Woman and paying for things!Rant!

FillSpectre

I just went to get my lunch later than normal and I remebered why I buy it earlier. It is woman in the que. THree woman were in front of me all with sstuff amounting to less than €5.

WE are all standing in there and the first one wants to pay with a lazer card, THe shop has no lazer facilities so she tries a credit card, none of that either. She then proceeds to start routing through her purse which is one of those massive wallet type things that is so stuffed it looks like a rugby ball. Now I can see that she has cash in her wallet but she insists on picking through her change to get the exact amount. She eventually gives him money and there are people building up behind me. SHe waits for her change of 5 cent as she didn't have exact change THEN she decides to ask for a bag. She is reminded about the charge and she remembers and decides not to. She slowly starts picking her items a yougart and roll without any need for a bag.

The next girl puts down the stuff she has and then starts looking through the chocolate she has been standing beside the whole time. She picks a bar and then changes her mind before it is rang in and then picks another. THe total is announced and THEN she decides to open her bag to get her purse. Again we have to wait as she searches for the right amount of cash again there are notes in her wallet. SHe hands him the money waits for the tiny about of change (5c) and THEN she decides to sart putting her purcahse into the bag the 5c back into the special section of her purse.

THe next woman does the same thing except for the chocolate bar search.

I walk up hand the teller my items then the cash, while he is counting my change I then pick up the items take my change check it is right on sight and then leave.

The woman were not connected with each other and as I have seen this behaviour more than once I am not surpirsed.

Now my mother and sister constantly go on how they can multi-task (and all woman) and men can't. Now as this is what I see as a complete lack of ability to multi-task how is this possible?

Can any woman explain what is their facination with being completely inconsiderate to fellow customers?

Yes it is a rant and I don't hate woman just find this ditsy behaviour impossible to relate to.

kittenkiller

WomEn

I admit, its certainly not something i'd do but you dont understand or relate to it because your a man!!

Noelie

so much for women being better at multitasking, they can't even wait in line and get the cash together at the same time.

Same thing always happens on buses too, but this seems to be more an issue with older ladies than younger ones

KazDub

Women like that piss us other women off too, don't worry. Basically the long and short version of why they do what they do is.........they're stupid and ignorant.
They really couldn't care less that you're standing behind them, waiting to get your own lunch and manage to enjoy your one hour break as much as you can.
These are the same women who walk three abreast with kiddies prams, nattering away and oblivious to the queue of people behind them trying to get by.
We're not all like that, I swear. I make sure to count out the money I need before buying my lunch as I (a) don't want to spend vital lunch hour moments fumbling with shrapnel coins and (b) I hate the 'tutting' that you can hear behind when you do crap like that in a queue.

smiling_time

i hear ya man!

Beruthiel

FillSpectre wrote:

Can any woman explain what is their facination with being completely inconsiderate to fellow customers?.

Sure.
We really couldn't give a toss about others you see.
I never have my money in my hand when in a queue for the till, it would just never dawn on me to be ready. I prefer to wait till I am at the counter before opening my bag and trying to find my wallet, it's normally at the bottom of my bag, hidden under all the other stuff that women have in their bags, sometimes it can take hours to find it.
We're all just so dizzy you see, don't know what we'd ever do if we didn't have men to help us

Mr Magnolia

kittenkiller wrote:

WomEn

women

Mr Magnolia

Beruthiel wrote:

Sure.
We really couldn't give a toss about others you see.
I never have my money in my hand when in a queue for the till, it would just never dawn on me to be ready. I prefer to wait till I am at the counter before opening my bag and trying to find my wallet, it's normally at the bottom of my bag, hidden under all the other stuff that women have in their bags, sometimes it can take hours to find it.
We're all just so dizzy you see, don't know what we'd ever do if we didn't have men to help us

lol, problem solved so...

