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An older woman comes through the lane with a loaf of cheap nasty bread, one potato in a produce bag, and about 20 snack-size chip bags. She throws a scungy, ripped paper-in-plastic bag at me and mutters something that neither I nor the cashier catch. The cashier asks her if the one bag is okay, to which she grunts a clear yes.
So I start bagging, placing the lonely potato at the very bottom of the bag and piling the chips on top with the bread beside it. Everything fits, nothing is squished and the bag is quite lightweight. I go to put the bag in the cart and "No! No! You stupid girl, can't you learn? I wanted the potatoes in the bag!"
Cashier: "Ma'am, you said that ONE bag was okay. This is what we (she didn't want to give this harpy my name) did. The bag is very light, and I can assure you your chips will not get damaged."
OW: "No! No! I want the potatoes in one bag and everything else in another plastic bag!"
Cashier is getting a bit fed up at this point, as am I (but never, ever let them see you're not smiling)
Sigh. Rebag everything; chips in the paper bag, potato in another plastic bag and bread in a third.
OW: "I want paper in plastic!" Paper in plastic (which takes twice as long to finagle the bags, and the paper bag supply is precious) for a bag of bread? Yes mistress. Rebag. At this point there's a line, but they seem to be getting angry at the OW and not us.
Rabble, rant, rave. She wants everything in one bag. (wouldn't some of the chips have been damaged anyway through all the shuffling around?) So I repack everything in her scungy bag, cashier coolly bids her farewell (didn't even offer the own-bag discount) and starts with the next customer...who snuck me a $3 tip with the comment "You look like you need a coffee for dealing with that. Get one on me."
FEM told me later that OW tried to complain, but that FEM saw the whole thing and the complaint will be ignored.
So I start bagging, placing the lonely potato at the very bottom of the bag and piling the chips on top with the bread beside it. Everything fits, nothing is squished and the bag is quite lightweight. I go to put the bag in the cart and "No! No! You stupid girl, can't you learn? I wanted the potatoes in the bag!"
Cashier: "Ma'am, you said that ONE bag was okay. This is what we (she didn't want to give this harpy my name) did. The bag is very light, and I can assure you your chips will not get damaged."
OW: "No! No! I want the potatoes in one bag and everything else in another plastic bag!"
Cashier is getting a bit fed up at this point, as am I (but never, ever let them see you're not smiling)
Sigh. Rebag everything; chips in the paper bag, potato in another plastic bag and bread in a third.
OW: "I want paper in plastic!" Paper in plastic (which takes twice as long to finagle the bags, and the paper bag supply is precious) for a bag of bread? Yes mistress. Rebag. At this point there's a line, but they seem to be getting angry at the OW and not us.
Rabble, rant, rave. She wants everything in one bag. (wouldn't some of the chips have been damaged anyway through all the shuffling around?) So I repack everything in her scungy bag, cashier coolly bids her farewell (didn't even offer the own-bag discount) and starts with the next customer...who snuck me a $3 tip with the comment "You look like you need a coffee for dealing with that. Get one on me."
FEM told me later that OW tried to complain, but that FEM saw the whole thing and the complaint will be ignored.
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