And I pity your desire to belittle someone over something like this.

Of course it doesn't rise to the level of losing your job or your house burning down, but as a day to day event it definitely qualifies as an irritating PITA event.

There is always a little good in everything though. In this case it gave you an opportunity to be rude and belittle me. Glad you got your satisfaction.

I'm an idiot when it comes to picking the best line at the grocery. I seem to get stuck behind similarly aggravating shoppers fairly regularly, and end up painfully watching the next lane over clear out quickly.

I'm quite sure you could summon the Lord to bless that new computer and it will work fine for you for the next 10 years. He's got quite a bit of power you know.;)

I was at the grocery store the other day where in the aisle next to me an impatient man started ringing up his stuff in the self check line before the fat old broad before him had started bagging hers. I'm not sure what his plan was, but the woman started bagging his stuff as well and putting it in her cart I guess to teach him a lesson. This provoked an incident I was fortunate enough not to wittness past the initial exchange of words.

Took my loaf of bread and GTFO of there quickly. Good move not calling her out, it doesn't pay to provoke a fat old broad, they are always ready to finish whatever is started, like a rhino taking a defensive stance

Stop press:-

Relative of the Adams Family inexplicably beaten to death with contents of her shopping bag in parking lot...

I commend you on your patience Brian.
At least she wasn't driving around in an electric shopping cart!:eek: Talk about.......ahhh.... it's not worth getting into.:rolleyes:

I always use the self checkout....anywhere. But sometimes that gets to be a challenge. Taking orders from a talking machine!!! :mad::mad::o

I'm torn both ways. I like the independence of the self-checkout and will always take it in HD because it's empty.

But, I rarely take it at the grocery store because it is definitely slower than the cashier, provided the cashier has no line or is just finishing with a single customer. Vegetables at the self-checkout take forever...........you must lookup the code.

Where I shop 4046 is vine ripened tomatoes & 4664 is Gala apples. ;) Or is it the other way around? :confused::o
Like you, at HD & WM always self checkout.

He is the ONLY One who could make a pc last for 10 years. :eek::eek::eek::D

Robert, I do hope you're wearing that shirt with pride.

Having worked in a market and other retail, this thread story happens every hour of every day. Cringe at these:

"oh, wait. I have a penny."

"I have to hang up now"

"Where did my checkbook go? Oh, there it is, what's today's date . . ."

"I think I have a coupon."

In Walmart a couple weeks ago. Fat old lady with an O2 tank in a scooter attended by her husband who was using a walker had completely blocked an aisle. The item I needed was just beyond them, so I put my cart well to the right and walked around them. I had to say excuse me to get Mr. Walker to stagger a bit so I could get around him. As I was picking out my item they decided to move upstream and Mrs. Scooter literally pushed my cart halfway up the aisle with her scooter before figuring out how to get around it.
I always use the self checkout even with large buys as checkout lines give me the willies and I don't like WM's system of putting only a couple items in each bag. Sure enough, up behind me comes Mr.Walker and his well oxygenated crone. Mr. Walker actually starts bumping my cart with his support structure. I look at him and he says these checkouts are for people who only have a few items. He's got six giant bales of grownup diapers in the Mrs.' cart. I smiled and pointed and said you can stand there and wait and piss yourself some more or you can go to THAT machine RIGHT THERE that nobody's using, but bump my cart one more time and we'll be in a jackpot. They moved. People are rude and getting more so.

I pay in exact change if I can, don't like keeping coins around. If people whine about the extra 10 sec, it still takes less time than cretin card authorization and signature ;)

What people?

Are these people still walking around in NYC............or cowering in a corner?:D

Wait, you've met a New Yorker who didn't kvetch about something at least 20x a day?