Stop that!

[MoxisPilot]

The woman - henceforth SC - in line ahead of me today at the shopette (read: convenience store) had two baskets full of groceries. (Lady, go shop at the Commissary, SERIOUSLY. But W/e.)

Anyway, one register open, two baskets full of stuff, and the poor cashier is trying to scan her items while SC kept reaching over the counter, grabbing the scanned stuff and RE-SCANNING IT, and subsequently making the cashier remove double-scanned items.

I'm right behind her, making faces at the cashier in an attempt to prevent her from pulling out a 2x4 and braining the SC.

As the items get rung up (SLOOOOOOOOOWLY), the SC starts reaching across the counter and interfering with the bagging process. Cashier bags an item, SC pulls it out and bags a different item. Cashier bags another item, SC pulls out the previous item AND the current item, bags the first item. Like a game of three-card monte, I shit you not.

Finally, the SC pulls out a wad of cash, pays...and then continues to block the cash register with her mountain of bagged items. She looks back at me and goes, "You can go now."

So I handed my items to the cashier OVER SC'S SHOULDER, and reached around her to swipe my card.

It took twenty minutes for her to get through the damn line. They had to open a second register during downtime JUST BECAUSE OF HER.


Any of you have customers like this? Seriously, I'd have lost my temper and slapped her hands out of the way every time she reached back behind the counter.

[Andara Bledin]

Finally, the SC pulls out a wad of cash, pays...and then continues to block the cash register with her mountain of bagged items. She looks back at me and goes, "You can go now."

"I'd love to, but there's some annoying idiot who likes to interfere with people doing their jobs blocking my way," *pointed look*

I'd do it just because the cashier can't.

^-.-^

[kpzra]

I sometime wonder why them put so many tills in when the shopette was rebuilt on post, I'm pretty sure they are just for decoration. On the gand opening, 2 tills open, and people with carts of stuff (Class 6 was there too) and noone wanting to leave when done. Combine that with one way gas pumps, and you have the fun of the Airborne shopette on Benning

[PepperElf]

"You can go now."

"Sorry you're blocking the way, I'll wait thanks."

[MoxisPilot]

I sometime wonder why them put so many tills in when the shopette was rebuilt on post, I'm pretty sure they are just for decoration. On the gand opening, 2 tills open, and people with carts of stuff (Class 6 was there too) and noone wanting to leave when done. Combine that with one way gas pumps, and you have the fun of the Airborne shopette on Benning

THIS. Jesus. They put in four new tills, but only open one at any given time. I DON'T GET IT!

Clothing sales and alterations are in the same store.

It blows my mind.

[MoxisPilot]

"I'd love to, but there's some annoying idiot who likes to interfere with people doing their jobs blocking my way," *pointed look*

I'd do it just because the cashier can't.

^-.-^

I would have (and would have loved doing it, too), but I don't think she would have understood me, and I can't say it in Italian.

[Summerfly413]

When people try to bag their own things I stop bagging their stuff all together.

What really gets on my nerves is when people rebag everything after i've already done it, instead of telling me what they want. I find it insulting when they do it right in front of me like I should've known.

It's also really annoying to have people set their things ON the scanner, and it can scan multiple times because it's so sensitve.

[Andara Bledin]

I would have (and would have loved doing it, too), but I don't think she would have understood me, and I can't say it in Italian.

It's amazing the sheer amount of information you can convey with a properly pointed look. Being able to raise a single eyebrow is also a plus.

^-.-^

[MoxisPilot]

It's amazing the sheer amount of information you can convey with a properly pointed look. Being able to raise a single eyebrow is also a plus.

^-.-^

I would be tempted to agree.

However, Italian women are the MASTERS of facial expressions (and ignoring pointed looks). For the most part, I bow to them. They could cut through steel and melt granite with their "You're the dirt between my toes" deathglare. (You have to master this look before shopping downtown, or people harass you if you have BEWBS. On that note, I recommend some kind of CustomersSuck Deathglare seminar in Naples...)

Anyway, me looking pointedly at this woman would have been like trying to kill an elephant with a slingshot loaded with one wad of pre-chewed bubblegum.

The pink kind.

...Can some people NOT raise one eyebrow???

[Andara Bledin]

Anyway, me looking pointedly at this woman would have been like trying to kill an elephant with a slingshot loaded with one wad of pre-chewed bubblegum.

The pink kind.

Ah, yes, I can see how this might not end well.

...Can some people NOT raise one eyebrow???

Actually, I've met a lot of people who can't. I can raise either one, and I can alternate them as a stupid human trick.

^-.-^

[Bella_Vixen]

...Can some people NOT raise one eyebrow???

My brother can't. We all do it to him, and it drives him insane.

[Imogene]

I can't, but you'd imagine it would be the other way around, what with having lost most of the muscle control on one side of my face at one point in my life... *sigh* My quest to be more like Spock must be put on hold...

[Becks]

What really gets on my nerves is when people rebag everything after i've already done it, instead of telling me what they want. I find it insulting when they do it right in front of me like I should've known.

Same here.

...Can some people NOT raise one eyebrow???

Wait for it...

My brother can't. We all do it to him, and it drives him insane.

What she said. It's fun when we all take turns raising an eyebrow at him.

[MoxisPilot]

My brother can't. We all do it to him, and it drives him insane.

Weird. Just weird!

I mean, I know some people can't curl their tongue like a taco, but the eyebrow thing...Huh.

[Bella_Vixen]

It's fun when we all take turns raising an eyebrow at him.

Up to and including at least 2 of his 3 kids.