The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[ezdays]

Good morning everyone, I hope you're all having a great weekend, the last of this year. It's hard to believe we're just a few days away from a new year, I'm not sure I know what happened to June though November, the months just whizzed by without stopping for a breath. Today will be a bit above normal, but no where's close to the record of 83 for today.

Don:
I don't like self-checkouts unless I get a discount for doing someone else's job. And I don't like taking away someone's job -- especially now that I'm retired.

I had a fun problem at one shop. I took in my own bag and put it on the stacker. Serious objections from the machinery because I had the hardcover book I was reading in the bottom of the bag...

My "discount" is time and less aggravation. When I see the last person in line has a full basket of little things with three kids either tugging at her or crying and she's on her cell phone, I opt for the self-check. You're right, rarely do they have enough lines open, they may have 25 or more checkout lanes, I'm thinking that most of them are dummy lanes, not working, but there to impress. Yet another peeve is when the person that is checking out in the "20 or less" lane, has a basket full of stuff, and the clerk allows them to still check out there. I asked a clerk about it once and she said that the woman told her that she'd leave the basket full of stuff there and walk out of the store if she wouldn't check her out in the speedy lane...so she did...