Ah good, a mild related rant to mine. The people who get my blood pressure rising are those who after paying and having their bags packed, insist on standing there for a good ten second to pack their purse, wallet, handbag, just to be sure everything’s in there in good order, while everyone else waits to move on in the queue. It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the look of seriousness on their face that’s mixed in with a tinge of ill temper towards those behind them.
This happens in the UK too. :rolleyes:
My worst experience was in the ‘10 items or less checkout’.
The person in front of me actually did have 10 items. But that was the end of their competence or consideration. :smack:
After all the items had been rung up came the ‘someone is talking to me - what do they want? double-take’ 
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What - you want me to … pay? I’d better get my purse out of … my handbag then. Now where is that purse?
Who could have known I would need this? 
Ah here it is - oh, no it’s not.
Ah here we are.
Now let’s open the purse. But first let’s tidy my handbag.
How much was it again?
That much?
Perhaps I’d better pay by cheque. (Gets out cheque book.) Now how much is in my account?
Perhaps I’d better pay by cash after all.
Silly me.
At this point they turn to the queue.
“I’m not keeping you, am I?”
(I felt like saying “Yes indeed you are. Just how stupid are you?” But contented myself with a mild glare.)
Turns back to cashier.
How much was it again?
…
I can’t go on.
Suffice to say that when my turn came I had added up all my purchases, had the correct money ready and then went home and ate chocolate.
:snort: Good point. I’ll take their screams of agony and the scent of their burning flesh as payment.
Not if I patent it first! MUAHAHAHA! 
Yeah, it’s always nice to see someone so eager to use a check to pay for a fucking $2.86 transaction. No joke, people pull that crap all the time at my job.
Ooooh, DO elaborate please?
That’s what I’d like to know also! I almost never use cash, and I generally use the self-checkout (unless it’s obvious that the technologically challenged have taken over that area), but at the store I frequent, the clerk will often hand back the receipt and bags as the customer is trying to fit the debit card and rcpt back into the purse, (which, by the way, will NOT fit on top of the tiny little shelf near the POS machine, so the customer is standing there already trying to balance the purse and holding the wallet).
So, in the interest of not losing my debit, and ID card, or dropping things all over the place (since I only have two hands) my debit, ID and “rewards” card go back in their pockets, (I usually try to do this at the same time I’m using the POS), the rcpt gets shoved inside and the whole thing goes in the purse.
I sure don’t stand there reorganizing everything, and in the rare instances where I pay cash, I dump the change in the bottom of my purse and fish it out later, but it does take a FEW seconds to at least put ones debit and ID back.
I used to not care and just shove it all in the bottom of the purse somewhere to be worried about later, (since, like the OP I’m almost always in an all-fired hurry and HATE waiting), but I had to replace my driver’s license 3 times (at 20 bucks a pop for replacements), in about a year’s time from doing just that while showing the DL to the gate clerk as I was boarding planes.
After that, by DAMN my ID, CCs and debit cards are going back in their pockets immediately after I finish using them, and unless you want to pay for their replacement, do all the calling to cancel and replace the ccs and debit card, you can wait the 3 extra seconds it takes me to put them away.
Either that, or make the local stores actually HAVE a place that person can do that at the checkstand.
You know you can slide your debit card at the beginning of the transaction, enter your PIN, and have the card back in your wallet before the cashier gets done scanning your purchases? Then all you have to do is approve it at the end. You can also ask them to put the receipt in the bag. And who asks for an ID with a debit card anymore?
I don’t know how any McDonald’s order taker can stand the gap-jawed ummmmmmmmmmm of patrons looking at the menu above without stabbing someone with a straw.
Shouldn’t we (as a collective and individual) have the entire menu committed to our DNA, right down to the seasonal items?
I’m really surprised more fast food workers haven’t gone postal.
Actually, you can’t do that at the store I work for, the customer has to wait until I’m finished ringing them up. I have approximately ten thousand customers a day swipe their card at the beginning, and I have to ask them to wait until the end. I don’t mind, though, 'cause I know a lot of stores do it the way you described.
