Forgetting Something...?

[Sandy]

Now this lady was not an SC as such, just forgetful.
It was pretty quiet on the checkouts, when one lady comes up to me with a few things. She's making chit chat with me, the usual, then she starts telling me about how nice she is, and how she gives things to people, etc.

So after I've bagged her stuff, she started walking off. I didn't know how to approach the pressing issue, since it had never happened to me before, so I just said,"Um ... you actually haven't paid".

So she got really embarrassed and paid for her things. I mean, it could well have been an honest mistake, but seriously, how could you forget to pay? And if she WAS trying to scam me, did she really think I wouldn't notice SHE HADN'T PAID??

Hehehehe!

[AFpheonix]

Had a few like that. Good lord, people, sometimes they act like they've never gone though a transaction at a shop before.

I had one lady totally forget her entire purse before. The tech that rang her out didn't notice, and the lady called back like 10 minutes later asking if it was there. Thank god, it was still on the counter, I had her verify the purse manufacturer, and had it waiting for her behind the counter.

[MadMike]

I actually did something like that myself once.

I went to the local K-Mart a few years back to pick up a few items. I found everything except for one item. I was holding the items that I had already found, and went to the service desk to ask about the missing item. It turned out they didn't carry it, so I walked out of the store...

...forgetting one minor thing. Namely, the items that I had in my hand, which I had not paid for. I got about halfway to my car, when I realized what I had just done. I think my heart skipped a beat, as I said, "Oh shit!"

Worrying that they were about to come charging out the doors any minute and chase me down as a shoplifter, I quickly went back inside, back to the service desk, and explained what had just happened. Turned out, no one had any idea what I was done, and as she was ringing up my items, she expressed surprise that I had actually come back.

I'm basically an honest person, but I'm so scatterbrained at times, it isn't even funny.

[Broomjockey]

I'm basically an honest person, but I'm so scatterbrained at times, it isn't even funny.

I wanna be the one to say it. Actually Mike, it is funny!
I've forgotten stuff from time to time, but I've become a real stickler for making sure I've got everything since I lost my wallet one time

[batmoody]

Iv'e had quite a few customers leave without their groceries.

[One-Fang]

I forgot to pay for the pizza once. Phone order. When I went to collect, they told me it wasn't ready and to wait. Usually, pizza co's take your money then and there. For some reason, they didn't. When the pizza was ready, I did the perfectly normal thing - take it and leave. I mean, usually you've paid by then, you just take the pizza and leave.

They phoned later that night. I still had not even realised myself. I shot down and paid for it, of course.

[Great Unknown]

Debit card users "forget" to enter their PIN at the end of a transaction every couple of days. Makes me wonder if they're impatient or trying to pull a fast one. Sometimes they scoot toward the door so fast that I'm sure they're being 'sneaky'.

[Gurndigarn]

When my wife was younger, she freaked out a convenience store clerk by actually coming back the next day with a comic book she had been reading and absent-mindedly walked off with.

[Byronthebanker]

I've had someone forget to pay for a Certificate of Deposit - to the tune of $50,000 (and I forgot to ask for the payment too!)

We're in the office doing business, and I saw her writing the check, and then I get to preparing the documents, I sign, she signs, I put a few things in order, chat chat, thanks for coming in . . .good bye.

She came down the next day, and we paid the extra day of interest on it.

[friendofjimmyk]

OH MY!!! Been there done that on more than one occasion...

at the grocery store that is...not a $50,000 deposit!

[dispatch]

I've walked off without my purchases here and there, the cashiers always stop me with a look on their face like they're holding back allot of laughter, then there was one time I forgot to pay the lunch vendor for a sandwich and didn't realise it until I had gotten to the park down the street where I was parking to eat and smoke (no smoking on company property, we had 1 hour lunches) I got back and explained to the guy what had happened, he said he didn't remember, but thanked me for my honesty and offered to not charge me since I wasn't sure if I had paid or not and he didn't remember me at all.

[Greenday]

I'm used to having people try to walk away without paying for their food. It's fairly common at my job. I always just walked after them and told them they needed to pay for their food. Luckily, none of them gave me attitude, they just coughed up the money.

[Imogene]

Way back when I woked at Citimortgage, one day, I went down to grab lunch from the cafeteria, I was all the way through to the cashier before I realised I didn't have my wallet on me. The cashier told me to just go ahead and take it, and you can pay for it later.
The next day (apparently I'd left my wallet at home, most likely Dad had driven in, and I carpooled with him) I go down to the cafeteria, seek out the cashier who'd helped me the day before, and tell her I owe her for a lunch. She got a surprised look on her face, and said "I didn't really expect you to come back and pay for it, but that shows some strong moral fiber," or something like that.

[skeptic53]

In college my housemates and I left a case of beer on the lower part of a shopping cart, drove 20 miles home & discovered the loss. Despite the low odds of recovery, we drove back and it was still there!! I believe "the killer weed that leads to communism" might have been a factor in our forgetfulness...

[Discourtesy Clerk]

I've walked out without paying a couple of times...usually I get a dirty look, even though I come back, apologise, and pay. God damn, people. I'm not a shoplifter if I come back to PAY FOR IT. Just hopelessly absentminded to the point of ridiculous. They thought it was really funny the time I did it at work, though.

I also get the people that leave their groceries on the counter, which probably happens about once or twice every day. I have to chase them down in the parking lot. It's especially entertaining when they walk off without the only bag they have, even though I put it right in front of them...

In college my housemates and I left a case of beer on the lower part of a shopping cart, drove 20 miles home & discovered the loss. Despite the low odds of recovery, we drove back and it was still there!! I believe "the killer weed that leads to communism" might have been a factor in our forgetfulness...

Haha. One of my managers was just saying the other day, how people always forget the water or soda under their cart, but never the beer...I guess she's not quite right about that.