Women at the checkout - That really grinds my gears!

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Not content in making me wait for over 5 minutes while she carried out a 28 point manoeuvre to park her micra car in a space big enough for a chieftain tank, I was unfortunate enough to be behind the same woman at the checkout of my local Sainsburys.

What is it with women that they need to take an extraordinary amount of time to pay for stuff?... It seemed that this woman in particular had to place all her stuff she was buying in specific bags too. Her purse shenanigans were beyond belief though - Search through handbag to find purse, choose card and hand to cashier, Ooops, wrong card, searches through purse for an alternative card, hands to cashier, 'Oh, Wait... I have a nectar card somewhere'... Searches through purse again, retrieves nectar card and hands to cashier... 'Oh, wait, I think I'll pay with cash instead'... Here's the climax though... Cashier does his bit, and while he does, the woman puts her purse back in her suitcase sized handbag!!... *Facepalm*... Cashier goes to hand her her change, and she has to search back through her bag for her purse.... Then proceeds to put change back in purse, her mobile phone rings... Searches through inordinately large handbag for phone while the cashier is attempting to hand her the receipt... Answers her phone and then takes her bags before her receipt, suitcase sized handbag slips off shoulder so she has to carry out yoga moves to get it back on. Has to sort of half crouch so the cashier can put the receipt in the hand that she is holding the mobile phone to her ear... Gaaahhh!!!!!

Grr!!!.... Me - Stuff all goes into one bag, hands the cashier a £20 note that I put in my poket on purpose so I don't have to root around in my wallet, change goes in pocket and I'm off...

Women and checkouts - That really grinds my gears!!

Edit - Sorry about the wall of text!... Not sure why that happened
 
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I'm with you here, it gets me so angry, I'll always have the cash to pay in the pocket or if i overrun the budget I'll card it (same pocket as the cash), bagging is a case of jamming as much into a bag as possible and then moving onto the next bag.

[edit] ^^^ Posts: 143,605, sweet jesus that cannot be right D:
 
Usually you can tell the type just by a glance and swiftly move to another queue yeah, normally they either have grey hair, or they're wider than they are tall.
 
Plus their incapacity to remember how to use a cash machine from the last million times they have. They take so long they must need to learn it all over again every time.
 
It's the same when they get on a bus, ask driver for ticket, search through bag for purse, search through purse for change etc, is it to much to ask for them to have change in hand before bus turns up grrrr
 
Coulda been worse. You could have been in ASDA where they all have an entourage of delinquent children, some old enough to look after the others and seemingly have no puurposebut to mess about and get in my way.

I'm glad I have a woman to do the food shopping, who is pretty well trained in getting in and out with minimum faff, but on the rare (like, once a year) time I accompnay her, I feel a sudden bout of homicide come on.

The fact is, most people are selfish and inconsiderate and you should expect nothing less.
 
Gilly said:
Plus their incapacity to remember how to use a cash machine from the last million times they have. They take so long they must need to learn it all over again every time.
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Don't you hate those people that use about 5 cards at a cash machine?!?!

I'm like WTF?!?! are you doing, you have no money clear off and let people that have money take some out!?!?! :mad:
 
I organise stuff into different bags (well normally organised into one bag) but still have cash/cards ready for the check out guy. Some people (especially women it seems) are just sloooow, like their brain works about 1/10th of the speed. :confused:

What gets me as well is the assistants that then have a 10 minute chat with the said slow woman. Excuse me, i'm waiting, you're at work, not at home having a gossip... GRRR!
 
RDM said:
This makes unpacking the shopping easier, all the fridge stuff in one bag, cupboard stuff in another, freezer stuff in another etc.
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So instead of putting stuff away in your own time you'll waste other peoples time putting it in the bags in the first place? Nonsense!
 
Hairybudda said:
So instead of putting stuff away in your own time you'll waste other peoples time putting it in the bags in the first place? Nonsense!
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Alternatively you put it on the conveyor in the right order and have more than one bag open to put stuff in and it takes no extra time at all?
 
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