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Default The checkout line idiot

sf wrote:
: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:19:46 -0700, "Steve B"
: > wrote:
:
:: My favorite experience was when I had ten or fifteen small items,
:: and went to the 8 or less line. Or something along that line. All
:: the other lines were a mile long, and t wasn't like I had 50 or 60
:: items. The cashier made some snippy remark, so I just said, "I'll
:: just go over to the other line, and walked over there leaving my
:: items. I could see the manager go over to the express line, and
:: talk to the cashier. He came over to me, and asked would I like to
:: return to the express line. I said yes, and apologized for being a
:: few precious items over the sacred limit, and that all the other
:: lines had a huge waiting queue, so it was go there, or just leave my
:: basket and go home. I told him that the clerk was just plain rude.
:: She silently rang me up, and within a month, I noticed she was no
:: longer there.
:
: How odd! Usually express line checkers pull people like you over to
: their register when they aren't busy. Being a checker is hard work
: and diplomacy - she wasn't cut out for the job - for sure.

How odd, that you would back up some fool trying to get past polite
suggestions at a place of business. Customers are not god, including
myself. We should speak up when guarantee's are not met, or products are
not whole. This fool just happened to serendipity draw his own straw, and
that is rude. If this is a larger chain, this checker just could have gone
to another store. I don't think hilarity in believing one lost their job is
evidence of the truth in a reenactment.