“Are you sure you wanted these extra large condoms? Were the smalls all sold out?”
If I change my routine at a store, there’s a decent chance I will forget to buy something, even if it’s something I buy every other time at that store. I would guess that about 50% of the time, if someone has enough of a pattern for the cashier to note it, that if they come to the register without that item it’s either a mistake on their part or the store is out (or appears to be out) of the item.
ETA: OP, you’re projecting more than a drive-in theater.
What’s PMDD?
I hate the upselling, too. It irritates me because I know it’s not helpful, it’s upselling. The same way cashiers trying to use my name at Safeway irritates me, because it’s not to improve customer service, it’s to give the illusion of customer service.
They have vibrator stores now? Sweet! Now I know where I can do one-stop Christmas shopping this year.
I’m picturing this:
Customer: Latte please.
Coffee lady: Here you go.
Customer: (sips, then spit take) What?! This isn’t nonfat! Are you trying to kill me?
Repeat about 20 times. You can’t win.
Pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder. Really bad PMS, basically.
Oh, I’m only 3 for 10. Come on, old gal, you can do better than that!
Whenever someone confronts me about my drinking I tell them I don’t drink because I have to, I drink to quiet the voices in my head, and if they knew what the voices were telling me to do, they wouldn’t want me to listen. That usually ends the conversation toot sweet.
I’m sure that every minimum-wage restaurant employee he dickishly hassled found his “point” extremely profound.
I had a similar experience as the OP this morning, which had me close to overreacting. I’m glad I perused this thread so I can see that that (my potential overreaction) was actually the case.
You see … usually at work, I’ll swing down to the cafeteria somewhere around 9:00 to 9:30 and get a Fresca. This morning, I was in a little late and I hit the cafeteria at around 8:45 just to grab a muffin before heading up to my desk. I had a Dunkin Donuts coffee with me and the entirely too bubbly for my tastes cashiere looks at me and says in a completely believable faux-concerned kind of way:
“Are you feeling ok?”
“Uh … yeah … I guess” followed in my head by, “what the fuck are you talking about?”
“No Fresca this morning?”
I gave a equally impressive faux-chuckle and responded, “Not yet … little early still.”
But I was thinkng, shut the fuck up, I’m sorry I give you a steady stream of business with my soft-drink buying schedule, but I’ll thank you to not make fun of me for it.
Then I read this thread and realized she was just being friendly. She’s still too fucking bubbly, though, I’ll stand by that one.
I go to the local 7-11 every morning for coffee. The first time I came in with the cast on my arm and got my refill, I was fumbling for the 27 cents in change to go with my dollar. The clerk had the gall to notice this and announce “You are really having trouble handling that change. While you are wearing that cast, your refills are only a dollar.”
I had never been so insulted in my life. Imagine, implying that I couldn’t afford the 27 cents in change.:rolleyes:
She wants you.
I worked at McDonald’s a long time and hated suggestive selling. Unfortunately it did work enough that I understood why we had to do it. I still hated doing it though.
He should’ve taken his happy ass to someplace that sold Coke then. For most people the substitution was OK buty you had to ask becaus for some, like your dick professor, it wasn’t so they would get something else. I seem to remember it was a bigger deal for Diet Coke/Diet Pepsi than the regular cola though.
On preview I’d just like to come back to this and say what a fucking dick. Obviously the high and mighty College Professor is so fucking superior he has to berate the (probably near) minimum wage worker for pointing out that he ordered something they don’t have but would he like this other thing that is so very close.
After all this time I’m surprised at how much that pissed off.
But he didn’t say anything like that. It wasn’t like he said, “You know alcohol is really bad for you, right?” He just pointed out that your normally get something different. If you normally get a big bottle of laundry detergent and you get the smallest one today and the clerk asks if you’ve made a mistake, is that the same situation to you? If the only reason that it’s different is the fact that alcohol is involved, maybe it’s just a sensitive subject for you.
Oh, sorry, I see now that your problem is illiteracy. We all got the OP: The clerk reminded you of what you usually get and you being a bit touchy about your drinking problem over reacted. So there’s really no need to keep parsing the poor minimum wage bastards comment in an attempt to show us your interpretation of the implied value judgement. I get it, I just think you are wrong.
Nor do I in fact I will sometime initiate it. I like people and I enjoy talking to people I haven’t met. As far as up-selling, it’s very easy for me to say no.
Did you remember to pop your collar when you went out to the sports bar? Otherwise people might not know you’re a college or still-hasn’t-grown-out-of-college asshole.
Wait, you are a professional wine writer, and female. How you doing? Are you single?
Then she must be a total slut; she apparently wants everybody.
Much hotter than an unprofessional wine writer.
cd /pub
more beer
Yep. I don’t mind if someone is chatting with me, as I’m chatting right back.
I like people. Cashiers are people, and generally they’re trying to get through an annoying day filled with boredom and tedium and the occasional surly customer.