How do you queue?

strelok · 13-09-2015 10:33pm

timthumbni wrote: »

Queues happen and in themselves don't really bother me. However what really does get me is a sizeable number or women (not being sexist simply reality here) who wait until the till attendant says the price of their purchases before coming up with that look.

You know the "What. £45.40. I'm expected to pay for these goods I've just purchased? Right here, right now? Well hold on just let me now fiddle about with my handbag straps. Next thing you know contents of said handbag are laid out on counter. Umbrella, make up, tampons, banana etc.... Then wait another while whilst I search through my ridiculously oversized purse for my cash.

It's completely ridiculous and uncalled for. Why girls have to carry their life's work in a handbag is beyond me. I refuse now to get anything from my girlfriends handbag if she asks me after spending about 3 hours in the past looking for her glasses and finding everything but. :-)

i dont understand why they can't just earmark one tiny little pocket on the giant ****ing handbags for this purpose. get handed change, dump in pocket. take shopping and walk away from the till. then open tiny little pocket and spend 2 minutes sorting all your bits of change into the thousand different places it apparently needs to go.

starling · 13-09-2015 10:34pm

Turtyturd wrote: »

Outside the personal space of whoever is front of me.

Also if you're the f*cker who comes up to tell the person there's a till available when they know it's out of order, stop that sh*t.

Omg People do that on purpose?! That's fookin evil

starling · 13-09-2015 10:37pm

strelok wrote: »

i dont understand why they can't just earmark one tiny little pocket on the giant ****ing handbags for this purpose. get handed change, dump in pocket. take shopping and walk away from the till. then open tiny little pocket and spend 2 minutes sorting all your bits of change into the thousand different places it apparently needs to go.

I hate carrying handbags, but if I have to, I'll always use a handbag organiser. But then I am a sewing nerd and am constantly sewing extra pockets into bags to avoid this fishing-around-for-things bollx

strelok · 13-09-2015 10:38pm

starling wrote: »

I hate carrying handbags, but if I have to, I'll always use a handbag organiser. But then I am a sewing nerd and am constantly sewing extra pockets into bags to avoid this fishing-around-for-things bollx

when the revolution comes, you will be spared

Tarzana2 · 13-09-2015 10:41pm

efb wrote: »

I didn't mention anything about catching a bus. I don't do things that involve queuing if I'm in a hurry.

You replied to a post I made about not leaving lots of things to do before catching a bus.

Anyway, what is your point then? Someone does things at an ATM which probably won't actually take that long (and are NOT comparable to someone filling a 2L bottle at a cooler) and you don't like it? Well, once again, live with it. It might be a slow ATM (lots of these around), the person might be vision impaired, or yeah, maybe they might just need to do one or two extra things at the ATM, like you yourself have probably needed to do at some stage. OMG, you have to wait 30 seconds extra? A minute extra? THE HUMANITY!

Let's not pretend this is anything other than you being impatient and thinking your time is more important than everyone else's.

timthumbni · 13-09-2015 10:45pm

strelok wrote: »

i dont understand why they can't just earmark one tiny little pocket on the giant ****ing handbags for this purpose. get handed change, dump in pocket. take shopping and walk away from the till. then open tiny little pocket and spend 2 minutes sorting all your bits of change into the thousand different places it apparently needs to go.

It's common knowledge that The Doctor Who tardis was based on my girlfriend's freaking handbag. If she took a dalek out of it sometime I would not be surprised.

I always have money/card in hand at till. Quick, efficient, no fuss. If only some girls had the same idea. Rarely have the same issue with fellas. Mostly women, of all ages, including my own girlfriend. Madness.

NachoBusiness · 13-09-2015 10:52pm

I fill two baskets both with same items, then skip the queue and leave one of the baskets beside the cashier with the exact amount of money and a note that says: "Scan these will ya. I'm a bit busy!" and then walk out. Have I stolen anything? I thought so.

Nah, I usually just spend the time contemplating life's woes.
Looking down girls tops. Stuff like that.

efb · 13-09-2015 10:57pm

Tarzana2 wrote: »

You replied to a post I made about not leaving lots of things to do before catching a bus.

Anyway, what is your point then? Someone does things at an ATM which probably won't actually take that long (and are NOT comparable to someone filling a 2L bottle at a cooler) and you don't like it? Well, once again, live with it. It might be a slow ATM (lots of these around), the person might be vision impaired, or yeah, maybe they might just need to do one or two extra things at the ATM, like you yourself have probably needed to do at some stage. OMG, you have to wait 30 seconds extra? A minute extra? THE HUMANITY!

