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    I actually have a sighting to post! That doesn't happen often. This one is actually my mom's and she told us about it over dinner.

    She went to AC Moore (craft store) and when she went to pay, there was a woman "standing in no particular line" as she put it. She was just sort of hanging around the registers but not heading to any particular one. Also, she was on her phone. So my mom picked a register and got on line.

    The woman accused her of cutting...because she was waiting to see which line moved the fastest before picking one. They do not have a one line-several cashiers sort of set up (such as Kohls has, which works quite well). They just have the separate register counters, like a grocery store; pick one and hope it moves quickly. Well, my mom told her that she wasn't in a line, and she was on the phone, so what did she expect. The woman said, "Well, my daughter called and she had a problem so I had to talk to her!"

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    Small bonus sighting: I went to Target on my way to my parents' house and as I was walking out through the vestibule behind a couple, as we were passing the "Target is a smoke-free environment" sign, I smelled cigarette smoke. At first I thought I was just smelling it on their clothes or something, but as we walked out the second door I realized no, she couldn't wait to actually get out of the building to light up her cigarette.
    Last edited by BookstoreEscapee; 12-12-2010, 02:04 AM.
    I don't go in for ancient wisdom
    I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
    It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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    she was too busy on the phone therefore she missed her chance
    you snooze you lose

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    • #3
      There may be an advantage to letting these poeple cut in line:

      http://www.gmanews.tv/story/207960/g...the-p740-m-pot

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      • #4
        Thread jack, for which I apologise for in advance

        My fella and I queued for 25 minutes at the electronics desk in the supermarket this week, everyone was waiting nicely and it wasn't too bad. We get to the desk put our stuff down and this woman comes storming up saying the package she collected from the mail order service was damaged (n.b. she wasn't even at the right desk to get this sorted). She cuts in front of us whilst we are mid purchase and starts ranting at the poor girl behind the counter. The employee could only offer a refund with a reciept (which the customer didn't have) and that was all, they couldn't order a replacement because they don't have the facilities for that.
        The woman starts kicking up a fuss saying how is was for a present (everyone is buying presents!) and that she has to go ALL the way home (probably not that far) to get the email confirmation of the order (that acts as a reciept).
        The customer then turns to me and my fella and says (after monopolising the employees time for over 5 minutes) "I hope I'm not cutting in"
        To which I prompty turn around and say "actually, you have. There is a 25 minutes queue that everyone has been waiting in to get service"

        Lady wasn't too pleased at that and stomped off. Employee smiled though

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        • #5
          Go you!
          I don't go in for ancient wisdom
          I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
          It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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          • #6
            Quoth PepperElf View Post
            she was too busy on the phone therefore she missed her chance
            you snooze you lose
            You pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. Tough shit, lady, you snooze, you lose.
            The Borg wouldn't know fun if they assimilated an amusement park. -- B'Elanna Torres, Star Trek: Voyager

            Math! Math, my dear boy, is but the lesbian sister of Biology. -- Peter Griffin, Family Guy

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            • #7
              To be cut in line, doesn't a person have to actually BE in line first? Basically that lady wanted to create a "line line" or something. Yeah, that's what I want to have to do at the grocery store... wait in a second line. That lady was nuts!
              !
              "For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." -- Lord Byron

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