BoozyBabe

Bugs the hell out of me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

It's not women (or woman as you like to say), it's SOME women

Degsy

Its amazing.I'm standing behind them in the Q,money at the ready,watching the assitant scanning thier shopping.One item after another,the women seem to be lost in thier own little world.Then the last item.Then the total.Then it has to be repeated.THEN the woman comes to life.The bag is sought,rummage,rummage.Then the total is looked at again.Then the change starts being fiddled for.Aniother look at the screen.The change is carefully counted out,penny by agonising penny.The assitant checks it into the till.My fists are clenching.The woman's stopped paying attention again.THEN,when the till closes and teh next person is called,she starts packing her bag...IF she has one,otherwise,halfway through your transaction,she buts in and asks for a bag.Sweet jesus.

squrm

sing it brother!

Bugs the bejeebus out of me.

i've heard some women say that they dont take their purse out until getting to the counter 'in case it gets robbed'. Thats fair enough I suppose, but it still shouldn't take half the day to locate it once there.........

zoro

Why can't people use punctuation correctly? Or spelling?

Or

new

lines??

Orlee

OP - I completely agree but I dont necessarily think it's just women - It's more a case of ignorance. I'm female and work in my local shop.

What really p1sses me off is when people refuse to pack thier own bags. Now, I have absolutely no problem packing a bag for an elderly person, mother or father with kids, someone already carrying lots of bags or when there is no queue. But, people just stand there and stare at me while I'm sorting out their change and then just look at the bag expectantly with ten other people waiting to be served. Why couldn't they have started that when they handed over the money????? It's not just women, but it is certainly the majority. I have found that men are more likely to say hello and give me hand with a heavy basket/packing! Well, that's how I see it, common courtesy is a cost to noone but it is becoming very rare. Chr1st, Im starting to sound like an oul biddy - Im only 22!!!

Another thing is this chip and pin hassle - You've rung through all their shopping and then they decide to tell you that they have no PIN, then they loose the rag with me when I point to the sign that says "Credit Cards only Accepted With PIN". If you dont have your pin then dont use the card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rant over:eek:

galah

Funny, I always thought it was an Irish thing...

I'm a woman, and I certainly don't do this - I get my stuff organised, pay, and leave. No delaying, no rummaging around, no change-of-mind, no being unprepared...

So not all women are hopeless...

Gilgamesh

maybe they just do things different on Venus

Degsy

zoro wrote:

Why can't people use punctuation correctly? Or spelling?

Or

new

lines??

Who cares?Stop moaning like an old woman...

Highlander

Not just at shops, behind woman at M1 Toll plaza the other day, drives up to booth, puts handbrake on, rolls down window, has little chat with girl in booth, reachs over to oversized bag on passenger seat, opens bag, rustles in bag looking for purse, finds coin, hands it to girl, receives change, continues little chat, chat finishes, puts change in purse, purse back in bag, rolls windown up etc etc

missmatty

What annoys me is that certain shops now only take Chip 'n' Pin cards but don't have signs up to that effect. My Laser card hasn't been replaced yet with a chip and pin one, luckily my credit card has, or else I would have had a very embarrassing moment in one shop i often go into! It's usually only when you hand the card over they tell you, and if it was your only card you'd be screwed! Is it our faults that the banks are so slow in this changeover?

Dirk Gently

This wrecks my head too. It's not just in shops, on the bus too they insist on searching their bag for change only when they get to the driver and then are shocked to find they only have notes.

I reckon they do it in shops to get attention from builders or something in the queue. They always stand there sticking their little skinny arses out with their arms folded under their tits for a bit of lift, strut around like on a catwalk picking out stuff and even then waiting until the stressed out teller adds up the total before looking for money. Why can they not even look for money while the teller is in the process of scanning the items? You would swear they didn't know they were going to get asked to pay after the last item is scanned. The best is watching them at the deli counter getting all their low fat spreads and making sure the deli person doesn't put on too much of each dressing, only to strut down to the till and get a king size mars and a can of coke to go with their salad.

I have to say in fairness though; my biggest hate is the wet behind the ears young man in his new dunnes stores suit that doesn't fit him making a point of getting out his laser card just to buy a banana. Fuc.kin melt. Yes you are a big boy now; you have a laser card, go buy a fuc.kin flat screen TV. or something. Bananas are why loose change was invented.

