Went to the grocery store to take advantage of some serious sales. It's been a while since I went for a full-on order, so the list was long. An entire cartful, overflowing. Was the only one in line at checkout. In the middle of checking out, a woman gets in line behind us with her cartful. She immediately starts the huffing and "J**** C**** now I have to wait" song. (No matter that there were two other cashiers standing idle when she came up.) She started to try to push my son (6'2", standing behind our cart helping unload it onto the belt) through with her cart!
We ignored her, the cashier trying very hard to hide a smirk, exchanging rolls of the eyes with me, my son very capably standing his ground and not budging, the woman continuing her grumpy commentary. I was giggling to myself, thinking of the threads here, wishing there was some legitimate way we could drag this out just for fun.
Once all was rung through, the cashier took my club card (the one that gets the discounts for "club" members) to scan for the discounts. The woman blurted out, "Those cards are useless and just make things take longer!" It was one swipe of the card, followed by the cashier's pleasant and very audible announcement that I'd just saved $100.82 by using my club card (which was the truth). People for two aisles down on both sides broke up laughing as the woman fired us a look that would have withered, had we cared.
We left the cashier with a hearty "thanks for being so fast!"
We ignored her, the cashier trying very hard to hide a smirk, exchanging rolls of the eyes with me, my son very capably standing his ground and not budging, the woman continuing her grumpy commentary. I was giggling to myself, thinking of the threads here, wishing there was some legitimate way we could drag this out just for fun.
Once all was rung through, the cashier took my club card (the one that gets the discounts for "club" members) to scan for the discounts. The woman blurted out, "Those cards are useless and just make things take longer!" It was one swipe of the card, followed by the cashier's pleasant and very audible announcement that I'd just saved $100.82 by using my club card (which was the truth). People for two aisles down on both sides broke up laughing as the woman fired us a look that would have withered, had we cared.
We left the cashier with a hearty "thanks for being so fast!"
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