Litoris, what are “waters?” Are you talking about a 6-pack of bottled water?
That clerk was a cunt. I would have complained to the manager.
Bottled water, yes.
The clerk was a typical stereotypical evangelical Southerner who thinks everyone wants to talk about gawd and jaysus becuz we awl loves them. Ugh. I can actually deal with the occasional drive-by christing, but this one took the cake. In all honesty, though, complaining to the store manager would have done shit – it’s just one of those things I let go and vent about later. I won’t go through her line again, though, that’s for sure. There’s one other old biddy that works in the mornings there whose line I will avoid at all costs, too, because she is just a rude, hateful old cunt.
The funny thing is that the teenagers that work there in the afternoons/evenings are some of the most polite clerks I have ever dealt with – go figure, right?
“Drive-by christing.” That’s hilarious! 
A few randoms notes:
I opened this thread only because I wanted to see what “waters” were.
Tsk-tsk on you for being on the phone while they ring you up, but I am giving you a pass because…
You should have just waved at her in that “don’t you see I am talking to someone about whom I care?” wave to shush her and let her fume about it to the poor next sucker in line.
I, for one, am going to start using this from now one. “Do you have any dollar coins?” “Yes, actually, I have 2 suzies, a sackie, and 4 schmuckies.” I hope I can start a new trend!
Yeh, I will take my tsk’s for being on the phone in line. Normally, I wouldn’t have done that, but 1) I had cash, 2) only 1 item, and 3) no need to interact with the cashier. It should have been a 1-minute transaction, tops.
stretch, yeh, but then you need to know which coins you have. The reason loonies and toonies makes sense is that they’re 1 and 2 respectively. No need to distinguish between a buncha $1’s – I kinda like schmuckies, though.
EJsGirl – it’s funny until it happens to you. Drive-by christing is a serious risk to one’s mental and emotional health.
You know, come to think of it-is it possible it wasn’t about religion, but perhaps she thought they possibly could be counterfeit?
How dare you interrupt a perfectly good PALATRXians with such an obvious suggestion?
:rolleyes: <—not at Guin
Her stating she wouldn’t want the money without it on there is ambiguous, but definitely seems more like a statement of faith than one of authenticity.
Well, having been alerted to this problem, I know if it ever happens to me I will be able to immediately retort with “Yeah! Isn’t it great!!! Our government is no longer trying to force religion down our throats like they do in Iran!!. Oh, wait, here it is on the side of the coin. Those sneaky bastards!.”
It’s that still thing you get leadeth beside.
Heathen.
No – there was a run of the coins when they first came out that had smooth sides – no In God We Trust on them at all – those fuckers are worth a fortune. But of course, the religious right screamed that it was some godless heathen conspiracy to remove god from our lives, yadda yadda yadda. The idiot didn’t even know what it was until she inspected it long enough – I doubt she would have suspected it to be counterfeit if it had a picture of Bugs Bunny on the front…
Are people really like this in the South? I’m never leaving California!
Yes, yes, I suppose there are Californians like this too, but I’ve never met one.
Well, having lived everywhere except New England, I have found that there are people like this everywhere – they’re just louder in the South. There are many, many reasons to love Southerners – they’re polite to a fault, usually honest to a fault, great company, fun, funny and tend to be happy to engage you in conversation about anything from genetics to the quality of the local stray dog’s waste output – but like anywhere else, a few bad apples spoil the cider at times.
I hate standing in line behind someone who is on their cell phone chin wagging rather than assisting the clerk with their transaction and moving the line along.
Who would couterfeit coins? Seems like a waste of time.
I’d be saying who gives a damn. Give me my change or receipt if your order was exactly $4.
I’d call the manager up and let him know what a twit he has working there.
I have to say this reminds me of the recent post about the coffee shop employee that was playing with the foam while everybody stared.
Go to the “Inland Empire”, you’ll find one eventually. I used to work at UC Riverside. There was at least one person leaving Christian tracts in the bathrooms (out of frustration I once took one, highlighted all the logical fallacies in red, then put it back where I found it), and once some blowhard with a sign proclaiming some holy something or other started shouting at people around the student union building at lunch hour. 'Cause, you know, shouting at people is the best way to express Christ’s “love” to them.
I’m told my grandma’s church has hatched a plan not to accept dollar coins unless they have IGWT on them. My eyes ache from the rolling.
You should have pointed out the “666” in John Adams’ wig. Look, right there; can’t you see it?