"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> She seemed quite indignant that I
>>> objected to her butting in.
>>
>> I certainly agree with you. In my case
>> the woman ahead of me in line let another
>> woman ahead of her who had the same excuse.
>> But then first woman left the line. I was
>> too polite to make a scene, but perhaps I
>> should have. I did not appreciate her
>> getting in front of me in line.
>>
>> There was another incident in which an old
>> Jewish lady in front of me pointed out to
>> the guy in front of her that he had more
>> than nine items (or whatever it was) and
>> got him to leave the line. I thanked her
>> for that.
>
>
> Mark,
>
> On a day when the supermarket traffic was very light, the cashier waved
> me into the express checkout lane, while I had about 20 items. He said
> "I haven't had a customer in minutes." and checked me out with no
> objections. I was going to pass by his register, not wanting to "cheat
> the system."

I stopped at the store tonight. They had only the Express Line open. It
was 15 items or less, which I had. They also had the four, self check
registers open. But I had a heavy bag of ice melt in my cart and didn't
want to have to try to ring that up myself.

I got behind an old man who was laughing and going on and on about rum. I
had great difficulty understanding what he was saying because he was
laughing throughout his words. He seemed to know the clerk.

Just when I thought he was leaving, he turned back and started going on
about pineapple on pizza. Again hard to understand. The clerk said
something about getting that type of pizza in Hawaii. He didn't believe
her. She said the next time she went, she would get some menus and send
them to him.

Meanwhile, my daughter and I were just standing there wanting to be rung up.
The clerk wasn't paying a lick of attention to us and I really wished she
would have told that man that she couldn't talk to him any more.

By the time she finally rung me up, I was a bit confused. She just left my
two bags on the counter, out of my reach. The type of counter they have has
like a turntable thing on it.

I struggled to get my bags, started to leave and kind of wondered why she
didn't give me my cart. Then my daughter mentioned the ice melt. Turns out
she had been paying so little attention, she didn't even ring it up.

By then she had started a sale with the man behind me. She was slow in
ringing him up too because the old man was still going on and on about the
pineapple on pizza and how he claimed nobody would do such a thing. I just
wanted to tell him to shut up!