Let's not pretend this is anything other than you being impatient and thinking your time is more important than everyone else's.

No it's time wasters and dawdlers I have the issue with. You seem to think you know my number or something which is very lovable , unless you were one of the slow cashiers I called out earlier and I riled you.

Tarzana2 · 13-09-2015 11:02pm

efb wrote: »

No it's time wasters and dawdlers I have the issue with.

Called out? Lollers. You go, girlfrien'. *snaps fingers* :pac:

They don't seem to be dawdlers at all. In my experience, people who are impatient in queues consider everyone ahead of them to be dawdlers. And act like dawdlers themselves on occasion. But that's them and not other people, so that's fine of course.

It's like people complaining about slow walkers on footpaths. What, you've never, ever walked slowly yourself in your lifetime? Yeah right.

efb · 13-09-2015 11:02pm

Tarzana2 wrote: »

I know nobody likes queuing but suck it up. It's a thing you have to do. Lidl and Aldi help make it a bit less painful but sometimes I'm not keen on the "groceries being flung at me" approach either. And as you have to pack after the till in Lidl and Aldi as opposed to during in places like Tesco, not that much time is even saved.

Suck it up! After hours is where I come to let it out! I don't go mental in the annoying queues

efb · 13-09-2015 11:04pm

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Who don't seem to be this at all. In my experience, people who are impatient in queues consider everyone ahead of them to be dawdlers. And act like dawdlers themselves on occasion. But that's them and not other people, so that's fine of course.

It's like people complaining about slow walkers on footpaths. What, you've never, ever walked slowly yourself in your lifetime? Yeah right.

Yeah but you have an awareness of others who need to pass. I used have to rush for a train I'd speed walk the hell out of it, now I don't I have to I just let the people in a rush go by

efb · 13-09-2015 11:05pm

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Called out? Lollers. You go, girlfrien'. *snaps fingers* :pac:

They don't seem to be dawdlers at all. In my experience, people who are impatient in queues consider everyone ahead of them to be dawdlers. And act like dawdlers themselves on occasion. But that's them and not other people, so that's fine of course.

It's like people complaining about slow walkers on footpaths. What, you've never, ever walked slowly yourself in your lifetime? Yeah right.

Oh no she didn't!

NachoBusiness · 13-09-2015 11:06pm

efb wrote: »

This one woman in Lidl thought it was ok to pay in coppers... I could have smashed her head off the till

Stupid bitch.

Sure Coppers don't even take Clubcard. I've asked.

efb · 13-09-2015 11:06pm

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Stupid bitch.

Sure Coppers don't even take the Clubcard, I've asked.

Coppers probably take Super valu stamps or a bag of potatoes

strelok · 13-09-2015 11:07pm

efb wrote: »

Oh no she didn't!

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efb · 13-09-2015 11:08pm

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Called out? Lollers. You go, girlfrien'. *snaps fingers* :pac:

They don't seem to be dawdlers at all. In my experience, people who are impatient in queues consider everyone ahead of them to be dawdlers. And act like dawdlers themselves on occasion. But that's them and not other people, so that's fine of course.

It's like people complaining about slow walkers on footpaths. What, you've never, ever walked slowly yourself in your lifetime? Yeah right.

Would you consider the woman fishing for coppers in her purse to pay when she had €5 note in her hand acceptable? She handed over at least 30, even the checkout girl wasn't amused

efb · 13-09-2015 11:12pm

What am I saying! Coppers discount Card is Garda ID or an INMO card!

freshpopcorn · 13-09-2015 11:13pm

efb wrote: »

Would you consider the woman fishing for coppers in her purse to pay when she had €5 note in her hand acceptable? She handed over at least 30, even the checkout girl wasn't amused

Most people I know who work in shops are delighted to get change more so than a five euro note because it's a pain if they run out of change.

