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To the bitch at Shoppers Drug this morning who was buying and umbrella. You decided to go right to the next open register and ignore the people waiting in line…your either oblivious and stupid, or you’re genuine bitch.
—Chris
This article appears in Jun 18-24, 2009.
18 Comments
A HUGE pet peeve of mine. A long lineup, so another cash register opens, and what happens? Shitheads at the END of the line run to it instead of letting those who have been waiting in line ahead of them have first dibs. There are more manners in my Sunday morning rum dump than in the whole of most people.
I don’t think that’s rude. It would be chaos trying to be fair about it. “OK the next person in line goes to the new register, then #3 stays here, #4 you are 2nd in line at the new register…and so on.
New register = first come, first served. You will all still get out sooner.
People buy umbrellas? I thought they were free. Don’t restaurants give them away? They are always in a bin by the door.
Hahahaha, yorkke.
Or maybe everyone else was too shy/polite to cut to the open register, so this person thought “screw it, if no one else is going I will”.
That’s why I think it’s not rude to do it. If you are in front of me and are making a move to the new register I’ll let you in, but if you dilly-dally, I’m taking your spot.
get some balls! you should have said something right then and there. I do. you deserve being butted in front of.
it’s much faster for the person at the end of the line to get to the next open cash than the person at the front to wade through the crowds.
Shit, you’d probably bitch about that too, wouldn’t you, OP?
Some cashiers will watch out for that and not let people in who are at the back of the line. If they don’t, like Miles said, it’s a free for all and if you snooze you lose.
I’m with PK and Miles on this one. I may even sometimes ask the person in front of me who is not making a move for the cash if they want to go first. But that’s only when the line up is short.
The world would be a much better place if people would just stop lining up for individual check-outs.
There should be ONE line.
…and when any of the check-outs is ready, the person at the front of that ONE line goes to the check-out.
…fair by design, so zero stress.
Whenever I am in a place where I can make this happen myself—when I am the only one waiting for one of 2 tills—I make this happen. I start a queue in the middle.
Try it!!
usually the cashier says….i can help the next person in line…but people don’t care anymore,maybe late for work whatever,did she glare at u as she ran to the checkout. if she did than yeah……she’s a bitch
By the way, you can see the great single-queue system at work at the Wal-Mart near Bayer’s Road. …but they screw it up by having intensely annoying beeps and announcements telling people which till to go to.
All they need to do is assume that people are intelligent enough to be able to tell which tills are open, and ditch the hand-holding.
Come to think of it, the Motor Vehicle Registry has it right. The ‘take a number’ system means you would never have to spend a minute in line if you don’t want to.
Even if you had to wait, you could do it anywhere in the store instead of in the lemming line.
If you needed MORE time, you would just get a new number and let the old one pass by. (Anyone not at the till on time would be skipped.)
If we can figure out how to have that system without the hassle of the actual paper slips, we should use it everywhere!
…thoughts?
umbrellas are pricey!
Everytime I read something like this, my first thought is: Did someone cut your fucking vocal chords? I can’t believe people just stare and stew, then bitch about it when the problem could have been solved by: “EXCUSE ME, LADY, YOU WEREN’T NEXT!”, point to the person who was and say: “HE (or SHE) IS!”
I am totally guilty of doing this. I did it today in fact. If everyone is just going to stand there and stare at each other and think should I go to the next line? … or should I just stay here? like a bunch of aholes no one is going to get anywhere quick. Alternatively, I would have no problem if someone called me out on it and wanted to go ahead of me. Standing there with the look of confusion waiting for someone to make the first move is annoying. It’s not like you’re in a line up say at a local Halifax beverage establishment and say three girls get out of a cab ready to dance and flirt their wait ahead of the line with some boys who daftly let them go ahead of them in hopes of consummating their new found surely to be long lastly relationship after two hours of grinding to Akon at closing time! But that is another bitch for another day my friends.
Learn to make quick decisions and you won’t be confused for long.
TTFN you remind me of my mom too. Nobody gets away with that kind of shit when she’s around. Same with me too.
I’m not above making some fart feel ashamed in public over their self-centered way of life.