On 10/10/2010 11:42 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2010-10-10, Dave > 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.


Sorry to hear about your mom. This was a young woman, maybe 30-35. She
was well dressed and well groomed.

It was one of the most bizarre things I had ever seen. One might
reasonably expect that someone expecting to pay for something in that
price range with change should get her change organized ahead of time.
This was too bizarre because she reached in and pulled out a handful of
large coins, $1 and $2 coins and quarters, but obviously nowhere near
enough, and then she stood there waiting for the cashier to count it
out. Then she kept reaching in and rummaging around for more coins and
putting a bunch more down without any effort to count it, doing it
batches of about a dozen coins at a time. She was absolutely clueless.

Maybe I should have been looking around for a hidden camera.