Newsagent irritants

Kermit.de.frog

So you run in, as you do, to a newsagent to pick up a few overpriced things and run out. I find newsagents irritable places mostly because of others around me.

I have 2 main complaints

1. I judge people on the newspaper they are buying.

I do. If I happen to be in a newsagent and I see someone heading to the counter with a copy of the Irish Times or Sunday Independent I think - suave, sophisticated, cultured. I see someone with the Sun or the Mirror for example I think - scum.

I don't mean to! It's just an automated response to a visual stimulus.


2. Women with their hand bags. Have the change ready before you reach the counter please. All that routing around does actually annoy the queue behind you.

Is it really all that hard or degrading to you as a woman to have the change in your pocket or paws ready to go?


I could include random gang of feral youth but i'd leave that to someone else.

Jesus Wept

I judge people if they are buying a newspaper.

FunLover18

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

2. Women with their hand bags. Have the change ready before you reach the counter please. All that routing around does actually annoy the queue behind you.

Is it really all that hard or degrading to you as a woman to have the change in your pocket or paws ready to go?

"I'm so sorry, I didn't realise I'd be expected to pay! Now, where's me purse?"

Gongoozler

This isn't a Blog site ya know.

Cantremember

People still buy newspapers? I see.

syklops

You sound like a muppet.

glued

I dislike people who make stupid generalisations, for example judging someone on the newspaper they buy!

darkpagandeath

Is it not on what top shelf mag you buy ?

Sand

People paying for small purchases with a debit or credit card with the inherent delay. I did this once in my life at the end of a night out where the ATM in the shop was out of service. But I'm seeing people doing it more and more often these days to buy the paper or a packet of cigarettes.

Mr Pseudonym

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

If I happen to be in a newsagent and I see someone heading to the counter with a copy of the Irish Times or Sunday Independent I think - suave, sophisticated, cultured.

You judge someone buying the Sindo to be necessarily cultured?!

SilverScreen

Bunch of Irish Times **** *rolls up Indo in aggressive manner*

Kermit.de.frog

SilverScreen wrote: »

Bunch of Irish Times **** *rolls up Indo in aggressive manner*

Irish Times readers do tend to let you know they have a copy of the paper in their hands by making it as visible as possible. Don't know why.

Kermit.de.frog

FunLover18 wrote: »

"I'm so sorry, I didn't realise I'd be expected to pay! Now, where's me purse?"

This. Seriously what is with that? Is there a woman out there that can explain the thought process behind the whole purse, last minute, counter thing?

SilverScreen

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Irish Times readers do tend to let you know they have a copy of the paper in their hands by making it as visible as possible. Don't know why.

I've noticed that. Not as bad as Sunday Business Post readers though, those guys should be condemned to an eternity of reading the Sunday World (with all the women taken out).

Banjo String

Sand wrote: »

People paying for small purchases with a debit or credit card with the inherent delay. I did this once in my life at the end of a night out where the ATM in the shop was out of service. But I'm seeing people doing it more and more often these days to buy the paper or a packet of cigarettes.

I'm guilty of this sometimes.

However, the simple explanation for it, and the only one I have is that I more than likely have no cash in my wallet/pockets at that particular moment, and there isn't an ATM close enough to me that would take less of my time to get to, insert card, enter pin, select cash amount, wait on machine whirring and spitting out my cash, than simply walking up to the til, handing my visa debit punching in pin and waiting on approval, take my goods.

In hindsight, I'm a terrible Bastard.

EyeSight

Sand wrote: »

People paying for small purchases with a debit or credit card with the inherent delay. I did this once in my life at the end of a night out where the ATM in the shop was out of service. But I'm seeing people doing it more and more often these days to buy the paper or a packet of cigarettes.

That's more down to the store than the customer. I'm in America at the moment and you can pay for small purchases just by swiping or taping your card. It's incredibly fast and easy. Some places in Dublin have it now. Faster than counting out change or queuing at an ATM
I hate carrying around change and try to pay for as much as possible on card

Sir Osis of Liver.

Stop hanging around in newsagents then.

I like 'The Daily Sport' btw.

Sand

EyeSight wrote: »

That's more down to the store than the customer. I'm in America at the moment and you can pay for small purchases just by swiping or taping your card. It's incredibly fast and easy. Some places in Dublin have it now. Faster than counting out change or queuing at an ATM
I hate carrying around change and try to pay for as much as possible on card

Oh yeah, when they introduce the "swipe and you're done" deal in Ireland I'll be converting over to the new cash-free society. But as it stands right now, it's slow and awkward for buying a breakfast roll, so paper and coins win for convenience. Even early converters are a little early on this one for now.

@Banjo

However, the simple explanation for it, and the only one I have is that I more than likely have no cash in my wallet/pockets at that particular moment, and there isn't an ATM close enough to me that would take less of my time to get to, insert card, enter pin, select cash amount, wait on machine whirring and spitting out my cash, than simply walking up to the til, handing my visa debit punching in pin and waiting on approval, take my goods.

