Today, I got in line at the grocery checkout. Only two people were in front of me; the one being waited on and a gal with four items who was glued to her phone. Two of the items she was buying were the gossip magazines that are at the checkout stands. She was recounting to her caller the headlines from each magazine with a "did you know THAT"? followup to each article.
Even as the cashier started to ring up her purchases, she was still blabbing away on the phone. Then it came time to show ID for the beer she had as well as slide her card to pay up. As she was talking, she reached into her purse only to see that the wallet is missing. Before she even says anything to the cashier, she has to inform her friend about the missing wallet and where it might be. She finally tells the cashier to just skip the beer and she'll pay with some card. But then that card doesn't seem to work so she then says for the cashier to just hold everything while she goes out to her car to see if the wallet is there. She expected all those in line to just wait while she goes to her car and searches for the wallet! And, of course, she was still talking on the phone this whole time.
The cashier decided to not wait but then has to back out each item one at a time and still call for someone else to come override the cancelled order. Finally she rings up my stuff. Only when half my stuff is already bagged up does the other shopper come back, having found her wallet. Then she just barges up to the line like "of course" she's to be waited on immediately. OMG!
Thank goodness I got out of there at that point. Who knows what she had go wrong next and I'm sure the people in the line were rather upset.
And, of course, she was STILL on the phone!!!!
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