Tarzana2 · 13-09-2015 11:14pm

efb wrote: »

Would you consider the woman fishing for coppers in her purse to pay when she had €5 note in her hand acceptable? She handed over at least 30, even the checkout girl wasn't amused

Isolated incident, surely? How often has something like that actually happened to you? Yes, occasionally people take the piss but generally the fault is on the side of the impatient knob in the queue.

starling · 13-09-2015 11:14pm

efb wrote: »

Would you consider the woman fishing for coppers in her purse to pay when she had €5 note in her hand acceptable? She handed over at least 30, even the checkout girl wasn't amused

Nah that's a bit much, what I always do is, save up all the sh1te and take it to somewhere that has those change machines. You know the ones where you dump in all your change and you can choose to either have a voucher to spend in the shop that's the exact amount you have put in, or else you can take cash less 10% or whatever. Tesco has them and so does my local centra. But maybe people don't know about them?

efb · 13-09-2015 11:16pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Most people I know who work in shops are delighted to get change more so than a five euro note because it's a pain if they run out of change.

pay for something worth over €2 in 5,2 and 1 cent coins? I think their tills are timed so I doubt they appreciate it, and:

The following is an extract from the Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998:

“10(1) No person, other than the Central Bank of Ireland and such persons as may be designated by the Minister by order, shall be obliged to accept more than 50 coins denominated in euro or in cent in any single transaction.”

`its not as if she had it bagged either!!!! She went on the list!

efb · 13-09-2015 11:18pm

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Isolated incident, surely? How often has something like that actually happened to you? Yes, occasionally people take the piss but generally the fault is on the side of the impatient knob in the queue.

My knob does get impatient some times, but never has it happened queuing in a supermarket or at an atm....

Don't call me Shirley! :-P

freshpopcorn · 13-09-2015 11:23pm

efb wrote: »

pay for something worth over €2 in 5,2 and 1 cent coins? I think their tills are timed so I doubt they appreciate it, and:

The following is an extract from the Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998:

“10(1) No person, other than the Central Bank of Ireland and such persons as may be designated by the Minister by order, shall be obliged to accept more than 50 coins denominated in euro or in cent in any single transaction.”

`its not as if she had it bagged either!!!! She went on the list!

What I was referring to was somebody paying about 50 cent in change. Not a lot of money.
If you every worked in a shop. It's very annoying when somebody gives you a €5 and they have the correct change in their hand because it's very annoying running out of change and your giving the change you do have to somebody who has loads.

lulu1 · 13-09-2015 11:25pm

SimonTemplar wrote: »

Standing at a queue and you're the next in line, another cashier opens a till and says "next please", then the person standing behind you sprints to that till as if his life depended on it.

Sorry but I was in a mad rush that day

efb · 13-09-2015 11:26pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What I was referring to was somebody paying about 50 cent in change. Not a lot of money.
If you every worked in a shop. It's very annoying when somebody gives you a €5 and they have the correct change in their hand because it's very annoying running out of change.

50 is fine, (unless counting out in 1 & 2 cents individually being dished out of a purse that was buried in a massive handbag.

If I was dictator there would be no cash! Plastic or EFT only!

efb · 13-09-2015 11:27pm

lulu1 wrote: »

Sorry but I was in a mad rush that day

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeellll! You made him want to shout!!!

NachoBusiness · 13-09-2015 11:28pm

There's more tension in the self service queue in Tesco on Parnell St than I'd say there is in the canteen in the Joy.
Last night a 10c coin I was using kept being rejected by the machine. Eventually the cashier had to go and fetch another one.
Thought I was gonna get striped by people trying to buy alcohol just before the 10pm deadline kicked in.

freshpopcorn · 13-09-2015 11:29pm

efb wrote: »

50 is fine, (unless counting out in 1 & 2 cents individually being dished out of a purse that was buried in a massive handbag.

If I was dictator there would be no cash! Plastic or EFT only!

How would pensioners who get paid at the local post office shop then?
Get all payments paid in bank accounts and close local post offices.

efb · 13-09-2015 11:31pm

NachoBusiness wrote: »

There's more tension in the self service queue in Tesco on Parnell St than I'd say there is in the canteen in the Joy.
Last night a 10c coin I was using kept being rejected by the machine. Eventually the cashier had to go and fetch another one.
Thought I was gonna get stripped by people trying to by alcohol just before the 10pm deadline.

That's brave. Or foolish. Depends how bad the injuries were.

efb · 13-09-2015 11:33pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

How would pensioners who get paid at the local post office shop then?
Get all payments paid in bank accounts and close local post offices.

Yes. Save the government money. And the post offices won't be robbed as much.

Any account that accepts EFT. I know some credit unions do. And old people get free banking.

How do you queue?

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