And another thing, why is the office gofor always one step ahead of me in the queue with her big huge list of sambos and rolls which take forever to scan, and then hand over loads of individual amounts of cash. ohh please take for that out of this and them 2 out of this pile of shi.te and that out of this. arghhhhhhhh cnuts.

meh.

HelterSkelter

Good post clown bag, hahaha, I hear ya!

fabcat

Dad? Are you on boards??

leeroybrown

The best that I've seen lately was a woman I was queueing behind in a supermarket. She has loaded her shopping onto the till conveyor and was gazing into space when she realised that she has picked up an incorrect item. She threw her shopping bags (thus far unused) down in front of the till operator, picks up one tin and walks off into the shop with the jar.

Nearly five minutes later I'm there looking at an exasparated till operator and her supervisor who are about to cancel the list when she reappears with not one item but six which have come from all over the store. She then waits for the till operator to put them through before commencing packing. When this is complete she starts the purse search and despite visibly having enough cash to pay she uses laser and requests cash back.

I don't think that it's just women though. Some men are just as bad. The difference is that they don't have their money stored in a purse inside two different bags with enough provisions for a jungle hike on top.

hepcat

nothing like a spot of Friday wimmin-bashing before heading to the pub and behaviing like a truly sophisticated, efficient and superior gentleman. Good on yiz.

Degsy

This isnt geneder specific but i ****in hate people who buy sandwiches or rolls in delis."I'd like a brown rolll,a white baguette,one with butter,one with margerine.Can ihave onion,pepper,sweetcorn and sliced turkey on one with chicken seeetcorn,onions,dried figs and pickles on the one without the butter,no sorry,on the one WITH the butter.Yeah,can i have some raisen obn that one,no that one.Yeah,and mayo on one with the mayo and without the mayo.THEN the coffee..three different nonsensical combinations for each order....what have we become??

xzanti

Degsy wrote:

This isnt geneder specific but i ****in hate people who buy sandwiches or rolls in delis."I'd like a brown rolll,a white baguette,one with butter,one with margerine.Can ihave onion,pepper,sweetcorn and sliced turkey on one with chicken seeetcorn,onions,dried figs and pickles on the one without the butter,no sorry,on the one WITH the butter.Yeah,can i have some raisen obn that one,no that one.Yeah,and mayo on one with the mayo and without the mayo.THEN the coffee..three different nonsensical combinations for each order....what have we become??

Raisens on a roll??

Dirk Gently

ahh its not women bashing, its just annoying women in shops bashing.

They deserve it. If I can go into a shop and get a batch loaf, a litre of milk, a paper and smokes, pay for it and be back out of the shop all in under 30 seconds then theres no reason why these zombie shop women can't do the same.

Just to add, groups of women in a shop is even worse than the individual day dreamer types. Ever see them blocking up the aisles heckling at each other, waving there arms all over the place and nodding their heads in chicken like motions advising their mate to dump some poor fella she met the week before. And they have the cheek to look at you with a big puss on them when you attempt to get by. Whiff of cheap perfume and manky orange ompa lumpa fake tans. I reckon if someone opened a unisex shop they'd make a fortune, well the man shop would, making a sale every five seconds. The woman shop would just be a big gossip fest taking 20 mins for every customer to go through the tills.

ok that’s my lot; this thread is stressing me out.

Degsy

xzanti wrote:

Raisens on a roll??

You get the idea...

FillSpectre

coolsmileygirl wrote:

I admit, its certainly not something i'd do but you dont understand or relate to it because your a man!!

I am stating I don't relate and understand it doesn't take much to undersatnd that. I am asking for an explanantion not to be told I can't understand becasue of my sex.

Degsy

FillSpectre wrote:

I am stating I don't relate and understand it doesn't take much to undersatnd that. I am asking for an explanantion not to be told I can't understand becasue of my sex.

simu

I'd nearly start being inefficient in shops if it annoys people that much The power - mwuhahaha!!!

