Pick N’ Save in Milwaukee suburb accepts your card anytime during the process; P n S in Madison makes you wait until all purchases are entered.
I’m probably at the extreme end of the bell curve: I value efficiency, and one big part of that for me is that I’m aware of the other people around me and I refuse to unnecessarily waste their time if I can possibly avoid it. In turn, I appreciate it when other people extend me the same courtesy.
Admittedly, my efficiency-driven need to consider other people’s needs sometimes works to my own disadvantage. At my last job, which was seasonal in nature, I eventually gave up trying to collect unemployment benefits during the slow seasons, even though I was technically entitled to it. Why? Despite the fact that I specifically indicated “Temporary Reduction of Hours”, meaning that I was simply working much less, not that I had been “laid off” (so I was entitled to partial benefits), and provided a date when I expected to return to full-time work, the state Employment Security Department seemed completely unable to grasp the meaning behind the very option it provided on its forms. And thus they would require me to apply for three new jobs every week for which I claimed benefits, which should not have been required under their own rules. Never mind that my then-current job was a good union job, with better pay than the local non-union jobs in my field, plus health insurance and a 401k plan that I would not get from non-union employers, and so there was no way (at the time) that I was going to accept a job elsewhere.
So I stopped trying to get benefits because I refused to waste other employers’ time by applying and interviewing for jobs that I simply wasn’t going to accept. Instead, I just saved up the extra money I earned during the busy seasons and then watched my spending during the slow seasons.
When I was a full-time pedestrian (during a stretch of years in which I went without a driver’s license), I frequently gave up my right-of-way as a pedestrian to let drivers go past before I crossed the street, my reasoning being that my stopping for the cars would slow me down much less than the cars stopping for me would slow them down.
But so many people just seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that there are other people around them. A good example is some of my coworkers at my current job. I’ve lost count of how many times certain of these coworkers have exclaimed, “Oh! You scared me!” because I happened to walk behind them and they turned around and were startled to find me there. This is in a commercial kitchen, where there are people walking around with hot pans and sharp knives, yet these certain individuals seem to be completely unaware of what’s going on around them. It’s disheartening when I’m carrying a hot pan to the dish sink, and I give the standard warning, “Behind you!”, only to have the warnee shriek and spin around with arms flailing, risking running themselves right into the very thing I was warning them about. For Og’s sake, be aware of your surroundings!
IN the thread about the USPS machine I said pretty much the same thing, and in general I agree we need to slow down, but in this case I have some sympathy for the OP.
If someone is DONE, with their transaction they can easily pull forward a couple of car lengths and put things away before they drive off. I do it all the time and have never seen an ATM that doesn’t allow for it.
I agree that we are in far too much of a hurry and need to slow down a bit, but another problem I see is that people seem oblivious of the other folks they share the world with and lack basic consideration. If someone is waiting in line behind you, pull forward to adjust your stuff and put things away.
In a related issue, I’ve heard people rant that people in the drive through don’t have everything completely prepared before they drive up. On this I say, slow down. If I need 30 secounds to fill out my deposit slip or do some basic math to get a total, you’ll survive.
Well, you being in a hurry is not their fault or problem. I totally agree that out of basic consideration they should pull forward to put things away but when I catch myself being impatient with others because I’m in a hurry that’s my bad nnot theirs.
Okay then , 20 feet. Did you completely miss the point to focus on the number 10. If I see someone waiting behind me I pull forward to allow them access and then I stop and put my card and cash, and recipts away before I enter traffic. It’s not complicated.
How complicated is it to pull your car forward before you put your money and recipts away, get out your wallet, whatever. I do it all the time.
Look say you’re waiting in line at the theater to buy a ticket, the guy in front of you buys his ticket. He stays in line on front of you at the window while he takes out his wallet counts his chage and then puts it away. Then he checks the time and looks at his ticket to make sure everythings okay.
Is he being considerete of those waiting in line behind him? Could he do all those things after he steps out of line? I agree that we need to slow down, but I think we also need to be aware of others and show a little basic consideration.
I didn’t realize I could swipe ahead of time, but I always have my card out and ready when the clerk gives me the total, If waiting the 2 seconds it takes for me to swipe my card gets on your nerves you have a real problem.
Thank you for your concern! Swiping while waiting will allow the machine to get the approval from the credit card company, saving even more time. Plus, you can swipe, press a few buttons, and put your card away and help with the bagging.
Anyway, you know what really gets on my nerves? People who don’t multi-quote, and reply multiple times in a row to the same thread.
So, what’s the theory about the OP? Sock?
A couple of weeks ago, I saw someone pull up to the ATM driving the wrong way so their passenger could use it! Thankfully I was using a teller.
Even up here in the sticks, we have ATMs that don’t require a deposit slip.
Heh. My father buys me gift certificates to the movies for my birthday and Christmas – I was very disturbed when he bought them while on line for tickets to a movie we were seeing right then, as was a line of people!! We’re not talking an automated purchase; they have to get out a special cash box and record everything by hand. :o :o But I had to pretend I didn’t notice since it was a gift (I was over by concessions). Talk about cringeworthy.
I’m wondering where the ATMs do still require a deposit slip. I haven’t seen one in years.
Actually, at my bank it’s not complicated, it’s just not possible. Once you pull forward far enough for someone else to pull up, you’re blocking the street.
So, I’ve been wondering. As mentioned previously, there’s no pre-swiping going on where I live; you need to know the total before you get approved. How on earth can you get approved without knowing the total? What if I had $100 in my account and groceries came to $110, but at the time of swiping, only $20 had been processed? How does that work?
The transaction doesn’t go through until the cashier hits the total button and you press the “approve” button on the card reader. The reader just holds the card information until then.
When I deposit something in my ATM I have to fill out one of these envelopes.
Every once in awhile I run out of them (I keep a stash in the car but hey - shit happens) so if it takes me fifteen extra seconds to fill it out, them’s the breaks.
Ah. Thank you.
Carry on.
From what I remember (since I haven’t done it in so long), to deposit a check at the ATM at my bank, you just put it in without a deposit slip or even an endorsement and it takes a picture of it and prints it on the receipt. They are called envelope-free ATM’s.
You’re lucky. They’re few and far between around me. And I’m not asking the bank down the street that does accept deposits for my credit union to change their system anytime soon. 
Now this is different than standing there card in hand waiting for the total. It only takes a couple of seconds to swipe card , cash back, accept total.
I try extra hard to be patient with the elderly since I’m headed there soon. Still when an old lady waited until her large order was totaled to start reaching in her purse, and then pulled out a checkbook, I bit my lip.
and if that’s the case nobody behind you is going to expect you to. I’m pretty sure we’re talking about the many drive thrus where it is very possible.