On 2010-10-10, Dave Smith > wrote:

> I was tempted to say something but, despite her normal appearance, this
> woman was obviously not quite right.

Sounds if she's suffering some sort of senile dementia, like
alzheimers. My mom is at this level. She can shop for 2 hrs, then
takes an hour to pay. I keep an eye on her when she gets in line to
check out, but only help if the check lady (we know them all) begins
experiencing problems. Otherwise my mom will jes argue with me,
rather than deal with the business at hand. She did the change on the
belt routine once, but I stepped in and took over, finding her check
book for her and picking up all the change while the others in line
either backed out or resigned themselves and mom made out a check to
the cashier. Such is case with far too many older ppl. Be grateful
it's not you.

nb