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Jun 2013
10:11pm, 16 Jun 2013
7,126 posts
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Dvorak
I really hate those self-service checkouts, especially the ones in Morrisons. I feel sorry for the people on the real checkouts next to them, they must end up mentally scarred. I am also appalled that a local Asda have installed ones with belts - as in, it's no longer for just a few items, it's for a big shop as well. Boo!!
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Jun 2013
10:20pm, 16 Jun 2013
1,035 posts
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Ade1973
that's service...
Hurumph.
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Jun 2013
8:50am, 17 Jun 2013
4,620 posts
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daz1927
I don't mind the Self Service ones, if I only have a few items I prefer to use them.
What pisses me off is the change they give! The other day I spent £4.90 for lunch and stuff, and inserted a £5 note, expecting a single 10p to be returned.
WTF - I got 5 x 2p pieces - bastards!
The girl who works there (Tescos) has sionce told me that the machines never contain any 10p or 50p pieces. 
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Jun 2013
9:14am, 17 Jun 2013
73 posts
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magnumpti
Continuing on the supermarket theme, people in the queue behind you who start unpacking their trolley before you've finished unpacking yours. They place the next customer sign where they want it to be and you then have to try and squeeze your shopping into the space. As I have OCD I have to pack the scanned items in a logical way my system gets cocked up if my space is reduced! It's usually older people who do this I should add, probably because they won the war and all that guff.
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Jun 2013
9:22am, 17 Jun 2013
25,767 posts
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Velociraptor
People in the supermarket queue ahead of me who fuffle around putting their shopping in a special order on the belt, taking up far more space than they need to because they won't have different items touching one another, and glare and snap at the poor checkout operator who is Only Trying To Help when she offers to start packing their shopping, insisting on holding the queue up by packing everything, very slowly, and repacking until each bag makes a shape that isn't offensive to their eye.
While a queue builds up, and the old lady whose arms are tired from holding her small loaf of bread, half-litre carton of milk and packet of corned beef finally gives in, puts a spacer on the belt and puts her items down behind it.
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Jun 2013
9:55am, 17 Jun 2013
884 posts
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Fellrunning
Celebrity couples having "public bust ups"
Firstly - why is this news? Married couples have disagreements, some of them in public, some of them get heated. Just because its the great and the good doesn't make it headline news.
Secondly - why do Scotland Yard feel the need to investigate? Unless Nigella went for hubby with the carving knife I fail to see how this is a useful use of police resources. I didn't notice Knacker of The Yard investigating the time that Shel chased me round the garden with a hoe....
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Jun 2013
9:56am, 17 Jun 2013
885 posts
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Fellrunning
Vrap have you been shopping in the same supermarket as me. That sounds suspiciously like Shel !!
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Jun 2013
9:58am, 17 Jun 2013
22,956 posts
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Frobester
A propos of organising stuff on the conveyor belt, it's de rigeur in Sweden where my wife's from, to arrange all the goods with the barcode facing towards the till person - it's considered rude not to.
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Jun 2013
10:13am, 17 Jun 2013
25,772 posts
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Velociraptor
Quite right, Frobester. I think that would be a good habit to encourage here too
Fellrunning, who knows? Rural folk and all that ... ? Actually, around here the checkout operator is likely to start asking the person why they're doing *that* with their shopping, and telling them about their own mad relative who does far stranger things. Or else saying, "Is it the rice pudding or the tuna that can't be in the same bag as the baked beans?"
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Jun 2013
10:18am, 17 Jun 2013
8,170 posts
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The Teaboy
Random motorway holdups for no good reason. No crash, no nothing. All because people can't obey the fixed speed limit signs and keep traffic flow nice and uniform. Cost me 20 minutes this morning for no reason whatsoever.
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