Of course coons should be coins! Darn autocorrect.
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.
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.
Just till someone opens another register. 
I am going to try very hard not to do that, and fail.
Because David and Barbara are telling other posters about their tattoos.
(I’m sure many will be scratching their heads about that response)
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.
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.
My standard response to any inordinate delay ahead of me is to start whistling the “Final Jeopardy” music.
Update: I was there again today, and saw the woman out on the floor, so she didn’t lose her job.
Didn’t try hard enough?