I guess people don't know how to wait their turn.....

[Android Kaeli]

Wait your turn


I helped a customer check out at the registers, she went on her merry way after she checked out. As I'm helping other customers, she comes back to where I'm standing -- apparently she forgot to buy something.

SC: *trying to hand me a pack of stickers* I forgot to get these, can I buy them?
Me: You have to get in line.
SC: Can I buy these?
Me: You can, but you still have to get in line.
SC: Nevermind, I don't want them.

Customer sets the stickers down and walks away.


There was a line right here before!


Not long after the above, another customer comes up but goes to the register right behind me. [Again, the way the registers are set up is that there are two to a desk] I turn around and tell the customer that she needs to get in line.

SC: Well there was a line here ten minutes ago, with a girl standing here.
Me: And now she's not there, please get in line.

Customer didn't like it, but got in another line anyways while glaring at me.

[Ashaela]

That second one is a very "Derp?" moment.... (picture a kitty with head tilted sideways, no clue how this makes sense in any way whatsoever) Maybe she was operating on Customer Standard Time and thought it was actually ten minutes ago? Maybe you just need to explain things in a way the customer will better understand....

You could sing it.... "She's on break, I'm still here, a star is born, a star burns out, the only thing that stays the same is everything changes, everything changes...."

You could practice classic literature.... "What's in a checkout lane? A register with any other clerk would move as fast...."

You could declare a National Emergency and immediately close all registers, allowing the cashiers to assist in the store-wide hunt for the abducted checkout line. "But officer, it was here ten minutes ago! I only looked away for a moment..." *sobbing* "I never should have left it alone!"

[Marmalady]

Maybe she was operating on Customer Standard Time and thought it was actually ten minutes ago?

Or maybe a black hole had formed inside the store? And that checkout line had collapsed inside the Schwarzchild radius, and therefore appeared frozen in time (to the outward observer) at the moment when it happened?

[Daemonmonkey]

There was a line right here before!

Why not let him stand there as a fool looking att the other line move on?

[Mnemjian]

This reminds me of the post office... often people will just cut right ahead of everybody and walk up to a cashier (bonus points if they're still helping someone) and say "I just need to buy a stamp!" Uhm, how does that let you cut everybody in line? P.S. There's a postage machine right next to you

[Andara Bledin]

My local PO has a completely separate stamp line just to avoid this crap.

^-.-^