Catfight in Self Serve!

[Kilamon]

So I'm making one of my many trips to Home Depot (tis the season!) and I'm cruising the tool aisle looking at routers, bits for them, etc, and about to leave the tools area when I found a reason to loiter at the levels. It seems there was a line (one of) at the self-serve U-Scan stations. Nothing out of the ordinary. What made me stop was a woman and her husband who had been standing as though watching the other people scanning suddenly move up to the scanner nearest them and begin to scan! They completely avoided the line. This pair were straight out of the trailer park handbook of fashion, too. She had one of those "wife beater" undershirts with a black, unadjusted bra, loose shorts and no reason to show any midriff after the forty or fifty donuts she had eaten that morning. I'm sure they were in the larval stage a couple hours ago, but those donuts had gestated in to full on fat handles of the sumo variety. Her husband fared no better with a white (bobsy twins, anyone) shirt proclaiming his blind following to Harley-Davidson with a red NASCAR cap and short, dirty blonde goatee. Actually, they were both dirty, and I mean just literal dirt and smears on them.

In any case, as I saw them move up and what made me stop to listen was how another fashion victim, though black, was at the head of the long-existant line attempted to educate her poor sister in threads. The conversation was something like:

NW: Nascar Woman
NM: Nascar Man
RPW: Rightous, Patient Woman

RPW: Excu-use me. Hello? There is a line here.
NW: *ignore mode activated*
RPW: Hey, Bitch! I know you can hear me. You think you're too good for the line?
-I'm thinking, "crap, it's on now!"
NW: No, there are two lines.
RWP: Oh no, there's one line and it's here. You can't just walk up there.
NM: Why don't you just shut up?
NW: Yeah, who cares? We waited.
RPW: *looks to the clerk for help. Clerk is staring very intently at his monitor.* Bitch, scan your shit before I whip you. (NW and NM were already scanning within 2 seconds of getting to the machine).

Sadly, no claws were produced. The people in line behind RPW were starting to get in to it, too. I saw NW and NM later as they were cruising to the exit (by way of the sales) and in a glance at them, I could tell they knew they knew they took advantage of the situation and were just looking for a fight.

Ah, the excitement of HD. I've got to make a trip there now.

[HALFHUMANHALFZOMBIE]

ha ha ha funny. I like watching grown people argue over something so absurd. I guess people can't handle being in the public.

[JustADude]

ha ha ha funny. I like watching grown people argue over something so absurd. I guess people can't handle being in the public.

Frankly, I'd have torn the trashy pair a new one myself... though I'd have been a bit more classy about it. Breaking in front of people who have already been waiting is a big no-no in every society, modern or primitive, and they needed to get chewed out for it. Hell, it's even been enough to get some people, quite literally, beaten bloody on a few occasions during the last-minute holiday rush.

[RentalRacer]

RPW: Rightous, Patient Woman

RPW: Excu-use me. Hello? There is a line here.
NW: *ignore mode activated*
RPW: Hey, Bitch! I know you can hear me. You think you're too good for the line?
-I'm thinking, "crap, it's on now!"
NW: No, there are two lines.
RWP: Oh no, there's one line and it's here. You can't just walk up there.
NM: Why don't you just shut up?
NW: Yeah, who cares? We waited.
RPW: *looks to the clerk for help. Clerk is staring very intently at his monitor.* Bitch, scan your shit before I whip you. (NW and NM were already scanning within 2 seconds of getting to the machine)

Why on earth if there is more than one self scan operating at once would there only be one line(from the OP you can see at least 2 were open)?? If it is set up like my HD, there are 3 rows of 2 registers each for the self serve...would you not treat that the same as if you were at a regular register with a cashier(individual lines)? Even in the express aisles at grocery stores that are grouped in a similar setup have individual lines form. Never once in my 4 years as a cashier did I see someone in line at aisle 4 yell at someone who walked up to another express register where there was no line that they were first(registers 1,2,3,4 were in a square).

While I may have pointed out to others in front of me that more than one lane was open and they should go ahead of me, I also would not wait in a line like a sheep like "RPW" did when there are clearly other lanes open. Or, I may assume that since they are all at one register, they are part of group and just gone over to the unattended self scan like the couple did. Sometimes, when you snooze, you lose!

So, in my opinion, they were both a little in the wrong. I don't know if I agree that the R in RPW should stand for "Righteous". Especially since she yelled out profanity in a public setting.

[zzapp the witch]

I know lots of righteous people who blaspheme, (but never take the lord's name in vain, go figure).

[Arcade Man D]

Why on earth if there is more than one self scan operating at once would there only be one line(from the OP you can see at least 2 were open)??

Actually, a lot of places do multiple registers for one line. A bank line-up, if you will. I'm pretty sure that's how this self-serve block worked from the description.

[RentalRacer]

Actually, a lot of places do multiple registers for one line. A bank line-up, if you will. I'm pretty sure that's how this self-serve block worked from the description.

Yes, many non-retail stores don't have designated lines...Banks, Car Rental Counters, Airline Counters, some Movie Theaters etc. However, most of those places have signs that say "Form One Line Here"/"Please Wait Here" or a roped in area where you line up single file.

To my knowledge, HD does not have these signs at their self checkouts. Nor do the Lowes or Shaws in my city, which both have self-checkout lanes. Or the Albertsons I used to shop at out west for that matter.

Hence my perspective on this issue.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Well, once they got a warning and didn't move, then it would be on. Mwah ha ha.

"We waited."
"Yeah, I waited too. I've waited five years to get out of prison after I murdered the LAST son of a beech who broke in line in front of me and I just got on parole today...but I already miss my cellmate Bubsy and I'm thinkin'a ways to get back to her..."

Sometimes, you gotta fight trash with bigger trash.

[blas]

Blasphemy you say?

Do not take my name in vein, thank you very much!

Threads like these go to show just how much I truly absolutely positively despise white trash and filthy people. No manners, no class, no hygene.

People like that should be confined to their double wide and Pintos.

[Becks]

Breaking in front of people who have already been waiting is a big no-no in every society, modern or primitive, and they needed to get chewed out for it.

Exactly. And don't they teach that sort of thing in kindergarten?

If I'm disappointed because no punches were thrown, does that make me a horrible person?

[Sliceanddice]

At my usual store at the self check out area its one line for four registers.

[trunks2k]

To my knowledge, HD does not have these signs at their self checkouts. Nor do the Lowes or Shaws in my city, which both have self-checkout lanes. Or the Albertsons I used to shop at out west for that matter.

But a single line would be implied, by the fact that there's one line of people. At the grocery store I go to, it has a set of self checkout lines (2 lanes of 2), people just naturally form a single line. When there's a line six people long leading to the self-checkouts, you don't need a sign to tell you that there's a single line.

[JustADude]

If I'm disappointed because no punches were thrown, does that make me a horrible person?

Yep! But that's okay, we like you anyway!

[Becks]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!

I TRY to be well-behaved, but then people say how boring I am when I behave myself.

[Jack7957]

At my local HD, they've put a display rack inbetween the two sets of self-scan checkouts, so you're forced to form two lines.