Whats the most invasive/random thing a Checkout Operator has said to you?
yellowled24
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It seems to me, you get one of two types of checkout operators...
a) The quiet one who is extremely mechanical and does their job quickly or
b) The nosey, twittering one who asks you eveything under the sun!!
In both times that ive bought Pregnancy tests (okay, there mightve been more :eek: ) the person behind the counter has commented "Oh, are you hoping? Are you excited? Was this expected?" each time thinking theyre being witty...yet I think plain rude!!
Has anyone else got any dodgy stories of these workers going too far?
a) The quiet one who is extremely mechanical and does their job quickly or
b) The nosey, twittering one who asks you eveything under the sun!!
In both times that ive bought Pregnancy tests (okay, there mightve been more :eek: ) the person behind the counter has commented "Oh, are you hoping? Are you excited? Was this expected?" each time thinking theyre being witty...yet I think plain rude!!
Has anyone else got any dodgy stories of these workers going too far?
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I said, "Maybe would like to see if I still have those problems, my house is just around the corner, so when do you get off?"
She shut right up and checked me out, quickly. I left laughing.
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Yeah, thats pretty rude.
I mean, what if you were date raped or something. The person would have no way of knowing.
I hate people.
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I said "excuse me" and he is like "nevermind", but he laughed with his buddy the sacker guy!
I got home and told my brother what he had said to me and well.....that was it! :eek:
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
I remember hearing something (maybe an email) and a lady bought some big pack of dog food...and the checkout op. asked "Do you have a dog?" ...duh!!
Then the lady said 'No, im actually on a dog food diet, its really good...losing alot of weight' etc...
hahahaha....dog food diet!! What fools..:)
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
seriously??? :eek: that's fucked up!! :mad:
i had a creepy clerk (guy) ask me weird questions (sorry i can't remember what it was now).....he seemed like a lonely, live in the basement of moms house kinda guy.....just weird....:o
When my brother and boyfriend (now my husband) went up there to talk to the manager, he told them that the guy was a 16 year old punk....he was fired...they weren't happy!!
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
well at least he got fired......and i'm not violent but i would have been with your bro and hubby...;)
Whenever I buy any strong over-the-counter painkillers from the chemist the Pharmicist always comes over and has a big chat to me about how addictive they are, make sure I eat them with food, do I need a pamphlet on the dangers of taking them regularly...WTF??? I know they need to overlook each transaction of this medication, but Im not going to launch into a big speil on how I take them coz ive got Scoliosis and also suffer from hip problems...
theres that fine line isnt there?
Yes....I can't believe they have to talk to you about some pain killers...well at least they care I guess!
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
oh lord. that's the LAST thing you want when you go in to buy one of those. my ex had some bad story about buying condoms once, like they announced the price check over the PA or something. Since then he refused to in and buy condoms.
i should have asked her to marry me, i like weird random characters like that.
and i didnt know you could look hungry either, its not like being tired or sick.
probably. but he's pretty shy.
the pregnancy test story reminds me of a discussion my friends and I were having (back before I was the only one who didn't actually want to be pregnant) about the packaging of pregnancy tests. sometimes it's pretty clear which brands are targeting the people who are hoping for a positive and which are hoping for a negative. Some of them have like pictures of little babies and teddy bears flying around and others are just like black and white labeling "when you need to know now." hahaha I avoid the little teddy bears.
Yesterday, I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for Athena the wonder dog at Wal-Mart and was about to check out.
A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again although, I probably shouldn’t, because I’d ended up in the hospital last time. On the bright side though, I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no; I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter’s ass and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard! WAL-MART won’t let me shop there anymore.
I hardly ever talk to clerks other than what is necessary for them to do their jobs, but the last time I bought condoms this is what the clerk said to me, "Shit man, I see that ring on you finger. You don't need to be buying these because since you're married, your wife won't have any STDs." I told her (the clerk) that I wasn't worried about my wife cheating on me and picking up any STDs, but that I sure as hell didn't want any mini-me's to be coming around any time soon. There are a couple of other stories that I have, but that's the funniest....
I work in a liquorstore on the weekends and sometimes for fun i'll ask younger customers to guess my name. I tell 'em if they guess right, i'll buy their booze for them. Everyone always plays along.
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What, your brother was your boyfriend and he's now your husband????
Or have i misunderstood?
I said "Fuck you buddy.......I'll carry my shit home myself !"
All the nerve
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I politely replied "no thanks, here's your change".
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I just said "oh, these are not for me, I'm going to a shower". Still, having to explain to a stranger is kind of irritating. I'm usually pretty good with the snappy come-back, but I was like "DUH".
I have bought alot of pregnancy test in the last few months and someone always comments. I dont care, no big deal.
I know.
I work with the public, and I can think of a lot of crazy-ass stuff I've said without thinking. I'm sure people have left my office and though "what the fuck was THAT all about".