Wherein I Admit I'm a Creepy Cashier

[Jester]

@Jester My guess is track and field. Possibly soccer but I'd be willing to bet you were a runner/jumper. Maybe one of the lower weight divisions of wrestling but I'll stick with track and field.

I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be a bit more specific than that to impress me. You have several sports named above: soccer, wrestling, and track and field encompasses a myriad of sports.

Notice that I am not saying I did nor did not participate in any of the ones you mentioned. I am just looking for you to go out on a limb and be more specific.

I will tell you this: much as I wanted to, I did not play girl's field hockey.

[SuperRTL]

I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be a bit more specific than that to impress me. You have several sports named above: soccer, wrestling, and track and field encompasses a myriad of sports.

Notice that I am not saying I did nor did not participate in any of the ones you mentioned. I am just looking for you to go out on a limb and be more specific.

I will tell you this: much as I wanted to, I did not play girl's field hockey.

More specific? Ok. Most people who do track and field participate in more than 1 event. So, for you, I'm guessing hurdles and long jump.

[senor boogie woogie]

I'll start by saying that it is wrong to be rude to a service employee, and that they do not set the prices, policies, rules and regulations. If the customer has a problem, they can go to corporate, which doesn't really care about complaints or inconveniences of customers as long as maximum profit is made.

Saying that, I hate company membership cards. I would like to find the person who invented membership cards and strangle them, much like the cashier in this website's logo on the top left.

This is a website that is anti-membership cards. http://www.nocards.org/
It's a good website, and supports my views.

Why do I hate them?

1.) It doesn't save anyone any money.

2.) It allows the store to track one's purchases. Of course, one can give a fake number/address, and some (like me) do, but I try to avoid the hassle.

3.) It slooooows down the line. How many times a day does the cashier
ask the customer "Do you have a Rewards Card?", with the person saying,
"Oh, let me look," while fumbling around their purse or wallet because they have
10,000 of these damn things.

4.) It requires the clerk to "sell the cards" to people who may not want one, again, slowing up
the line. These cards are a big deal to management. I worked in a chain bookstore, and once in a meeting, the poor cashiers were RIPPED by their manager for not pushing those f'ing cards.

5.) Having a card does not make me a loyal shopper/consumer. It just fills my wallet up with more plastic and garbage. I don't want a George Costanza wallet.

6.) A little bit different, but I think it is absolutely asinine for people to pay membership fees and give their personal information away to shop in a "Warehouse Store" like Costco's or Sam's. Pay money for the priviledge of spending money. Yeah right.

Many different companies have these membership/club/discount/frequent flier cards. I have worked in hotels, retail, casinos (these are big in casinos), just anywhere. I do tend to frequent supermarkets that do not have these cards, and happily, according to www.nocards.com, some are giving them up, or have the forsight to not have them (since they tend to annoy the customers, and is cost prohibitive).

Again, I'd like to find the person who invented these things and shove a pound of plastic up his ass.

[Jester]

More specific? Ok. Most people who do track and field participate in more than 1 event. So, for you, I'm guessing hurdles and long jump.

BBZZZZTTTTT!!!!! Sorry, wrong answer. But thanks for playing!

Okay, to be fair, you said you did this to people in person, and all you had to work with was pictures. So I can't fault you all that much.

Truth be told, I did run track (400 meters and 800 meters) my sophomore year (first high school), I tried my hand at cross country my junior year (second high school), and signed up for track senior year (third high school) but quit shortly into it, though I can't remember why.

I was a runner, though not a very good one. I only ran track because they did not have a bicycling team at any of my three high schools. I STARTED running track for (what else?) a girl, my first major crush. While I did not get the girl, or even really come close, the motivation to do so actually helped change my life. I went from making a lunch out of 3-4 candy bars and a soda or two to actually starting to eat real food, something I've never stopped doing since that time. A friend's mother even commented to me shortly after this change that I looked much healthier and less "green." Apparently I had started to look rather unhealthy.

So yeah, I was a runner. A really BAD runner, but a runner nonetheless. Long jump? Oh hell no. Hurdles? Too short, no form. As for soccer, I played it for a couple years in grade school, but could never wrap my head around the whole "no hands" thing, and often got busted for it. Hey, a ball's coming at my head, my 8-year-old brain's instinct is to throw up a hand or arm to swat it away, NOT to hit it with my freakin' head! And wrestling?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!

I'm relatively thin now, but I was a scrawny little shit in high school, never weighing in at more than 130 pounds. Hell, I actually looked a bit skinner than I was, because most of my muscle mass was in my legs from bicycling. (Still is, actually.) But besides that, the wrestlers would have torn me apart. I don't mean figuratively. I mean literally. And frankly, I just did not get the point of rolling around on a mat in a leotard with another sweaty guy. Frankly, I still don't.

Wow, we are way off topic now. How the hell did this happen?

Ref! Get in here and get this game....er, uh, THREAD back on track, will ya?

[Andara Bledin]

A note for all you "lotta keys" people who drive: Don't hang that mass of keys off of your starter key - it's bad for your ignition switch. If you really need all those keys with you all the time, put the car key on a piece that can be detached for use.

What my keys and wallet say about me: I drive a car modern enough to have a chipped key and it's a generic copy, I like animal print patterns, I like bells, I have a lock box of some sort (mailbox, safety deposit, etc), I have something else padlocked, I like pink, and I don't need to open my wallet to use it.

^-.-^

[Jester]

A note for all you "lotta keys" people who drive: Don't hang that mass of keys off of your starter key - it's bad for your ignition switch.

This I know. My keys are all on rings that are on a caribiner, so I can detach any of them at any time, and always do so for my car keys.

[Soylent Greengrocer]

I'm tired of the "Where's Georgia" statements. I'm just about to say she died and that I ate her brains or something just to get them to shut up.

I absolutely want to steal this! I've had customers ask me about the whereabouts of cashiers past even after they find out that I've only been working there since January!