On 2019-04-12 9:21 a.m., Gary wrote:
> John Kuthe wrote:
>>
> <stuff about waiting in line>
>
> Fact of life, John. Say in a grocery store. Go stand in the
> shortest one person checkout line and it almost never fails that
> it will be the slowest one of all. By time you get checked out, 4
> people in the longer line have paid and left way sooner. It's a
> Mr.Murphy thing, I suppose. Mr.Murphy knows everything.
>


If there are lines I go to the one with the most men in it. They tend
to have fewer items and they usually have their cash or debit card in
hand so that as soon as the cashier had rung everything through they
hand over the payment. Old women, OTOH, stand there and watch their
stuff being checked out and then when the total is announced they open
open up the purse, look for the wallet, look for the card...