Degsy

simu wrote:

I'd nearly start being inefficient in shops if it annoys people that much The power - mwuhahaha!!!

Beware!HAve you seen the film Falling Down?

smemon

bloody typical, that's the sort of thing that does my nut in.

i'll be standing in que with a paper and bottle of coke or something, then some ole one will ask for 3 lines of lotto plus for the next 10 weeks or something, then she'll ask for a winning streak, then proceed to search for the exact amount after standing there like a statue for about 2mins.

and why the hell do they have to put everything in their purse and NOT leave the counter until they do so???

me, i only use notes, have the notes ready, hand the good over with bar code showing and am half turned when i get the change back. THATS how it's done. :cool:

Victor

Degsy wrote:

Beware!HAve you seen the film Falling Down?

Ah, but shes 7 months pregnant, she can get away with it.

SoupyNorman

Really is more of a female trait then a male though in all fairness (I direct eveybodies attention to the episode of The Simpsons where Apu loses his job at the Kwik-e-Mart and goes shopping with Marge, he points out the line although the longest is moving the quickest as it is all male, all cash and no chit-chat)

Its so annoying when you spend your 15min break in a queue while some dithery oul flooter has about 35items in the '10 items or less' checkout and whats worse its not enforced at all!

podgewalsh

Yip I hear ya too , annoys the bloody hell outta me !

gerrycollins

i agree with everything said but men are just as bad but women are worse take it from me i know

the worst part is when im on a till in the shop i work in i normally left there while this person is doin the change thing trying no to look p**sed off at them

the next thing tho is when you ,who were waiting behind the change fumblers, comes up next to be served, dont take your anger out on the till operator

simu

Victor wrote:

Ah, but shes 7 months pregnant, she can get away with it.

Heh, not really. People aren't extra polite to pregnant women any more.

But jeez, some people on this thread get way too stressed out - next time you're stuck in a queue, count in binary or imagine you're on a cool beach or whatever...

FillSpectre

leeroybrown wrote:

I don't think that it's just women though. Some men are just as bad. The difference is that they don't have their money stored in a purse inside two different bags with enough provisions for a jungle hike on top.

There are masculine woman and effeminate men. It doesn't stop woman from generally being shorter than men. The same applies here mind you I have yet to see a man open up a huge wallet and spend 2 or 3 minutes rummaging for change when they have a note that they can use. Not once. The waiting for the change before starting to pack yes but only woman seem to have this obsession with paying in change combined with the packing problem.

Degsy

Marks and Spencer's is in a league of its own.The owl ones in there are all perma-tanned with expensive manicures and leathery skin to go with thier bleached-out hairdos,they're allways buying things like peeled coldwater prawns and muscadet & champagne individual deserts,or bottles of extra virgin salad oil,never really buying very much but OH,the quality.However,if you notice with these gin-sodden old bags,everything is a two-for-one offer or they THOUGHT it was when its all tallied up and then they have to call somebody over whilst they stand there with thier purse in thier hand and not making any sort of effort to pack the rest of the stuff in a bag.When its eventually sorted out these people ALLWAYS pay with a credit card after first runningthrough the list with a pen,pointing at each item and mentally adding it up.

maidhc

In fairness it is probably the minority of women do it, but I have often experienced what the OP refers to. It is fascinating that it doesn't click with some people that they are at a checkout and just may be asked for money.

Men are more likely to annoy people by counting out the price of a banana in coppers.

Gandhi

Here is what I can't fathom:

How does it take so long to find the cash in the purse at the start of the transaction, when they spend so long carefully arranging the change in the purse at the end of the previous transaction?

maidhc

Gandhi wrote:

...when they spend so long carefully arranging the change in the purse at the end of the previous transaction?

