This all annoys me too.
What also annoys me, and which I will never understand is why the ATM machine can’t print the receipt while also ejecting the cash?! Instead it ejects the cash pause begins printing receipt pause then spits out receipt. Can’t it be streamlined?
That took way too long to read. I grew impatient.
I would like to add that if you don’t already know what you want to order, don’t go through the drive thru, park and go inside.
If you are ordering for your entire office, call ahead.
I just had this experience with pedestrians in the last half hour. People blocking aisles, blocking sidewalks, coming to a complete stop, stepping in front of me, and generally impeding my progress simply trying to move through the world. This wasn’t just one or two people, either. It was everyone. And on the street, in the plaza, at the ATM, at the 7-Eleven, in the supermarket, and at work.
The air must be filled with stoopid gas today.
I think some people are just like that. I have a friend that I used to go food shopping with until I couldn’t take it anymore. I would make a shopping list, grab a cart, go only to the aisles I needed to go to, got everything on my list and checked out. I’d go back to my car, stow my groceries in the trunk and head back into the store to find him.
He would be in aisle 2. He’d go up and down each aisle whether he needed to or not, looking at everything and buying 2 of everything just in case. And it would take forever.
This is the same guy who I have to tell to get out of the fast lane when he’s driving because too many people are passing us on the right. :rolleyes:
This.
I try to be exceptionally quick when doing any transaction. (Have everything ready and/or know what I need before I get in line). When I know I am going to be a big pain in the butt (like I have some complicated problem to solve with my account), I always tell the person behind me and ask them to go ahead or suggest they try another line.
However, I have become a lot slower since adopting the kids. I have yet to master the art of keeping myself organized and an eye on them. I aspire to get back to my speedy self but until then, I apologize (though I still think I am faster than most other folks now).
My policy when grocery shopping: The wheels of the cart must not come to a complete stop until I get to the checkout line. If I can’t grab what I need as I go past, I really didn’t need it that bad in the first place.
You guys sound like you can get behind me on this irritation - when I’m talking and doing stuff with people who can’t multitask, they’ll slow down, then completely stop doing the task while we’re talking. Makes me want to grab the whatever out of their hand and start it up again. You can peel potatoes and talk at the same time - I promise!
At least he had a system, though.
When I was at the grocery store today what I wanted was something from their hot food station. They usually have chicken wings cooked in various ways, mashed potatoes, gravy, and mac and cheese. When I approached the station, two other people did as well, except not quite, but sort of. It was like they weren’t quite sure it the gravy was going to bite. But they were blocking my access to the little styrofoam trays. And then another person came in, sort of but not really. So there were three people almost in my way, but not actually doing anything.
I wasn’t quite sure what to do, until I noticed that there was maybe one serving of mashed potatoes left. I muscled my way in, screw the indecisive people.
Not that I’m taking their side, but sometimes I just simply have to do more than one transaction at the ATM. I will be prepared when I get to the machine, but its sole purpose in life is not to only be a dispenser for “Quick Cash.” If you happened to come up behind me while I am doing this, and all you need is a quick $20, I really am sorry, but the branch isn’t open right now and I’m going as fast as I can.
And–
Maybe the people at the P.O. think they’ve gone to one of those “Pack and Ship” places that charges for the convenience of doing the packing for you?
Ho boy, you just hit on my major pet peeve.
This seems to happen everywhere there is some type of automated machine. People just turn into deer and freeze in the headlights.
Self checkouts have been around for what, a couple years now? Why can people still not figure these out? The learning curve should be 1st time: this is new and may take me a bit, 2nd time: This seems familiar I think I got the hang of it, 3rd time: congratulations you’re a pro.
So why when there are four of them going and one opens up, I can ring mine up… bag… pay… and leave before any of the other 3 who got there before me leave?
Are these all really first timers?
And then you, who know what you’re doing, get to the self-checkout machine and it freezes up because it doesn’t believe that the item you just bought is in the bag since its weight sensor doesn’t make the proper allowance for whatever it is.
AND the one person who is keeping track of the 8 self-checkout machines is trying to clear the same problem for the poor shnook in the next lane, too.
I’m usually a one transaction guy at the ATM (at most, I’ll check my balance first), but maybe the printout is waiting to include all transaction where there is more than one.
Yes. And please don’t act like you’ve never been to McDonald’s/Wendy’s/Taco Bell/KFC before. You know what’s on the fucking menu! Don’t stare at the board for 5 minutes like an idiot trying to decide between horseshit on a bun with ketchup or chicken shit on a bun with lettuce! It’s all the same.
I haven’t used an ATM in at least five years.
My thing is self checkouts in grocery stores. Just this week I was at my local store, which has been here for close to ten years, and has had self checkout for about the last six years. Even though the sign says “express - less than 15 items” (not that a sign should be needed), there was a woman with an entire cart full of groceries at one station. The bagging area is too small to fit all her things on, so she would try to remove bags and put them in her cart, which of course sets off a warning and shuts down her machine. The one attendant for six machines had to stand next to her for the entire transaction, making it almost identical, only slower, to going through a manned lane.
The tied up attendant then wasn’t able to get cigarettes for the dude on another machine. What part of “self-service” do you not get? And of course there was the mom who just had to let her little kids do the scanning for her.
One of these days I’m going to see an all-out brawl at the self checkouts. I hope I’m a part of it.
The worst is when you get stuck behind someone at one of those things and they’ve got a cart loaded full with produce items. When I’m buying more than just a couple of fruits and vegetables and shit I have the common courtesy to go to a lane with a cashier who can process my weighables quickly and efficiently, instead of spending 20 minutes looking for the name of my produce from the list and typing in the code and repeating 100 times.
Realizing this is MPSIMS and I may be breaking the rules, may I still say, what a bunch of entitled whiners. Waah, people are in front of me and I have to wait! They’re all so stupid and slow! Geez, take a breath already.
Roddy
I’ve given up on the self-service lines. It’s just not worth the lost enamel on my teeth from grinding them in frustration. Even if there is no one else using them I’ll go to a regular check-out line. The self-checkout scanner machines are just too stupid and slow.They make me think destructive thoughts that could get me into serious trouble. It’s just not worth it.
No, you’re just going too fast…or you’re invisible.
Your rant made me laugh btw, because some days are like that. 
This. THIS!
You do not need to let your little precious scan your items. This is not teaching him anything other than How To Piss People Off.
And yes, I will say something if I get stuck waiting for these idiots.