# Presumptuous Cashier at 7 Eleven **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 6, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302 "2010-10-06T23:46:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/21 "2010-10-07T00:37:36Z")
Most of the examples here just sound like people trying to make conversation to me, not any attempt to be rude or insulting. I say take things in the spirit they’re intended. Except for the “diaper” comment that **Jimmy Chitwood** got. That’s just fucking weird and rude. That is ask to see a manager time. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/22 "2010-10-07T00:38:13Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@descamisado](#): > > > > I once boycotted a store for two years because the clerk pulled this. > > And the store went out of business due to the precipitous drop in beer sales. Never said it did nor that was my intention. But, uhm, yeah, they did. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/23 "2010-10-07T00:42:52Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Except for the “diaper” comment that **Jimmy Chitwood** got. That’s just fucking weird and rude. That is ask to see a manager time. Oh, don’t you worry. I cried for hours. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/24 "2010-10-07T00:58:18Z")
Dio, well, to be fair, he _wasn’t_ wearing pants over them that time. Hey, is that a low flying… ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/25 "2010-10-07T01:20:02Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Yes, by pointing out the true fact that you usually buy more beer and were buying less on this occasion, he was absolutely suggesting that you’re an alcoholic. You should have come back later, drunk, and killed him. this is what i would have done. god bless america. fuck the arab obviously calling you a drunk at the seven eleven, lets abuse the 2nd amendment ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/26 "2010-10-07T01:39:36Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Except for the “diaper” comment that **Jimmy Chitwood** got. That’s just fucking weird and rude. That is ask to see a manager time. Don’t worry. He poked the clerk in the eye with his rattle. It made a whooshing sound. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Captain\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/27 "2010-10-07T01:57:28Z")
I used to work in the casinos where people would work three shifts, with the Graveyard (or third shift) not getting off work until 8 AM or so. This girl I knew who worked that shift would say she would go to the beer store at 8:30 AM with the clerk and people giving her stares, like she was an alcoholic. What they don’t realize is that it her off time, and she is going to sleep the afternoon and her drinking a beer at 10 AM is no different than most people having a beer at 7 PM. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/28 "2010-10-07T02:35:47Z")
> [@Aswan](#): > > Then it slowly dawns on me that what he is \*really \*saying is, “I mean, you are an alcoholic, right?” Oh for Pete’s sake. Lighten up Francis, it’s just conversation. And on the off chance he did mean that so fucking what? He’s a fucking 7-11 clerk. > [@](#): > > What I want to tell him is to f#%k the f#%k off. Would it really kill you to write out the word fuck? I mean you were tempted to yell it at a complete stranger in public but you need to f#%k it up here. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/29 "2010-10-07T02:40:39Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > > [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > > > As a professional wine writer, there was a point where I was getting CASES delivered to me. > > Wine AND donut connoisseur? If I wasn’t married… Get in line. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/30 "2010-10-07T02:41:27Z")
Did you ask him if he meant to go to college? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/31 "2010-10-07T02:53:41Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Did you ask him if he meant to go to college? This is only slightly more dickish than coming back drunk to murder him. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/32 "2010-10-07T03:07:21Z")
I don’t know about 7/11, but I know when I worked at McDonald’s as a cashier, I was always supposed to suggest other items that the customer could buy. I always fucking hated doing that because of the looks I would get from the customer. You could see them thinking “WTF? If I wanted an apple pie, I’d ask for it.” But no, the managers were listening, so I did it. I was sixteen at the time, and thus started my looooong hatred of the business community. ---
**Author:** ![Aswan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Aswan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aswan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/33 "2010-10-07T03:12:55Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > > [@Aswan](#): > > > > Then it slowly dawns on me that what he is \*really \*saying is, “I mean, you are an alcoholic, right?” > > Oh for Pete’s sake. Lighten up Francis, it’s just conversation. And on the off chance he did mean that so fucking what? He’s a fucking 7-11 clerk. > > > [@](#): > > > > What I want to tell him is to f#%k the f#%k off. > > Would it really kill you to write out the word fuck? I mean you were tempted to yell it at a complete stranger in public but you need to f#%k it up here. Hmmm. I think if anyone here needs to lighten up, it might be you. Read it again slowly. (If you must, you can move your lips to sound out the hard words.) It wasn’t, “Hey, nice to see ya again. How’s it going?” That’s conversation. It was, “So how come you’re not buying it by the truckload? You on the wagon or something?” You wouldn’t by any chance happen to be a 7-Eleven cashier, would you? Fuck. Are we happy now? ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/34 "2010-10-07T03:13:46Z")
Me: Latte please Coffee lady: Nonfat? Every single time. I don’t go there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/35 "2010-10-07T03:15:38Z")
