The last visit to the store, the person left a cart between their SUV and a car. Six people are talking by the car. The SUV backs out wedging the cart between their vehicle and the car bumper. We weren’t close enough to see the outcome, but the SUV person just kept on driving. I think they may have had a nice scrape when they got home and blamed it on the asshole parked next to them. This oblivious person was likely one of the cart load in an express lane with no idea how what their PIN is person.
Whenever I’m in an overcrowded elevator, I always ask permission from the person beside me before I discharge a long, plaintive, sputtering chili-fart.
This is the notable exception to the item restriction.
Arrrgh, guys, this is a classic case of DNFTT.
And personally I hate people who yap on their cell phones in the grocery store while they slowly wander the aisles. I understand the utility of grocery store cell phones (“What kind of cereal does your mother like?”) but I don’t want to be stuck behind you in the Grocery Store Rodeo while you find out who Hayden hooked up with last night, OMG!
The real problem is the store. If they had enough lanes open it would not be a problem. But why should I wait in a line that is three customers deep when there is an express line with only one person already in the line? Heck, sometimes there is nobody in the express line.
That’s because no one who qualified to use the express lane wanted to get behind the jackass with the full cart who just went through it.
Well said Kat
That’s cool, I’m also not aware of a law or store policy that says I can’t grab some of your items off the conveyer belt while you’re checking out and throw them merrily across the store to shorten my wait time.
Heaven forbid that you should have to suffer instead of the poor soul behind you that only has a couple of items that he wants to buy. :rolleyes:
I suspect the police who arrive at the behest of store management might disagree with you. But, you’ll have your opportunity to explain your position to the judge–who I also suspect will disagree with you.
I would let that person ahead of me.
Explain how my using the express line affects the length of the express line before I decide to use the express line.
Alright, revise that idea. How about if it’s a 15 item or less lane and 2.5 gets in front of me with 40 things and I only have 5 things, can I take 10 of his things for myself? Technichally they’re not his until he pays for them, right? 
Shaky. Legally, you’re probably ok, although if 2.5" of Stupid complains loudly enough to store management, they may (and would be well within their rights to) ask you to leave the premises. He can also sue you in small claims court, and although he may not win, the cost and inconvenience of defending yourself might make you regret your decision. 
My favorite customers do! I can process a check faster than a credit card, and it doesn’t cost my store 3% to 4% of the transaction. I don’t have to swipe it, punch in the last 4 digits manually, wait for the confirmation, wait for the receipt to print, wait for the customer to sign it. I just check the amount, stamp the back, and we’re done.
Checks are good.
Idiots who don’t start filling the check out until the transaction is done are a problem.
Idiots who don’t even start looking for their checkbook (or credit card, for that matter) until the transaction is completed shouldn’t be allowed out without supervision.
Awesome! So does mine. I get out much faster that way because I don’t have to use that damned flaky mag swipe and wait for the cashier to process stuff. I have everything filled out on the check before she finishes scanning my stuff. When the last item goes through, I fill in the amount before she finishes bagging my stuff. It’s faster than cash, and a lot faster than a credit card.
When people actually know how checks work, they’re the fastest way to go.
Why the fuck has this fucking troll not been fucking banned yet?
And the cheapest, if they know that your store isn’t doing anything but assuming the check is legit and stamping it as “good to go!” Most stores have taken to processing checks through the TeleChek or ChexSystems device to make sure you’re not pawning off some inkjet forgery on your way out with a few hundred bucks in groceries. This step makes check-writing just as long, and sometimes longer, as using a debit or credit card. As another poster pointed out, by the time the cashier is done ringing up my merchandise, I’ve long since swiped, signed, and am just waiting for the receipt to print.
Then again, if your favorite store is using crap magstripe readers, I can see why they wouldn’t want to invest in any check verification devices, either.
Maybe not, but you’re becoming a better one every day.
Why in the world is this 2.5 person still here?
Clearly, you’re too stupid to know what a troll is.
In this day and time, why does it matter if a check is out of state? There are readers that can verify the funds in a checking account from the MICR numbers on the check.
That being said, who still writes checks? Scan your fucking card, put in your PIN and get out of there. Why use paper checks?
And these stores need to help out here. If they put up a sign that says “15 items or fewer” then enforce the policy. Don’t let your cashier stand there silenty while some 87 year old douchebag tries to pay for her 414 items at 5:47p.m. on a Friday. If I stop in for a few items, then I want to get out of there in a reasonable time.
While 2.5 seems to really be out there, if not a troll, he is right on the understaffing. Don’t have 15 checkout aisles, but only 2 being staffed. I am trying to do business with you. Don’t make me wait 15 minutes while the lone cashier checks out the only two other people in the store.
Anecdote: I was checking out at Publix last week and a lady came behind me in the express lane with about 30 items (limit 15). The cashier told her that he would check her out this time, but next time he would refuse her at the express lane. She apologized, saying that the “lines were too long at the other registers” thereby cancelling her apology.
The cashier said, “Yes ma’am, lines are shorter in the express lane because people have fewer items. If I allow people to come here with large orders, then the line will be long here as well. I won’t allow it.”
I burst out laughing. This guy was his own fucking Roscoe P. Coltrane of his express lane. I shook his hand and told him the world needed more people like him. The lady was embarrassed as hell…
Actually that’s an interesting question. Putting aside the throwing issue, which creates a hazard to people and property, is there any law that says you cannot simply remove another shopper’s items from the conveyer belt and put them back on the shelf?
In the right case, that might be a fun way to get back at someone who breaks the “15 items” rule.
Maybe someone needs to put Jimmy Justice on the case.