re: People who intentionally hold up long lines.

The one that ticks me off is the lady in front of me in line at the cashier with a big basket of purchases .

Cashier finishes ringing up purchases and it appears that the lady is completely surprised that now there will be a transaction required to pay for said items!!!

Oh let me see where is my purse, let me fumble around with my wallet to try to find some money or credit card, and of course the aforementioned coupons.

My son worked at Walgreens. He had a lady come in and hold up the line because she had bought a case of water the day before that was now on sale and she wanted the 75 cents back. She had neither the receipt nor the product to prove the purchase and just wanted them to take her word for it. Demanded a manager who reached in his pocket and gave her the three quarters so everyone could move on with their shopping.

One more from my least favorite place--Walgreens. Any time you need a prescription refilled, get ready to wait--even if you submitted the refill online or called it in.

Anyway, I'm in line and the guy in front of me is trying to spell his name for the girl to get his prescription. She doesn't understand him so he says, "Z as in xylophone" then continued to spell
His name. Sad part was she understood him that xylophone was a z. I almost fell out right there.

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There should be a coupon user line

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And an EBT user line. Hell, An EBT aisle with only approved bulk EBT staples. All you have to do is call it "VIP Aisle" and it would fly.

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At CVS getting one twelve pack of cokes 
Trashy

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What is trashy about that?

Are you saying that drinking a fricking coke is trashy? Come on, man.

I am old and the damn snowtops piss me off. Never get behind anyone who uses a grocery cart in CVS, I promise you they will have a pile of coupons. The last time I was picking up a prescription for my wife and Methuselah and her cart took 15 minutes to check out, the joke of a manager would not take me.

The killer are the old ladies who write a check, then have to record it in the check register before getting out of the way. And cashier, don't thank me for my patience, I don't have any.

While we're on the subject, there is a special hell for the idiots who block you in the parking lot while they wait for someone to pull out, just so their lazy asses don't have to walk an extra 30'. I have a handicap permit for my knee (which I rarely use), if I can walk, you can walk.

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we need to stop coddling old people.

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Is that you Tarsha?

I did it. The rest of the line were making faces at each other, but no one dared speak up. I get $3 isn't trivial, but I had a $5 not a $3 bill. Yeah maybe it was wrong, but that's a lot of BS to hold up the only cashier open, for that long over a trivial amount.

I didn't think it was that negative, I did it to help out the line and get things moving. I have paid for people in front of me before. Like when they have a $20.65 order and only have a $20 and then say " I need to take something off"

--- Nope, I give you a dollar.
I hate being in line to check out. I can't wait to the day I can get 100% of my goods online.

Hell for me would be one lane of Wal-mart, with a full grocery cart, a long arse line and only the self check-out open and I have a lot of produce.

I like using checks when I am buying large purchases for other people and getting paid later. Because a check slows the transaction down a few days. It doesn't come out right away if you have to make transfers.
That's about it. Checks suck. Slow everything down.

I try and explain the best thing to do if you insist on checks is to use a credit card for day to day, then pay that bill with a check. But honestly, chip cards are almost as slow as checks. I hate my damn chip reader.