In hindsight, I'm a terrible Bastard.

But if you go to the ATM once, you could save yourself having to hand over the visa and punching in a pin and waiting on approval many times.

But yeah, you are a monster.

For Forks Sake

Mr Pseudonym wrote: »

You judge someone buying the Sindo to be necessarily cultured?!

Or even literate, for that matter.

Calibos

Sand wrote: »

People paying for small purchases with a debit or credit card with the inherent delay. I did this once in my life at the end of a night out where the ATM in the shop was out of service. But I'm seeing people doing it more and more often these days to buy the paper or a packet of cigarettes.

FFS, you don't take cards! What kind of stone age newsagent is this?

The kind that doesn't want the inevitable queue that builds up behind you nor want to lose another 1.5% in transaction charges on an item that already has a pathetic margin.

Stavros Murphy

Calibos wrote: »

FFS, you don't take cards! What kind of stone age newsagent is this?

The kind that doesn't want the inevitable queue that builds up behind you nor want to lose another 1.5% in transaction charges on an item that already has a pathetic margin.

Tough. Me and the Queen have one thing in common, we both have a bit of Greek in us occasionally, no, sorry, cash, some crap about cash, jasis, I forget me point now.

anncoates

I remember being 15 too.

shruikan2553

Where are people shopping that take debit for sales below 10 euro? I tried going cashless for a week but still needed change because everywhere except the self service at tesco required a minimum spend. Tesco was the one place that I would meet a minimum spend!

Mr. G

A while back I was in Aldi in a queue. You know how it goes and there was a woman in front of me.

She was next and the cashier scanning through her groceries.

Came to total lets say €56.09. She got her handbag. Opened the handbag. Reaches for the purse, eventually found it and the started getting the money. Coins fell on the floor and whatnot. Eventually she ran out and had say €55 in total. Then she went "Actually, do you take laser?".

This wasn't the first time I saw that happening either.

delw

Sand wrote: »

People paying for small purchases with a debit or credit card with the inherent delay. I did this once in my life at the end of a night out where the ATM in the shop was out of service. But I'm seeing people doing it more and more often these days to buy the paper or a packet of cigarettes.

Maybe these people have less than €20 left in their bank & use the debit card to pay for items

Mr. G

delw wrote: »

Maybe these people have less than €20 left in their bank & use the debit card to pay for items

Some ATMs allow you to withdraw €10's...

delw

Mr. G wrote: »

Some ATMs allow you to withdraw €10's...

I haven't come across one yet & i certainly wouldn't go searching for one if i can just use a card

Mr. G

delw wrote: »

I haven't come across one yet & i certainly wouldn't go searching for one if i can just use a card

Yeah I've come across them rarely. The majority of them will have €50's and then €20's. Taking out €50 isn't always ideal though.

A lot of retailers now have a minimum amount you have to spend to use a card.

darkpagandeath

Mr. G wrote: »

Yeah I've come across them rarely. The majority of them will have €50's and then €20's. Taking out €50 isn't always ideal though.

A lot of retailers now have a minimum amount you have to spend to use a card.

That Illegal to have a minimum spend amount on a debit card report shops you see doing that. And 20c per transaction per ATM to see if you can get a €10 note yeah good luck with that.

kneemos

EyeSight wrote: »

That's more down to the store than the customer. I'm in America at the moment and you can pay for small purchases just by swiping or taping your card. It's incredibly fast and easy. Some places in Dublin have it now. Faster than counting out change or queuing at an ATM
I hate carrying around change and try to pay for as much as possible on card

Is there a thirty cent charge or something and that's why nobody uses it?

mikemac1

Mr. G wrote: »

Some ATMs allow you to withdraw €10's...

I'm not doubting you but I've not come across this for years, probably over 3

Femme_Fatale

It's not our fault that women's handbags are made in such a way that you can never find anything in them, ever.

Angry_Mammarys

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

It's not our fault that women's handbags are made in such a way that you can never find anything in them, ever.

This, seriously.. I'm convinced there's actually a vortex or black hole or something in mine.

Femme_Fatale

Numerous times I have searched my bag thoroughly for my phone to the point of assuming I left it somewhere else, and asked someone to phone it - only for it to ring from the recesses of my bag.

Angry_Mammarys

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Numerous times I have searched my bag thoroughly for my phone to the point of assuming I left it somewhere else, and asked someone to phone it - only for it to ring from the recesses of my bag.

Happened to me today! I was about to swing my bag out the window I was so frustrated. seriously just considering wearing a fanny pack from now on, less hassle:(

Femme_Fatale

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Irish Times readers do tend to let you know they have a copy of the paper in their hands by making it as visible as possible.

I'd say they no more make their copy of The Irish Times visible than someone makes their copy of The Sun visible.

Hell Ram

I hang around the freezer looking sad in the hope some kind hearted soul will buy me a Cornetto.

