# Just check my groceries, please. Without the fucking commentary. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801 "2011-02-01T18:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/41 "2011-02-01T21:26:05Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Well, I guess you _could_ call, “Please don’t return it with the pages stuck together,” a comment. Well, they frown at me when I try to use the library computers for online porn… ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/42 "2011-02-01T21:27:03Z")
Well, I like talking to cashiers or anyone else in the course of mundane errands. It keeps us from being too caught up in ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/43 "2011-02-01T21:33:33Z")
_No_, I’m not a member of your Super-Shopper Sucker’s Club and _no_, I don’t want to hear the benefits and _no_, I don’t want to donate a dollar to the Walkathon for Halitosis and (_for the love of all that’s holy, Walgreens_) _NO_, I don’t wish to buy your crappy upsell-of-the-day candy bar and never, ever will, and I really don’t give a shit that I get some peanut brittle or Hershey’s knock-off for free if the cashier forgets to pitch me, because believe you me, _not being hassled about it every fucking time_ would be reward enough! ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/44 "2011-02-01T21:42:43Z")
If you ever feel a little embarassed buying condoms, you can turn the tables if you can find a checkout aisle manned by a Muslim girl. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/45 "2011-02-01T21:51:26Z")
Go back to the store and buy some prune juice, bath salts and some adult diapers. Then come back to the dope and post her comment. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/46 "2011-02-01T22:03:44Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > When I was a cashier, I retold a joke by cartoonist Sidney Harris: A car mechanic is talking to a customer, and the mechanic says, “Actually, I started out in quantum mechanics, but somewhere along the way I took a wrong turn.” The customer didn’t get it, and was in fact, insulted. Why? Was he a relativist? ---
**Author:** ![Any\_Other\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Any\_Other\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Any_Other_Name)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/47 "2011-02-01T22:04:36Z")
> [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](#): > > I’m going to half-heartedly endorse this pitting…and add, please don’t comment on the books I’m checking out from the library. I got SUCH a look from the elderly woman at the Library when I asked her to get the book I’d reserved, Glen Friedman’s **Fuck You Heroes**. And I didn’t even tell her the name, I just told her I had a book on the reserve shelf. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/48 "2011-02-01T22:09:03Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > More to the OP: I too don’t need any chit-chat, or comments about my purchases. Just ring me up, and let me get the hell out of there. While certainly folks don’t need comments about their purchases, what’s wrong with a little chit chat? I mean are we so isolated these days that we spurn any human contact, even the most innocuous? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/49 "2011-02-01T22:16:50Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > While certainly folks don’t need comments about their purchases, what’s wrong with a little chit chat? I mean are we so isolated these days that we spurn any human cont- Just give me fuckin’ change, please. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/50 "2011-02-01T22:32:16Z")
> [@Meatros](#): > > My guess is that cashiers are, for the most part, going to be a thing of the past - what with the advent of ‘self checkout’. So soon you will not have to worry about comments. At the Giant I currently go to, I haven’t had a cashier ring me up in over a year. I only use self check out if I have just a couple items and there’s no line. Often I notice a long line at the self check out and cashiers just sitting there. Worse, I’ll see someone who is checking out their own large order who can’t seem to do more than a single item every 15s. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve gotten in line for a cashier at roughly the same time as someone else at a self check out and I end up getting out faster and with less effort on my part. It seems like the same sort of strange phenomenon where I’ll see the drive-through window at a fast food place backed up, but I’ll walk in and there’s no line. On the plus side, maybe it will reduce the need for cashiers so there will be less sassy ones. > [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > More to the OP: I too don’t need any chit-chat, or comments about my purchases. Just ring me up, and let me get the hell out of there. Again, as I said up thread, that cashier was out of line, but it’s nice to get a little random human interaction. If I can get my stuff scanned and have a conversation that’s at least marginally on the plesant side of neutral, I’d prefer that to just hearing the annoying beep of the scanner. Sure, sometimes I’m in a hurry and a conversation seems to add a bit of time, even if it doesn’t, but that’s hardly a normal situation for me. Honestly, the number of responses akin to “shut up and ring me up” is kind of depressing for the disdain it shows for people in those types of jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/51 "2011-02-01T22:33:15Z")
Wow, some of you have series issues. Lighten up – oh my god, someone is TALKING TO ME!!! > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > _No_, I’m not a member of your Super-Shopper Sucker’s Club and _no_, I don’t want to hear the benefits and _no_, I don’t want to donate a dollar to the Walkathon for Halitosis and > > (_for the love of all that’s holy, Walgreens_) > > _NO_, I don’t wish to buy your crappy upsell-of-the-day candy bar and never, ever will, and I really don’t give a shit that I get some peanut brittle or Hershey’s knock-off for free if the cashier forgets to pitch me, because believe you me, _not being hassled about it every fucking time_ would be reward enough! Trust me, the cashier hates having to ask about it, just as much as you have to listen to it. Complain to the manager about it – don’t take it out on the poor cashier. I might comment on purchases, but it was more like, “oh, this looks good”, or “Oh, this is my FAVORITE brand!” Stuff like that. Seriously. If you don’t like people talking to you, hire someone else to do your shopping. I once had a woman tell me that the reason she was buying cookies was because she was “PMS’in’ it.” No, I didn’t ask her anything about her purchase, she just said it out of the blue. The stock boy standing next to me turned bright red. As for the OP: yes, the cashier was out of line. But dude, you have some serious anger issues. Perhaps that drink will help you chill out. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/52 "2011-02-01T22:45:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Trust me, the cashier hates having to ask about it, just as much as you have to listen to it. Complain to the manager about it – don’t take it out on the poor cashier. Oh, I’m under no delusion that all their cashiers spontaneously decided to proselytize for Palmer brand ersatz chocolate, or whatever the hell it is. Nor do I seethe visibly or audibly to the conscripted candymonger’s face. But while you’re here, would you like to try some of my homemade crunchy fudge nuggets? 2 bags for the price of 1! ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/53 "2011-02-02T00:18:40Z")
Whenever I am buying personal female-related or similar products, I make sure to choose the checkout line with the 17-year old male cashier. Then I’m sure he is not going to say anything. At least out loud. To me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/54 "2011-02-02T02:49:01Z")
Checkout dudes of any age seem to be way less likely to want to strike up a chat than checkout women are. In my experience, anyway. I tend to aim for their lanes when possible, for this reason. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/55 "2011-02-02T02:50:36Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Thank og my library has self-checkout. Not that I check out things with mostly-naked women, but still. They let mostly naked women into your library?! ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/56 "2011-02-02T03:37:39Z")
Once a cashier actually stopped ringing up my purchases so she could page through the magazine I was buying. She even turned it to face me a few times so I could see pages that she thought were interesting. I just don’t understand how anyone could think that was ok. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/57 "2011-02-02T03:43:43Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > They let mostly naked women into your library?! Behind the counter. But they still have their hair up and glasses on so they’re still ugly. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/58 "2011-02-02T04:10:42Z")
> [@moejoe](#): > > Once a cashier actually stopped ringing up my purchases so she could page through the magazine I was buying. She even turned it to face me a few times so I could see pages that she thought were interesting. > > I just don’t understand how anyone could think that was ok. Maybe she’s been watching too much Saturday Night Live. Did she run back into the store to get a copy for herself? ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/59 "2011-02-02T05:46:19Z")
Nothing like the internet for finding people who are gravely offended by the smallest bits of everyday human interaction. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-check-my-groceries-please-without-the-fucking-commentary/569801/60 "2011-02-02T06:11:19Z")
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