I think he was just trying to be helpful (or just make conversation), too. Unless he’s quite stupid, I think he just didn’t realize that most people don’t mistake four beers for 18 beers. I’m guessing he spoke without thinking. I prefer my cashiers to say hi, here’s your total, and have a nice day. That’s all I’m looking for in a social exchange with a cashier. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/36 "2010-10-07T03:22:40Z")
Slightly related story: As I’ve mentioned in the past, I don’t drive so I do all my grocery shopping by bus, and I usually have a cart i bring along so I don’t have to carry everything. Yesterday I was running several errands, one of which was to stop off and pick up a few things at Food Lion on the way home. Since the groceries weren’t going to be that heavy and I didn’t feel like lugging the cart around on the early errands, I just stuffed a tote bag into my jacket pocket. When I walked into the Food Lion the cashier near the door, who obviously recognized me, asked me where my cart was. I was not at all offended. Nor was I offended last Saturday when I went to the Harris Teeter (one of my other regular grocery stops) and instead of being there in the morning I slept in and went in the afternoon, and while I was walking through the store one of the staff commented that I was late this week. ---
**Author:** ![Aswan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Aswan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aswan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/37 "2010-10-07T03:31:23Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I don’t know about 7/11, but I know when I worked at McDonald’s as a cashier, I was always supposed to suggest other items that the customer could buy. I always fucking hated doing that because of the looks I would get from the customer. You could see them thinking “WTF? If I wanted an apple pie, I’d ask for it.” See, I understand your discomfort but I don’t think it’s the same thing. There was an implied value judgement. The classic, “Would you like fries with that?” is not objectional. “You know these babies are loaded with calories, right?” might be, especially if you’re Kirstie Alley. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/38 "2010-10-07T03:35:20Z")
You made up the judgment in your own anecdote, though, probably because you’re too drunk to remember which things are things and which things aren’t. “No X this time? You usually get X” is just the cashier observing something that’s true. If that fact being a fact makes you an alcoholic, it isn’t because the cashier observed it. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/39 "2010-10-07T03:47:26Z")
[QUOTE=Deandra “Sweet Dee” Reynolds] Yeah, I absolutely called him a faggot, but he ordered Chardonnay. What was I supposed to do? [/QUOTE] .. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302/40 "2010-10-07T03:50:53Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@Lanzy](#): > > > > Is that really what he was saying or just being friendly? > > Some days that’s almost as annoying. Our local Trader Joe’s must teach their people to be nosy:\*\* “Hey, grillin’ mango sausages, and marinating 'em in beer…”\*\* _“Actually, it’s my next door neighbor that I’m marinating.”_ That was what I said… I wanted to say _“Makin’ copies…”_ > > But just tonight the sorority-girl cashier looked at my lamb tips and wine, and said, **“Ooh, big plans tonight?”** And I finally did it: _“If I did… they’d be none of your business.”_ But I said it with an arched eyebrow and a smile, so she laughed and said she asks because she’s stuck behind the register and lives vicariously through her customers. So then i made up an outrageously cosmopolitan evening involving a casino in Zurich, a microchip heist, an ambassador’s estranged wife… and lamb tips. > > But still, i’ve had to bite my tongue probably twenty times to keep from saying\* “None of your business.”\* I can indeed confirm if you don’t talk to your customers ENOUGH you get in trouble at Trader Joe’s. I can’t believe how rude you were. > [@Captain\_Midnight](#): > > This girl I knew who worked that shift would say she would go to the beer store at 8:30 AM with the clerk and people giving her stares, like she was an alcoholic. What they don’t realize is that it her off time, and she is going to sleep the afternoon and her drinking a beer at 10 AM is no different than most people having a beer at 7 PM. She might have felt self conscious about buying beer at this time but I bet you the “stares” she got were imagined. People who work at stores don’t assume because you are buying beer at 10am you are immediately chugging it as soon as you get home. Most store employees can scratch together enough braincells to understand that people shop for what they want when it is convenient to do so. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presumptuous-cashier-at-7-eleven/556302.md?page=3)