First, the bitch…to the Bitch at the GAS station the other morning that, after wasting the cashiers time checking your ticket, you then proceed to stand there and chit chat about some new lottery game and blah blah blah. Now normally with 2 cashiers and 2 cash registers this wouldn’t be an issue, except at the other cash, is a woman very slowly trying to decide what scratch tickets she wants, and therefore both cashiers are being held up by tickets. It’s somewhere between 745 and 8am and and I just want to pay for my GAS and coffee and get to work, I had a very busy day ahead of me. My problem with you was this, the ALC put little machines in EVERY retailer so that you could check your tickets YOURSELF,without having to make people wait for fifty losers before one winner. You could have simply checked it yourself and been on your way. Second issue is after you did pay for your GAS, because remember, we’re at a GAS station, and got the cashier to check your ticket, you KEPT TALKING!!!! If you haven’t got anywhere better to be then fine stay and chit chat all you like, but get the fuck out of the way and let other people pay and be on their way. I had to get to work, and I carpool with three others who also had to get to work. And real nice threatening to call the police because I was rude to you…I am sure they’ve got tonnes of resources available to get right on that! I’m still waiting for the phone call. And I am sure that when that guy walked in to pay for his GAS, he didn’t apprieciate you running right up to him and telling him all about the people who don’t like tickets!!! Wow, I was stunned. Get over yourself already, it’s was simply a matter of noticing that you were holding people up for absolutely no reason. He didn’t care about you and your tickets either. You people that do nothing but scratch tickets all day, ever sit down and add up what you spend verses what you win?? How do you think the lotto stays in business?? You RARELY ever come out on top. Unless you are lucky enough to win HUGE like millions. Scratch tickets NEVER PAY OFF!! WAKE UP!!! Now to the manager or whomever you are from said GAS station, I apologize to you for flipping out at you this afternoon concerning said incident. I understand your position and know where you are coming from. But I have a very simple solution to this problem to prevent it from happening again. I also notice many other places doing the same thing. If you have more than one cash and cashier, dedicate ONE to lottery tickets as well as other purchases and leave the other free for customers who are paying for GAS…I was under the impression it was a GAS station, what with the big IRVING sign and all the gas pumps. And to the cashier that was working both that morning and this afternoon, you are correct, I probably didn’t have to be that rude, I apologize to you as well. But to the bitch that initially pissed me off, a big fuck you. I really hope you can manage to pull your head out of the sand some day and take a real good look at the world around you and what really makes things ‘work’.
This article appears in Oct 9-15, 2008.
Um… perhaps I am wrong, but doesn’t just about EVERY gas station have the option to pay at the pumps?
Dude wanted coffee, Gidge. Gotta go inside for that. I hate those scratch ticket addicts too. Especially the ones that buy the ticket and then stand there and scratch it AT THE COUNTER. Those tear-open things are the worst: “Two more please… two more… ooo! $5! gimme ten more…” I want to take off my shoe and hit those people in the back of the head.
Yeah, realized that AFTERWARD, Miranda… short attention span, you see, I have this pile of scratch tickets in front of me I’m pretty anxious to get to… (HA!)But seriously, I use drive-thrus and the pay-at-the pump because I just KNOW someone inside is going to do something to piss me off more often than not. Or maybe because I just plain hate people…
Amen. I had the good fortune of being stuck behind a lady with an ATLANTIC LOTTO PORTFOLIO not that long ago. I’m serious. It was a leather binder-type thing designed to keep all her tickets organized. It took the better part of 15 minutes for her to check them all, decide what she would do with her $7 winnings, then purchase roughly $100 more. I nearly lost my mind. If you’re that serious about gambling, go to an Atlantic Lotto Counter. Don’t make the person behind you who’s just trying to by some milk suffer.
Customer Service counters in grocery stores are just as bad. I have a problem with something relating to groceries I’ve bought, or I need a rain check, and I have to wait for 20 minutes behind all the people who want to buy/check lotto tickets. The lottery people should be paying for their own cashiers to be set up in grocery stores and gas stations, and they can deal with the people who want to buy lotto, keep the people who were hired by said places to serving customers who want gas and groceries.
i agree that the lotto ticket slugs are annoying, but i lost my sympathy when the OP admitted to being rude to the counter person who was just doing their job and DOESN’T CONTROL THE SYSTEM. good for the OP for apologizing but how about doing it to their face and not on some random internet forum.
Agreed. I find it hilarious that she is going to call the police. I would love to work the phones at the police station sometime:Me: “Hello, you’ve got the HRM Police department this is The Bad Guy. How can I help you?”Idiot: “Some hooligan was very rude to me at the gas station.”Me: “And?”Idiot: “I want him arrested!”Me: “For?”Idiot: “Being rude to me at the gas station.”Me: “And what do you want?”Idiot: “You have a sexy voice The Bad Guy… Can we meet?”Me: “How much have you won from those lotto tickets lady?”Idiot: “$15″Me: “Call me win you win a milli.” *click*You know that’s how it would go down.
I was there yesterday afternoon, and they weren’t rude to the cashier, but to the manager/supervisor or whatever she is. The person behind the counter simply called them on their rudeness, I think that’s what the OP meant when apologizing to the counter person. They said something about the former owner, and the manager/supervisor said he didn’t run the place anymore. The OP said, “that explains why this place sucks now” THAT is, I believe, the rude comment that the cashier called them on. But I do agree Mole Rat, she should go apologize to her face. Either way, I loathe the scratchers, and the people that have to get the cashiers to check all their tickets…Oh and Gidge, this said gas station has not been updated in a while and does not have pay at the pumps yet. Yes, there’s still a few around the outskirts of the city and in some rural areas. Although being under new management, that may soon change. They did just recently update the cash registers inside the store. What sucks though, is you can’t pay at the pump with cash.
its funny that today’s society is that impatient, that maybe 5 minutes out of thier lives is a HUGE inconvience. Sorta like the cars that honk at pedestrians crossing the street a weeeeee bit too slow when it is raining. While irratating, are we in that much of a rush as a society?