I think they actually require the clerks at Trader Joe’s to say something about at least one item in your cart. It’s always just “How is this?” or “That’s my favorite” or some such thing, though, so I don’t really care.
I do get ticked at more personal comments, though.
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Sounds like exactly what you did. You should have called her out on it.
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Um…I did call her out on it.
[QUOTE=Otto]
I eally don’t think calmly explaining to the cashier making an inappropriate and possibly if not probably homophobic remark that there are indeed people who care about this couple and others similarly situated (according to the story, 6% of all LGBT couples in the US are bi-national) constitutes “getting [my] panties in a wad.”
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Nor do I. But your OP sure did.
I may have to adopt the phrase “Shut up and scan” for use in selected supermarket situations.
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
Nor do I. But your OP sure did.
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Your panties must be the sheerest silk and lace, if you think the OP constitutes panty-bunching.
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
“How am I doing? It’s none of your fucking business how I’m doing! How I’m doing is you need to shut the fuck up and take my money, you nosy cunt!”
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[QUOTE=LurkMeister]
A few weeks ago I was stocking up on my breakfast yogurt because it was on sale, and as she was running them past the scanner the cashier said something like "You like yogurt, don’t you?’
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I get the same thing when I try to buy a lot of bottled carbonated artificially-sweetened water. “Someone’s thirsty!” :rolleyes:
How dare those cashiers act like you’re not too good for them and actually try to talk to you. The nerve! And to make jokes about your purchases. The horror! Next time you should just tell them off like the lowlife scum they are.
[QUOTE=Otto]
She was old enough to ring up liquor,
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I am almost certain I was ringing up beers as a cashier when I was 16.
-FrL-
[QUOTE=Runs With Scissors]
banana bunker
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Have you submitted that for weird earls? Hilarious!
[QUOTE=Frylock]
I am almost certain I was ringing up beers as a cashier when I was 16.
-FrL-
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It varies from state to state. When I lived in Ohio, they had to call over and get someone who was over 21 to scan alcohol purchases. I quickly learned which cashiers were old enough and got int their lines whenever I could.
[QUOTE=Frylock]
I am almost certain I was ringing up beers as a cashier when I was 16.
-FrL-
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You very well may have, but in my state (Illinois), you would not have been allowed to do so. Whenever I buy beer at the local grocery store and an under-21 is working the register, they have to call over another cashier or manager who is of majority age to scan the item.
[QUOTE=vetbridge]
I always get questions about my produce; what the heck is this, what are you gonna do with this? I embarrassed my SO when I recently said, “It’s a Chinese eggplant, and my sex life isn’t something I’d care to discuss”.
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I get the “what is that” question a lot, but usually all related to finding the right PLU code. Likewise, the “what are you going to use it for” question seems more of a “is it good to eat, and might I like it” sort of thing. I’ve sold at least one cashier on bok choy, that way.
[QUOTE=Frylock]
I am almost certain I was ringing up beers as a cashier when I was 16.
-FrL-
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How long ago were you 16?
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]
For better or for worse, gay rights really isn’t that big an issue to most people who aren’t gay.
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Really? I’m not gay, but I think they’re pretty fucking important, and not just 'cause I have gay friends. It’s an embarrassment to civilized society that they’re being denied rights because, let’s face it, someone thinks (or thinks their god told them) guys having anal sex is ‘icky’ and women are baby machines.
I also hope I’d have felt the same way when interracial marriage was illegal.
[QUOTE=RMutt]
Banana Bunker - Have you submitted that for weird earls? Hilarious!
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What the hell. The only color it doesn’t come in is yellow. So stupid.
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
How dare those cashiers act like you’re not too good for them and actually try to talk to you. The nerve! And to make jokes about your purchases. The horror! Next time you should just tell them off like the lowlife scum they are.
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Q.E.D. what the fuck is your problem?
[QUOTE=Otto]
Q.E.D. what the fuck is your problem?
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People who think cashiers should just shut the fuck up and ring them up like good little drones. What’s your problem?
Nobody cares about my problems… 
You know, I think you have a valid complaint in your OP, Otto. The cashier made a stupid and ignorant comment. I’m with you on that.
But these comments from other posters in this thread about how the cashiers should just shut up and scan your groceries are fucking assholish. Runs with Scissors goes so far as to say “…When a grocery checker is scanning my items, all the person needs to “see” are items of various shapes and sizes. Nothing specific.”
Words fail me. I read QED’s comment as being a response to this sort of attitude towards cashiers. I could be wrong, of course, but it’s possible to think you have a valid point in your OP while at the same time being disgusted by the “just shut up and scan” comments made by some of the others.