When my grandmother started to go senile, her handbag became her biggest concern. It was sad, but quite funny when she starting putting half eaten sandwiches, toilet rolls, and other random stuff in there.

hepcat

Degsy wrote:

Marks and Spencer's is in a league of its own.The owl ones in there are all perma-tanned with expensive manicures and leathery skin to go with thier bleached-out hairdos,they're allways buying things like peeled coldwater prawns and muscadet & champagne individual deserts,or bottles of extra virgin salad oil,never really buying very much but OH,the quality.However,if you notice with these gin-sodden old bags,everything is a two-for-one offer or they THOUGHT it was when its all tallied up and then they have to call somebody over whilst they stand there with thier purse in thier hand and not making any sort of effort to pack the rest of the stuff in a bag.When its eventually sorted out these people ALLWAYS pay with a credit card after first runningthrough the list with a pen,pointing at each item and mentally adding it up.

Twit, they do that just to keep the riff-raff out, don't ya know. Back to Aldi with you for your tins of polish sardines and your "sunny" cola....

SoupyNorman

hepcat wrote:

Twit, they do that just to keep the riff-raff out, don't ya know. Back to Aldi with you for your tins of polish sardines and your "sunny" cola....

Nice....

PCRed

The myth that is Men can't mulitask comes from men constantly being given out to by their girlfriends, wives, mothers, sisters and so on about not listening, this is especially true when the man in question is doing something of interest to him.

You see the thing is when a man is doing something, watching TV, surfing the internet for some new porn, whatever, he really doesn't care what any woman has to say, giving her the impression that he can't do two things at once.

Whereas no matter what a woman is doing she is always interested in what everyone else is doing no matter how trivial or u****ortant that may be.

Visa Vee; Men can multitask, they just don't want to. Woman are nosey.

Pedro

hepcat

PCRed wrote:

The myth that is Men can't mulitask comes from men constantly being given out to by their girlfriends, wives, mothers, sisters and so on about not listening, this is especially true when the man in question is doing something of interest to him.

You see the thing is when a man is doing something, watching TV, surfing the internet for some new porn, whatever, he really doesn't care what any woman has to say, giving her the impression that he can't do two things at once.

Whereas no matter what a woman is doing she is always interested in what everyone else is doing no matter how trivial or u****ortant that may be.

Visa Vee; Men can multitask, they just don't want to. Woman are nosey.

Pedro

Ah yes, visa vee and o contrairre, you guys are certainly masters of the incisive and witty retort. I mean that just says it in a nutshell, doesn't it? "Women are nosey". Short and to the point, but displaying an astounding level of social and gender-oriented awareness. Swoons.

Hydroquinone

FillSpectre wrote:

I have yet to see a man open up a huge wallet and spend 2 or 3 minutes rummaging for change when they have a note that they can use. Not once.

You know why that is, don't you? (You know, if we're generalising about the foibles of some members of the other sex )

Because men like to have a huge big dish at home full of the loose change they throw into it every time they come in the front door.
Women don't do that
Women have huge big dishes for pot pourri or fruit or somesuch, not for big clatters of coins.

Degsy

Hydroquinone wrote:

You know why that is, don't you? (You know, if we're generalising about the foibles of some members of the other sex )

Because men like to have a huge big dish at home full of the loose change they throw into it every time they come in the front door.
Women don't do that
Women have huge big dishes for pot pourri or fruit or somesuch, not for big clatters of coins.

This is awesomely true.Except i have various dishes,jars,ashtrays and cups full of change and its all over my bedroom floor where its fallen out of my trousers and i'm too lazy or drunk to pick it up.

Roen

Noelie wrote:

so much for women being better at multitasking, they can't even wait in line and get the cash together at the same time.

Same thing always happens on buses too, but this seems to be more an issue with older ladies than younger ones

One of my greatest pet hates. They annoy the hell out of me. These clowns have had the ten minutes waiting for the bus, the time in the queue, they've been prompted by similar morons in front of them and they still can't get it right. It's only when they get to the driver that they realise that 'Oh! Wait a sec I'll have to pay for this'. They then root through their ****ty purses or wallets for a minute before finally paying. Grrrrrr :mad:

nlgbbbblth

Beruthiel wrote:

We're all just so dizzy you see

Do you think that's something to be proud of?