leaving a rookie in charge who can't help you, because they're never given the proper keys.

[iradney]

When you've got a very yummy lunch packed and you're postively flooding the office with your drool, you'll get a call 30 seconds before your lunch break starts...

*weeps*

[Quickdraw]

- You can go for most of a shift without having a significant line in your register, only to suddenly have huge line of loaded customers about 10 minutes before you're supposed to leave.

[Zombi]

On a Sunday, there will be at least one Asian group, of at least 10 people, taking pictures, like BK is exotic or something (Might just be me, I don't know

Are we talking about Asian as in Far/South East (Australian usage), or Asian as in subcontinent (UK usage)? I hung out with a group of Koreans when I was at high school, and they used to whip their cameras out at the slightest provocation. It's just something they do, I think.

[KellyHabersham]

- whenever my co-worker would go on break/lunch/dinner, that's when the difficult returns and watch sizing would come up.

[theredbaron47]

- When you get that "feeling" that a customer is going to be difficult, when they're 20 feet away before they even get to your register, you're almost always right?

[myswtghst]

-Me going on lunch inevitably equals calls in queue. (I left for 10 minutes to pick up Wendy's for me and the guys today, came back to a call that had been in queue the entire time I was gone)

-Things never go wrong one at a time. They all happen at once--calls in queue, jerk on the phone, inexperienced coworker needing help from you, and software freezing/failing.

[HALFHUMANHALFZOMBIE]

-When Clothes Spiders (My metaphor for people who buy +20 articles of clothing in one setting) plop all the clothes on your belt they pick up the clothes that they leave on the belt and observe them annoyingly as you are scanning them.

-When a guy between his fourties and sixties comes to an express till with more than the amount required and you tell them It's express, they act like an asshole!

-People in a hurry tend to pick up items on the belt and hand them to you!

-When you get one guy who buys something that requires a price check at your till, if he comes to your till again on the same day he will want a price check on another item that he buys.

-On a ridiculously busy night when you finally get your last customer after hundreds with one item, He'll want a f9cking price check !

[Nakajo]

-when people have a ton of little items in their cart rather than most of the bulk stuff we sell (Costco), they leave their cart at the end of the register and expect you to unload it all ONTO the belt for them (YES, PEOPLE DO THAT ALL THE TIME)

-when you lend out the motor scooters to obsese people who refuse to walk because they're lazy, within the next 5 minutes a little old lady who can barely walk comes in and needs it (I feel SO bad when this happens)

-when people have that glare in their eye when they approach your register, the second the packer asks if they want their items boxed, they yell at the poor packer the whole time they're boxing/bagging their stuff?

-when people have a box or a cooler bag in their cart already, they feel the need to tell you they only want the small things in the box? (Do you really think I'm going to put your case of bottled water in a box that's half the size?)

-when people go out of their way and tell you 3 times they want all the cold stuff packed in a different box "so it stays cold", there is usually only ONE item in their order that is cold? (I got this ALL THE TIME)

[InverseHellion]

Ummm I feel kinda dumb for asking this but what's a WIC cheque? (Confuzzled Canadian here)

[ChicaViernes]

Ummm I feel kinda dumb for asking this but what's a WIC cheque? (Confuzzled Canadian here)

That's Women, Infants, Children. They are vouchers for free baby formula, baby food, and specific grocery items such as milk, orange juice, cheese, eggs, etc. This program is intended to ensure that low-income pregnant women and women with infants / children are receiving at least the minimum nutrition required. Only the items specifically stated on the vouchers can be used and they are very specific: cheese is (generally) cheapest brand with size specified; cereal has to be a certain brand(s) and certain size; juice is cheapest brand with size specified & so on & so forth.

I needed to use WIC for a few months and I always felt bad for the cashier who checked me out because it seemed that no matter when I went, the store was packed. (The workers at the WIC office suggest you go when the stores are less busy. Unfortunately most of the stores that accept WIC are Wal-Mart and they are never slow.)

[Bright_Star]

You could be half way through your shift & your register doesn't have anybody in it BUT let it be a half hour before you go home & that's when you get a HUGE line of people.

[DarthRetard]

-Only idiots, lunatics, and 12 year old's want to preorder Halo 3.
(not kidding, goodness I hate that game more than I hate RadioShack)

-After closing one register with fifteen minutes left before closing the store, three people want to trade in four systems and 37 games.

-Nobody ever understands why their copy of NBA Live 2001 on the xbox is worth less than 50 cents.

-No matter who it is, your new ASM will always be an incompetent, no-show jackass.

-You'll get a shipment of 15 Wii's, and everyone who had been asking for one won't come when you tell them to, but the NEXT day, then wonder why you don't have any.