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Re: Pet Peeves?
People in general.
Cats - smug bastards. Mosquitos - total wankers. Flies - useless. Skateboarders - Take you little piece of wheeled wood and stick it up your arse. Surfers - Dude while you're communing with nature and getting in touch with the flow of life and the ocean that piece of styrofoam you're floating about on has a half life of 10,000.00 years. Bumper stickers - NOBODY CARES if your kid is honor student of the bloody century, you love you Chevy or that you think Sarah Palin is great. People that move to the US and 5 minutes later start speaking with a weird accent that they think sounds American. Starbucks - Shit coffee is still shit coffee even if you gave me half a gallon of it for 3 bucks. |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
(Post 9634517)
I had to think about that... the answer's still "no". If I have a lot of stuff at the supermarket, and I see the person behind me has 2 items, I'll often offer them to go in front of me. Of course that's backfired when they accept, and then proceed to wait until the cashier tells them the amount before they wade through their pockets for change, or worse produce a chequebook, and handwrite a cheque out which takes them forever. If I don't offer, you're not getting in front. ;)
The worst check-out like one is Sunday in K-Mart at about 11, when they have 3 lines open but there are 500 people getting stuff for dinner - and the person at the front of a queue of 10 people who decides 'yes, I would like to sign up for a loyalty card now, thank you' :eek: |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 9634547)
Aye, I know what you mean. I'll let people in if they are carrying a few items to be nice. A lot of the time they decline the offer as well - but it is nice to be asked. Lord knows I never am when I have an armful of groceries and no trolley!
The worst check-out like one is Sunday in K-Mart at about 11, when they have 3 lines open but there are 500 people getting stuff for dinner - and the person at the front of a queue of 10 people who decides 'yes, I would like to sign up for a loyalty card now, thank you' :eek: |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
(Post 9634582)
One more reason I never shop in K-Mart for groceries, I suppose. :lol:
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by tonrob
(Post 9634522)
And, more to the point, you'd have to let them in before you could judge the quality of their arse. Maybe you could let them in conditionally with some sort of get-out clause.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 9634586)
It could happen anywhere there are loyalty cards, and customers not smart enough to sign up for them at the service desk :)
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Something else...
The "10 items or less - Speedy Checkout" desks at Walmart, are not for people that have to write cheques, or that want to get the cashier round to show them how to get cash back off their debit cards. What effin part of "Speedy" do you not understand?:frown: |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
(Post 9634599)
Yeah but in the local K-Mart here, they always ask you to sign up at the checkout, when they're backed up with customers. I have to admit.. I've been one of those customers in there.. well not me exactly, but I've stood there while the person I was with filled the card out, and I never felt guilty :lol: It's a good reason to never look behind you when in the checkout que.
I rarely go into K-Mart anymore, unless they have a good sale on. I prefer the places with self-checkouts anyway, much quicker and I like to do my own bagging. |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 9634604)
Manuel? :p
I rarely go into K-Mart anymore, unless they have a good sale on. I prefer the places with self-checkouts anyway, much quicker and I like to do my own bagging. I prefer them, but they seem to have done away with the self-checkouts in the Walmarts locally.. I suppose they were "losing" too much stuff. Publix never had them, but they have baggers.. of varying capability. ;) |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Englishman43
(Post 9634538)
Skateboarders - Take you little piece of wheeled wood and stick it up your arse.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
(Post 9634628)
:lol: You realise I was going to say "line"? Shows how this bloody place has affected me, when I can't even automatically say queue anymore. :o
I prefer them, but they seem to have done away with the self-checkouts in the Walmarts locally.. I suppose they were "losing" too much stuff. Publix never had them, but they have baggers.. of varying capability. ;) |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by robin1234
(Post 9634352)
:thumbup:
[ps. CAdreaming & I are performing safe irony.] |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
(Post 9634602)
Something else...
The "10 items or less - Speedy Checkout" desks at Walmart, are not for people that have to write cheques, or that want to get the cashier round to show them how to get cash back off their debit cards. What effin part of "Speedy" do you not understand?:frown: What in the world makes you think you're ready to check out if you don't have the item you want and you don't know the price!?!?!??!? |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by hobbes79
(Post 9634655)
I was behind someone at TJ Max once who walked up with a sweater and said "it has no price tag and it's the wrong size - can you find me a large and let me know the price" :huh:
What in the world makes you think you're ready to check out if you don't have the item you want and you don't know the price!?!?!??!? |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 9634641)
Do you line up in a queue, or queue up in a line?
Why am I even answering that anyway, you're just asking to satisfy your own pedantic OCD mind that I use the correct term. |
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