This in itself will not get you a free ride into Heaven.
Sorry, but I had a flashback to that stupid credit card ad where all the zombies are going through the sandwich shop in perfect robotic order, when an actual human creates epic chaos by using paper money to pay for his lunch.
Cash good.
But it has Powerhouse as the music, so it’s not all bad.
My favorite customers are the ones who have to fish in their purse to get their wallet, go through their wallet to get the right card(and generally decide at the last minute they want to use their OTHER Visa card) and as soon as they finally give it to me, the wallet gets snapped shut and tossed in the purse.
Five seconds later when I’ve swiped the card? Half go through the above rigmarole to put it back, the other half just drops it in the purse to float free. I really have to question why they didn’t just leave the wallet open and ready to receive the card back.
Oh really? And how, pray tell do you suggest I do that when I’m holding a basket with one hand and my purse with the other?
Second item, nope, doesn’t always work with our POS’s though on the rare occasions I don’t use the self checkout (I mentioned that I usually use those in my post too), I do try to do that. Usually what happens is that the machine craters and I end up having to re-do the whole transaction.
And as I said in the post, I do try to put the cards in as I’m finishing the POS transaction, but again, holding a purse and balancing the wallet with one hand on that tiny little shelf (yeah, don’t I wish our checkout stands had those fold out thingies), while I try to hand the clerk my rewards card and ID and push buttons with the other, and you don’t DARE try to put your cards back as the machine beeps at you to choose cash back or no cash back, the clerk will stand there all tappy-footing and making that sucky tooth noise!
Rcpts go in the purse so I can take it out later and use it for entering into MSmoney. As I said in my post, I don’t file it alphabetically or anything, I just shove it in the wallet.
Third question, Our stores sometimes ask for ID (again, this was noted in my post, that it was “when they do”). If you’ll notice, I did NOT defend the lady in the OP, but a person does need a few seconds and without anywhere to put things down during the transaction, you do the best you can. And in the interest of NOT having my debit card go flipping out of my hand, due to not having enough hands to hold and do everything in the nanosecond the clerks sometimes demand, and landing under a display shelf of gum and candy or whatever, I’ll take that few seconds to put it away rather than try to balance my opened wallet, purse AND the three grocery bags the clerk just handed me.
Lastly, as I also said in my post. I’m impatient as hell to GET done and get out of the store. So it’s not like I’m doing any of this in slow motion or anything.
See if this works.
You know exactly which cards you need to make a purchase at a certain store, right?
Only bring those items into the store with you - in your pants pocket or whatever suitable location will keep them safe for the half-hour you shop.
Ideally you’d only need your store card, CC and ID. Three very slim items that will fit comfortably in most pockets. No purse necessary to drag around the store, balance on the pad thingy at the checkout, or to be mindful of someone stealing.
Not to pick on you personally, but why in heavens name do you have to hold your purse? Mine comes with this neat little strap that goes on my shoulder so I can have two free hands to use. I can even reach into it to grab stuff out or put stuff in without removing it from it’s perch.
Then again, I don’t keep my debit card in my wallet in my purse, it’s in a special holder in the purse. It’s just an easy grab, swipe, and then stash.
Are you crazy? Woman can’t just leave her purse behind. She needs all the stuff she carries around. What if she needs to jump-start a nuclear reactor or castrate a horse? Why else would she lug around that huge bag?
I use mine to carry all my husband’s crap around.
Because it’s part of the outfit, dammit!!!
When I’m grocery shopping, I use a carriage even if I’m only getting a few things, specifically so that I’m *not * trying to juggle a basket along with the rest of my stuff. The purse goes into the child seat of the carriage, open. When I get to the register, the cash or card is in hand, the bagger throws my stuff in the carriage, and my hands are free to put my change or card back in my bag and be on my way in 3 seconds or less.
Elightenment. What you’ve described. You’re at the next level.