# Inappropriate cashier behavior **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727 "2016-01-21T00:11:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/81 "2016-01-30T02:18:48Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Maybe I’m being petty, but sometimes I manage to let the coons slide off and all over the cashiers station. Of course the cashier needs to retrieve them all and recount to be sure none are missing. I might happen to mention that if the coins were on the bottom that wouldn’t occur. Of course coons should be coins! Darn autocorrect. ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/82 "2016-01-30T02:52:52Z")
Thanks, WhyNot! That’s what it seemed like. I tried to get on Snopes, but I’m in a queue for some reason, and it doesn’t say for how long. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/83 "2016-01-30T03:01:05Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > … Is it the OP’s tattoo comment? I know we all have thicker (inked) skin than that. Clearly I’m in the minority but I feel like people are really irked about this and I’m not getting it. For me, it’s the tattoo in conjunction with the “old enough to know better …”; it sounds like “no better than she should be.” Besides, did no-one else notice the telling detail? There were two people in line in front of her, but when the second line opened (standard practice when the cashiers are sent out to tidy the stock), the OP jumped into that line, instead of allowing the person who had been in line longer move over. That, in my opinion, was the greater offense. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/84 "2016-01-30T03:10:43Z")
> [@svd678](#): > > Thanks, WhyNot! That’s what it seemed like. I tried to get on Snopes, but I’m in a queue for some reason, and it doesn’t say for how long. Just till someone opens another register. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/85 "2016-01-30T03:55:00Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Maybe I’m being petty, but sometimes I manage to let the coons slide off and all over the cashiers station. Of course the cashier needs to retrieve them all and recount to be sure none are missing. I might happen to mention that if the coins were on the bottom that wouldn’t occur. I am going to try very hard not to do that, and fail. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/86 "2016-01-30T13:43:25Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Just till someone opens another register. 😉 Because David and Barbara are telling other posters about their tattoos. (I’m sure many will be scratching their heads about that response) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/87 "2016-01-30T13:49:28Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Because David and Barbara are telling other posters about their tattoos. > > (I’m sure many will be scratching their heads about that response) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/88 "2016-01-30T14:49:09Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > My quibble about chatty cashiers is they try to make up time, hurry me, when I finally get my turn in line. ☹ > > Anyhow, your cashier was probably **Annie X-Mas** by the sounds of it. 😛 > [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Joking or not, it can be taken as a personal insult, let’s try to avoid them. Thank you, **Idle Thoughts**. It was not me. No tattoos. It’s okay at my job to talk to people while you are ringing them up, or afterwards if no one is in line. Maybe the OP should have said something to the cashier first. Even a gentle “Could you please open up another register” would have probably yielded results. OTOH, it’s perfectly acceptable for customers to think I want to listen to their side of a cell phone conversation, which also holds up the line. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/89 "2016-01-30T15:28:54Z")
> [@svd678](#): > > Since this involves misbehaving cashiers I bring it here; but if it is a highjack, I apologize. This morning at coffee a fellow told the story of a young man at a major market who brought his purchases to a cashier, who was wearing a head scarf. She told him that before she could help him he had to put the cross he was wearing out of sight. A manager came along and confirmed that he had to do that to receive service. He dropped his goods and walked out, as did those in line behind him. The narrator’s reaction interpretation was “hurray for our side - we won one!” In thinking it over I think it sounds like the stories the bigoted tell to prove they are right. Has anyone heard of this story? I haven’t tried Scopes. Some elements seem highly unlikely. Well, I occasionally get a customer who demands a male cashier. We always have some such guy available to handle the customers who will not do any type of business with a woman. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/90 "2016-02-01T01:14:53Z")
My standard response to any inordinate delay ahead of me is to start whistling the “Final Jeopardy” music. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/91 "2016-02-25T03:12:37Z")
Update: I was there again today, and saw the woman out on the floor, so she didn’t lose her job. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-cashier-behavior/743727/92 "2016-02-25T04:56:53Z")
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