Today I wrote from 1 to 800 on the back of receipts, I also contemplated screaming at the customers for their sheer stupidity.
"Would you like a carrier bag or a bag for life?"
Customer: -blank face- "uh." -looks at me for some sort of signal as to what i'm asking-
"A carrier bag -points to carriers- or a bag for life -points to bags for life-"
Customer: "Please love."
"Which one?"
C: "-insert rubbish pun on idea of a bag for life here (may include such examples as: "well I don't know if i'll last til end of't week yet love! HOHOHAOHAAHOAHOAHAHAHAHAHAH -slaps self heartily on the back- or the ever popular "bag for life? How about a bag for now instead eh? AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA I'M SO FUNNY.... LOVE.")
Then we come to the payment at the end, which seems to be a massive task for some people. Firstly, when people are paying cash and decide to give it to me all in coins, they seem to want to run out of the shop as soon as possible, making them look very suspicious. They back slowly away whilst repeating "it all there love?" "think that's right love" "thanks now love." "don't go spending it all at once now love.". Trying to double check that I've been given the right amount whilst keeping an eye on the disappearing customer AND pretending to laugh at any lame joke he/she comes up with is a lot more stressful than it sounds, especially when they haven't given you the correct amound and you have to yell from one end of the shop to the other to get their attention.
"YOU'RE 1P SHORT!"
"WHAT'S THAT NOW?!"
"1P SHORT"
-customer does awkward pretend run (arms swinging) whilst actually walking over to the till-
"What was that?"
"You're 1p short."
-gives 1p-
"ALRIGHTTHANKSNOWLOVEBYESEEYOULATERHAHAHAHADON'TGOSPENDINGITALLAT-"
"SHUTTHEFUCKUP"
...............
ok so it actually ends with me awkwardly laughing and nodding.
Secondly, there are the people wanting to pay by card. The card machine is literally right in front of them, yet a lot still hand me the card so i can twist my arm around the front of the checkout and put it in for them.
"Any cashback?"
"yes, £100 please."
"Sorry we only do up to £50."
-customer smiles and nods then looks down at card machine-
"We only do up to £50, would you like that instead?"
"Oh sorry love, miles away, yes £50 is fine."
-I go to enter in the amount of cashback BUT-
beep beep beep beep beep BLEEP
"What's going on here?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
"You need to wait for it to say enter pin before you enter the pin"
"Oh right."
Why
are
some
people
so
completely
stupid?!
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