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Old people in checkout lines. They should have a special old person line and they can all hang out with each other while they take ten years to pay for their [censored].


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This is spectacularly good. Old people just suck at checking out. I realize they're a little bit slower than the rest of us, but wow, they come from a slower time, period.

Yesterday I was in the express line at Safeway. I was mildly annoyed that some old broad had like 12 items in the 10 items or fewer line, but then she gets her receipt and starts scanning it for inaccuracies! While I'm trying to get to the counter to punch in my phone number, etc. She tried to claim that she didn't get her discount on whatever meat she bought. Checker looks at it and says uh, yeah you did, it's right there at the bottom. She looks at it again for like THIRTY MORE SECONDS before finally agreeing with him and moving on. You suck old hag.

Having worked in the grocery business I can speak to pricing inaccuracies. Hell, I was recently overcharged for something and Safeway gave me a full refund. But I paid too much for it, thought that was weird, and came in a day or two later with my receipt and they gave me cashish for their mistake. But I didn't stand in the goddamned express line holding everyone up to do a line item audit of my charges.