Posted on 11/09/2015 4:51:21 PM PST by sparklite2
How to choose the best queue:
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
In my community, the stores at which only two out of nine, ten or 12 checkstands are open are all unionized. By contrast, a all of the checkstands are usually manned at a non-union supermarket down the street that caters to Mexican-Americans.
I always pick the line with the most men in it.
They always seem to be in more of a hurry.”
And they don’t have four expanding files to go through looking for one coupon.
Since I started to wear the burqa, my line is always very very fast.
Not me! I write checks because mine have big cats on them, which I like, and I'm going to use those babies until checks become a thing of the past.
I fill everything out---except for the amount---before I get in line. My transactions are completed more quickly than those where the person is fumbling with their debit card ("Which button do I press? Uh...which one, again? Can you show me? Oops, hit the wrong one...now what do I do?")
In most cases, though, I don't have to fill out anything. I just hand them the check, they print the amount on it, and that's it.
Then stay away from the Walmart in Appomattox, VA.
It’s one of those corollaries to Murphy’s Law:
The line you join will grind to a halt.
An object dropped on the floor will roll to the most inaccessible spot.
The amount of stuff you own exceeds the available storage space.
When you go to buy that one item you really need, there will only be one last one on the shelf, and it’s in a package that has obviously been opened already, and is now enclosed in a very bad application of packing tape.
Never buy any shoes without your mom.
They are all true.
True story...I was waiting in line at a local Subway, I was next in line right after an old guy, he reaches in pocket for something and comes out with a list.
That’s not the worse part...he couldn’t read it and asked the employee if he could read it, the minute he said ‘well this looks like’...I used a couple of loud expletives and walked out.
That's about right. And they usually wait until all the items have been scanned and bagged before they suddenly realize they are expected to pay for this and now they start fishing around in their purse for the checkbook. Then the coupons.
Despite our affluence, my wife is a coupon fanatic and she maintains a complicated filing system for them. But I just can't deal with them. When I do the shopping, she'll give me coupons for the things she has on the list but I just end up chucking them. To me, it feels too much like using food stamps.
if you factor in the time necessary for dealing with coupons it’s not worth the effort anyway.
Men don’t screw around with coupons either.
I always pick the line with the prettiest checker. Then I can wait forever in line or until my ice cream melts, whichever comes first.
[I always pick the line with the most men in it.]
I’m a man and I know why, we just want get the hell out of there as fast as possible.
A couple of times I’ve had cashiers who rotate the carousel clockwise and she would have to fill three more bags before I could get my hands on the first bag to load in the cart.
I settled that when it happened again...I got right in back of the cashier and grabbed the first bag she loaded and every bag after that and took them to the cart.
She gave me a nasty look but I was out of there a lot faster than the other customers.
Because just in front of you;
1. One of the four items in her basket needs a price check.
2. Shift change for the clerk.
3. Register tape needs changing.
4. Can’t get the candy wrapper outta the kids hand so it can be scanned.
add yours here:
Because...you chose the line with the old lady in it who waits till everything is rung up to hand over coupons...oh...and then starts to pull out her checkbook...but she can’t find her pen...
5. EBT illegal purchases having to be scanned back out to determine balance of payment.
6. The cashier and customer are friends, and the cashier can’t scan and talk at the same time.
7. Your mama.
8. Florida store manager has to approve check written on the Bank of Alaska.
I would use a credit card to pay my utility bills and my mortgage but thos b*st*rds won't take it.
They want authorization to draw directly on my bank account, which they won't ever get while my lungs contain air.
So I pay all my monthly bills by check.
My kids love that bit :-). The teens taught the two year old to say,”you want chicken or chicken?” My 14 year old used the toilet paper line to get me to stop buying cheap toilet paper. He totally agrees with Mr. Pinette on that! They are probably right.
...Avoid supermarket lines where women wear burkas or hijabs.”
Then stay away from the Walmart in Appomattox, VA...
After seeing the savage moslem female from the dark ages pull a knife from her purse that quickly and attack a security guard, I won’t get closer than 30 feet to one. Female or not, she would be dropped quickly from a distance if she tried that. No thanks.
Don’t blame you. The Walmart store I mentioned is crawling with Muslims. When they pass by, they look at you as if they want to kill you.
Something to remember.
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