FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Off topic for sure, but I have a small quandary

Bruce[_28_]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:20:03 -0400, wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 Dave Smith wrote:
>>On 2019-04-12 lucretiaborgia wrote:
>>>On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 Dave Smith
>>
>>>> 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...
>>>
>>> Smiths usual misogynistic shit !
>>
>>Yeah. I know. The truth hurts.
>
>I see just as many men at the checkout day dreaming and unprepared to
>pay, then they need to pull a way over stuffed wallet from a back
>pocket that appears like a cancer growth... they need to shuffle
>through a whole deck of plastic cards or have to muddle through a wad
>of wrinkled bills, all the denominations mixed together. I also see
>mostly men wanting to pay with a debit card that hasn't enough funds
>available and there they are holding up the line while deciding what
>to put back.
>
>I shop with a list and mostly stick to it. I know the prices and
>calculate the total before leaving home. I'm usually within a dollar
>and have the money ready in hand.

A strange reason to be proud of oneself, but if it works for you...