"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> "Steve B" wrote
>> "cshenk" wrote
>
>>>> My favorite experience was when I had ten or fifteen small items, and
>>>> went to the 8 or less 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.
>
> Asshole action. 1- deliberately joined line with more than then instead
> of being waived over if they had tme for the smaller custmer.
>
>>>> 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.
>
> So, you acted like an asshole, glow that you may have gotten her fired and
> in fact, that manager is probably no longer there.
>
>>> In any reputable store, they would boot your ass out and never allow you
>>> in again.
>
>> What? For following the clerk's ascertain that I was in the wrong line,
>> and complying by going to the "correct" line?
>
> You should have been there right away and not complained in the first
> place.
>
>> For politely telling the manager of the situation and letting him make
>> the decision as to what to do? For not going off on the clerk and
>> telling her what I was really thinking? For behaving like an adult? For
>> maintaining a civil demeanor?
>
> For abuse of the system. Your need to get out 'fast despite the rules'
> was no reason to be an asshole with the cashier who was following company
> rules as posted right over the register.

I bow to you and prostrate myself before your superior intelligence.

However, in a store, I'll still do whatever I want to. I don't take guff
from people I'm giving money to.

Yer welcome.

Steve