Asda and the helium balloon woman

oldone_2

The worst people to be behind in a supermarket are women.
They will talk all the time their purchases are being rung up. They will then rake around in their handbag for a card still talking. After several attempts they get their PIN number correct. Finally when the transaction is completed they produce money off coupons which it is too late to use. After a discussion on this they then start to pack, stopping to answer their mobile 'phone. And all of this is when they are in a hurry.

relic

One thing that annoys me is pensioners and other random people doing full shops between 8.30-9.00 am before I go to work, I always pick something up before work and can guarantee I waste ten minutes either behind someone doing a full shop at a kiosk, or someone checking 20 lottery tickets, or the two people who are on the dole using there money to buy £50 worth of random lottery tickets / stratch cards before moving on to the bookies.

Inforapennyinforapound

lollipopsarah wrote: »

I don't think you are allowed to have the helium cylinder in an open public area ( H & S).
As for waiting 10 minutes, that's not so long, you could have been behind someone checking their lottery/scratch cards - grr,
x

Good point about the cylinder,but in effect it was in a public area(on the window sill adjacent to the lottery counter).

Anyway in the whole scheme of things 10mins may not be a lifetime but when put in to context i.e a queue at the cig/newspaper counter in Asda it is a lifetime(standing and watching an assistant have a fight with a balloon )

Techhead_2

oldone wrote: »

The worst people to be behind in a supermarket are women.
They will talk all the time their purchases are being rung up. They will then rake around in their handbag for a card still talking. After several attempts they get their PIN number correct. Finally when the transaction is completed they produce money off coupons which it is too late to use. After a discussion on this they then start to pack, stopping to answer their mobile 'phone. And all of this is when they are in a hurry.

It's even worse at a cash point. Is it so hard to keep your card somewhere where you can easily find it? Perhaps one of those secure zipped compartments in the bag. Then you wouldn't need to rearrange all your bags before finding the card and putting the money away.

DCFC79

oldone wrote: »

The worst people to be behind in a supermarket are women.
They will talk all the time their purchases are being rung up. They will then rake around in their handbag for a card still talking or on the mobile and 1 hand searching in the bag

After several attempts they get their PIN number correct. Finally when the transaction is completed they produce money off coupons which it is too late to use. After a discussion on this they then start to pack, stopping to answer their mobile 'phone yep ive seen this, they dont do things in a logical order

. And all of this is when they are in a hurry.

just a few bits

Rolandtheroadie

Techhead wrote: »

It's even worse at a cash point. Is it so hard to keep your card somewhere where you can easily find it? Perhaps one of those secure zipped compartments in the bag. Then you wouldn't need to rearrange all your bags before finding the card and putting the money away.

Thats what was coming into my head as I read oldone's post as well.

They've always got more than one card and they proceed to check them all before deciding what one to take money out of.

vikingaero

scotsman4th wrote: »

Thats what was coming into my head as I read oldone's post as well.

They've always got more than one card and they proceed to check them all before deciding what one to take money out of.

Nail on the head there.

And why do women have to request every service that a cashpoint offers? When they print out a mini-statement they look at it in amazement for 60 seconds before filing the receipt and card away in their handbag.

dizziblonde

vikingaero wrote: »

Nail on the head there.

And why do women have to request every service that a cashpoint offers? When they print out a mini-statement they look at it in amazement for 60 seconds before filing the receipt and card away in their handbag.

In the case of my mini-statements it's usually more a look of horror, pain and anguish than amazement.