# Grocery Store Rant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365 "2002-12-13T00:02:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/41 "2002-12-14T00:32:04Z")
Easy solution to the change-on-top-of-bills problem: Hold out only your thumb and forefinger, making sure you have three fingers curled to your palm. They **can’t** give you coins that way. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/42 "2002-12-14T01:48:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Suspenderzzz \* > \*\*I hate that when they tell you to have a nice day. It’s so phony and meaningless. They really couldn’t care less about what kind of day you’re having. It’ s as meaningless as saying “bless you” when someone sneezes. Saying these things is a knee-jerk reaction without any kind of thought behind it whatsoever. When I lived in the South, I got this “have a nice day” business all the time. My usual response: “Well, I wasn’t planning on it, but if you insist.” > > Next week is going to be a major pain in the ass around here. But Have A Nice Weekend, everyone, anyway. I know I wil. 😃 \*\* As someone who tells people to have a nice afternoon/evening all the time at work, I have to say that some people are very weird about just giving them their change and then walking off (we don’t have a permanently stationed cashier most of the time). Especially if you’ve just spent any time at all helping them find something or answering a question. You just need some kind of closing, and to just say “Goodbye” sounds strange. And “Have a nice afternoon,” is better than “Fuck you, buddy,” no matter how much I’d like to say it or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/43 "2002-12-14T01:57:15Z")
Truth be told – I don’t care about change and bills in my hand at the same time, here’s what irks me (not as much as I let on in the OP, I just had nothing else really pissing me off that day): The cashier usually takes out my change and bills, gets it ready to go, but doesn’t give it to me right away. Instead she holds onto it as she rips off the receipt and the little coupon thingie you get too and fits them right in there with the bills. I keep my bills folded in my pocket, not in my wallet – I’m a grab, fold, stuff and go kinda guy. I don’t really care about the receipt, and it’s a pain to fumble with it. I’m buying a $2 cup-o-soup, not a DVD player. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be returning it. On the other hand … like it’s really upsetting my world that I have one more loose piece of paper in my life. Anybody who thinks I wrote this OP because I’m actually loosing my shit (heh … turd burglar) over this is a nincompoop. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/44 "2002-12-14T02:34:16Z")
I always handed people their coins first, then their money, then their receipt. I didn’t rush it-I let them have some time to put their coins and bills in their wallet, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/45 "2002-12-14T04:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*I guess the fire spread. \*\* Best comeback ever. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/46 "2002-12-14T04:17:02Z")
[Thoughtfully] Actually, at least 60% of my store’s customers use debit or credit cards, so most of the time, all I have to deal with is asking them whether to put their receipt in their hand or their bag. We’re required to say something nice when we finish a transaction. I think it sounds phony, too, but I have to… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/47 "2002-12-14T04:20:25Z")
I’ve had people jokingly say they don’t want a nice day. So I say, “Okay, then, have a lousy day!” And then they thank me! Hehehe…a sense of humor is always appreciated. Unless it’s the old, “oops, doesn’t scan-it’s FREE!” ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/48 "2002-12-14T08:16:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andymurph64 \* > \*\*particlewill, where at in Nodak? \*\* Fargo, which isn’t so icy cold lately. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/49 "2002-12-14T08:18:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*Same thing goes if I write a check. \*\* You write a check in a grocery line??? You inconsiderate @#!@^\*(!@#$!&\*\*fuck, fuck, fuckkitty, fuck, fuck, shit, goat-loving, chunder-headed, dumpster diver!! Aaarghh!! Christ on a stick, they have these plastic cards that ‘debit’ money out of the same account as that cob-web covered check you just pulled out of your ass, and it doesn’t have to be notarized by every freakin’ manager in the place after having x-rayed every piece of ID on you (and, “No”, your ID from “Triple X Video” isn’t acceptable!)and taken a DNA sample or stamped with the one stamp that is down at the far end of the freakin’ building. Freakin’ hell. Lucky they don’t allow us to pack heat in Canada. “BANG” (rest of people in line cheer). Sheesh…😉 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/50 "2002-12-14T12:36:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*Anybody who thinks I wrote this OP because I’m actually loosing my shit (heh … turd burglar) over this is a nincompoop. \*\* Well, I guess I’m just a nincompoop. There haqve been plenty of stupid rants following similar trends before, and having worked in retail, I’ve seen people get incredibly heated over a lot more trivial things. The fact that others jumped on the bandwagon in a not-so-over-the-top way lead me to believe this was a legitimate rant by one of the many hundreds of people whose eyes I just wanted to put a bolt between. Sorry I missed the humor there, guy, but like I said…I’ve seen people become a lot more heated about shit a lot more stupid than this, and honestly, it ain’t that big a deal. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/51 "2002-12-14T13:35:12Z")
Oh my god, I don’t even see how you noticed this. I’m still going over my mental files, trying to find out anything, anything a clerk has ever done with money and a receipt that annoyed me, and I’m still not coming up with anything. I just jam it into my pocket and sort it out later. The fate of the world does not repose on what pocket my bills are in. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365/52 "2002-12-15T05:25:55Z")
**Jack Batty** , that cracked me up. You write funny. 😃 Maybe you could get your groceries delivered next time…? Then if they hand you the stuff all at once, you can at least toss it on a hall table or something without fear of losing anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-store-rant/142365.md?page=2)