Ihatecuddles

Hell Ram wrote: »

I hang around the freezer looking sad in the hope some kind hearted soul will buy me a Cornetto.

I once had a complete meltdown because my OH wouldn't go to the shop in the rain, late at night, to buy me a cornetto

littlelulu

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

So you run in, as you do, to a newsagent to pick up a few overpriced things and run out.

Shoplifting is not cool!!

Hell Ram

mauzo! wrote: »

I once had a complete meltdown because my OH wouldn't go to the shop in the rain, late at night, to buy me a cornetto

I get that. They are that tasty!

Would always get one on a Sunday...back in the day! Best 50p you could spend in the shop!

sligojoek

I don't know about other bamks but AIB do a visa debit card now that you can use wirelessly on amounts up to €15. Any more than that and you need to enter your PIN. Very handy if I'm only getting one or two bits and pieces. Or if there's only 12 or 13 quid in my account.

mikemac1

Just one Cornetto
Give it to me
You must be joking
They cost 50p

Back in 1990 the three tenors were household names

stoneill

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

Happened to me today! I was about to swing my bag out the window I was so frustrated. seriously just considering wearing a fanny pack from now on, less hassle:(

Fanny pack -heh heh heh- that's a gee bag.

Rabies

Sand wrote: »

People paying for small purchases with a debit or credit card with the inherent delay. I did this once in my life at the end of a night out where the ATM in the shop was out of service. But I'm seeing people doing it more and more often these days to buy the paper or a packet of cigarettes.

What is wrong with that?
No change in your pocket :-/

bumper234

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

So you run in, as you do, to a newsagent to pick up a few overpriced things and run out. I find newsagents irritable places mostly because of others around me.

I have 2 main complaints

1. I judge people on the newspaper they are buying.

I do. If I happen to be in a newsagent and I see someone heading to the counter with a copy of the Irish Times or Sunday Independent I think - suave, sophisticated, cultured. I see someone with the Sun or the Mirror for example I think - scum.

I don't mean to! It's just an automated response to a visual stimulus.


2. Women with their hand bags. Have the change ready before you reach the counter please. All that routing around does actually annoy the queue behind you.

Is it really all that hard or degrading to you as a woman to have the change in your pocket or paws ready to go?


I could include random gang of feral youth but i'd leave that to someone else.

What a pompous asshole you come across as with that statement.

I read the mirror every day my father read it and so did his father, it's the paper i grew up with and i enjoy reading it. I have a degree from Trinity and work upper management for a large semi state body.

Funnily enough the people who have caused the biggest damage to this country and the most harm to it's people would have been the so called "suave, sophisticated, cultured people" who read the Times and sindo. Next time you see a suit with the Irish Times and an overall wearing lad with the Sun maybe you should ask yourself which one is really the scum.

Penny Tration

bumper234 wrote: »

What a pompous asshole you come across as with that statement.

I read the mirror every day my father read it and so did his father, it's the paper i grew up with and i enjoy reading it. I have a degree from Trinity and work upper management for a large semi state body.

Funnily enough the people who have caused the biggest damage to this country and the most harm to it's people would have been the so called "suave, sophisticated, cultured people" who read the Times and sindo. Next time you see a suit with the Irish Times and an overall wearing lad with the Sun maybe you should ask yourself which one is really the scum.

I read the Times and I'm far from sophisticated and cultured.

Akrasia

darkpagandeath wrote: »

That Illegal to have a minimum spend amount on a debit card report shops you see doing that. And 20c per transaction per ATM to see if you can get a €10 note yeah good luck with that.

Its not illegal, debit cards are not legal tender
And it costs 35 cents every time you use your debit card, either in an ATM or at the till. (if you're with AIB the theiving bstards)

Grayson

bumper234 wrote: »

What a pompous asshole you come across as with that statement.

I read the mirror every day my father read it and so did his father, it's the paper i grew up with and i enjoy reading it. I have a degree from Trinity and work upper management for a large semi state body.

Funnily enough the people who have caused the biggest damage to this country and the most harm to it's people would have been the so called "suave, sophisticated, cultured people" who read the Times and sindo. Next time you see a suit with the Irish Times and an overall wearing lad with the Sun maybe you should ask yourself which one is really the scum.

So we agree, times readers are more likely to embezzle, mirror readers are more likely to beat you up at 2am for a laugh.

JustAddWater

3. Why do women carry routers in their handbag

Mr. G

darkpagandeath wrote: »

That Illegal to have a minimum spend amount on a debit card report shops you see doing that. And 20c per transaction per ATM to see if you can get a €10 note yeah good luck with that.

Cash & Coins in Euro are the only form of legal tender in Ireland. I cannot see how this is true to be honest.

KilOit

Akrasia wrote: »

Its not illegal, debit cards are not legal tender
And it costs 35 cents every time you use your debit card, either in an ATM or at the till. (if you're with AIB the theiving bstards)

I think if you have 3k in your current acount you get free banking