We often buy extra groceries and put them in the food bank box on our way out the of the grocery store. I’m not talking large amounts but if something is on sale we’ll double up or whatever and donate it.
I’m getting really tired of the comments from this one particular check out lady. Â For some reason we ALWAYS seem to get her. One time we even switched lines when we saw her and some how she STILL showed up at the register (break relief I think).
When she sees us buying like 5 bags of oatmeal she thinks she should make a comment about how much food we’re buying and ‘what are we going to do with all the such and such’. Â I tried to explain it to her once but she didn’t get it. Â I wouldn’t even care if the comments weren’t snide, snotty and if she didn’t look me up and down when she said it – yeah I could stand to lose a few. But whatever.
I generally don’t mind chit chat at the register but keep your fucking snide comments to yourself.—Kiss it
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.
Have you made a complaint yet?
Definitely complain. She has NO business saying shit.
Next time she starts ask her how much food SHE donates to the foodbank! Turn the focus on her so she’s forced to think about her actions not yours. Kudos to you for being such a generous and thoughtful individual.
If it is how you say it is, complain to her supervisor.
Or call her out on it, on the spot. Rudeness is rudeness, with or without a name tag.
Soooo, what are you doing with five bags of oatmeal anyway?
colonel maybe threatening to KILL her kids is a little harsh in keeping with mother’s day and all perhaps tone it down to having their legs broken 🙂
Cheerfully withdrawn. Thank you Martym, you’re the conscience I never had. >; )
well sometimes in a quest for truth and justice leaders of men can get a little , shall we say overly vengeful in an effort to rectify the situation that’s why you need “people” to buffer the resulting plan of action; fearless leader sir 🙂
I still want to know about the five bags of oatmeal.
o.p., if you are doinmg a good deed like that, then just don’t let some asshole bother you with their stupid comments. by the way, kudos to you for doing that, for the food bank.
Pav: I would suspect some of the five bags of oatmeal jumped ship from the grocery cart to the foodbank donation box as the OP left the store as per the first sentence of the Bitch.
You would have loved me as your cashier. I didn’t make any small talk unless the customer initiated it. That being said, I always smiled and did my job efficiently… but it was never my business to ask what anyone planned on doing with anything they were buying.
This reminds me of Mad Magazine’s ‘Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions’. I would have told her the five bags of oatmeal were for your cat so it can shit and eat in its litterbox at the same time.
Any chance this was at the Sobey’s on Mumford? I always seem to get the same lady at the checkout who scrutinizes what I buy. “What do you use this for?”, “why are you buying that?”. Now, I just avoid her. I’ll stand in a line twice as long to avoid having to deal with her.
Complain to the store manager….take it to the top! Her comments are uncalled for. Also, provide her name and store location to the Food Bank. I am sure they’d love to have a talk with her to educate her.
This bitcher should be reported to CSIS and the Dept of Homeland Security. Clearly they are up to some clandestine terrorist shit with all that oatmeal.
I predict we will see an oatmeal bomb in the back of an SUV parked downtown soon. Panic!
Hoot Mon! the Scottish Nationalists are back with a vengeance.
“O’Flower o’ Scotland,
when will we see yer likes again…”
oh man, i have images of a giant haggis blowing up
Nothing compared to the 300 ft statue of ‘Yon Scotsman Wi’ Nae Troosers” to be erected (no sniggering LS) in the heart of Edinburgh, future capital of the Presbyterian Republic of Caledonia. (Not the Caledonian Presbyterian Republic – fookin’ splitters.)
At least it’s just oatmeal she’s commenting on. It would be a lot worse and more embarrassing if you were buying 5 tubes of anal lube…
I never got that… they make a product who’s use makes it super easy to steal it.
lube it up and… free lube.
you can always pretend to take your blood pressure if people are around…
Sobeys at Mumford has a cashier that I find a pain too… she has a big gut, wears pink lipstick, has short wavy light brown hair and wears glasses. She went through my green bag at the cash which had my purse in it plus stuff from Walmart… said it was for security reasons. Then another day she tried to do the same thing at the bus stop at Mumford.
LOL at the bus stop? I would’ve spit in her face and never went back to that sobeys.
yea she tried to go through my purse too but i was all “oh no you didn’t” 🙂
nothing like a little hint at “reality” from one who KNOWS your shopping habits to ruin a perfectly good day. Perhaps two bags of oatmeal would suffice, OP? Maybe then people would believe the size of your ass has nothing to do with your stuffing your pie-hole 5 times over.
to bad Kay, this time you sound like an ass. I often buy alot of something when it’s on sale. I might keep it for my pantry or donate it to one of my kids.
Really go through your bag? You know they are NOT allowed to do that unless you beep out the door and then it is security that looks. It is grounds to be fired. I would talk to the manager about her violating your privacy without cause.
…A cashier is definitely not allowed to check your personal belongings. Lol.
Kay, limiting your groceries for fear of being interrogated is idiocy.
I often get odd looks when I grab 30 odd cans of tuna in one shot but hell, it’s under 80 cents a can… so I stock up. none of this 1.29 or 1.50 shit….
so what, prey tell, is wrong with that?
I’ll give you a hint… the answer rhymes with “schmuthing”.
I’d never go to this place. screw that.
They are allowed to go through your bag if you say they can. Don’t want her to? say NO and that’s that.
I’m assuming that works with backpacks as well…
I’m not about to get a “man’s bag” just to stick it to the man.
all this talk of anal lube is getting to be too much for me.okay girls, bring it on, we’ll go thru 10 before the night is over. l.i.h., sorry dude, unless you have a snatch, no go for you.
Life Sucks, you can just tell the guy’s yours is an exit shute only ~;)