VENT ! Rabbiting at the Checkout ?

passatrider

Slightly off topic..

What about the women who think it's acceptable to swim up and down in pairs taking up a lot of space and chatting the whole time? They cause so much grief to other swimmers as they end up taking over half of the pool oblivious to others that are around them.

Go and find a bus stop!

Dave_C_2

passatrider wrote: »

Slightly off topic..

You mean completely off topic

What about the women who think it's acceptable to swim up and down in pairs taking up a lot of space and chatting the whole time? They cause so much grief to other swimmers as they end up taking over half of the pool oblivious to others that are around them.

These would be the women who have paid good money to have a session in the swimming pool and have the nerve to actually swim in the swimming pool! Isn't this the primary purpose of the swimming pool?

How does a pair of women take up over half the pool?
How are they giving you grief? It's not as if they are shouting at the top of their voices, constantly jumping off the side, splashing everyone around them, suddenly changing direction and bumping into people. They are just having a quiet swim.

Dave

Mista_C

In defence of the ladies things wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't 20 checkouts but only 2 or 3 in service at any one time.

My bug bear is cash dispensers. One time I arrived just behind a lady in her late 30s/early 40s. It took her almost 15 minutes to get her cash and in the meantime a queue was building up behind me.
I could hear her tapping buttons throughout, then some cash dispensed, then she put that in her purse and took her notice slip. Then she pops out another card from her purse and I could hear buttons tapping again.

At the end she turned away from the cash point and was obstructing anyone else from using it while messing about in her bag, I asked her "Did you win?" she replied "uh?", I said "I could hear the repetitive beeping, I thought you were playing Pacman on there".

SevenOfNine

You men should enjoy the novelty of finding yourselves behind a female at a checkout who's only able to do one thing at a time, given that this is ordinarily a male speciality!

Most of the women I'm behind are keeping an eye on the children they have with them, chatting, packing, paying............I've yet to be behind a man able to juggle the 4 tasks at once.

arcon5

EycplUK wrote: »

Never !!! If i want to be a checkout operator i`ll get a job in a supermarket !

It's not about wanting to or enjoying scanning your own goods - it's about wanting the quickest and easiest way to pay for your goods and leave. Which is often self service.

SevenOfNine wrote: »

You men should enjoy the novelty of finding yourselves behind a female at a checkout who's only able to do one thing at a time, given that this is ordinarily a male speciality!

Most of the women I'm behind are keeping an eye on the children they have with them, chatting, packing, paying............I've yet to be behind a man able to juggle the 4 tasks at once.

Oh no... not this whole men can't multi-task nonsense.

Mista_C

arcon5 wrote: »

Oh no... not this whole men can't multi-task nonsense.

Yeah, I used to have a female manager who would go on about how men can't multi-task. I used to tell her I'd rather do one job properly than lots of jobs half-assed

Azari

arcon5 wrote: »

Oh no... not this whole men can't multi-task nonsense.

Yes, it's one of those annoying myths that someone states and suddenly everyone takes it as gospel. (Rather like the old idea that women couldn't drive very well.)

It probably sprang from the fact that whilst it's quite possible do keep an eye on some cooking, watch the children and do some hoovering it's pretty well impossible to mow the lawn and strip down an engine whilst rewiring the house.

So it's more about the historical distribution of tasks than any innate difference between the sexes.

Although, having said that, I'm a man and am not good at multitasking.

SevenOfNine

My 'multi tasking' comment was aimed specifically to see if the male species could 'take' what they like to dish out........sexist comments!

Clearly not, so if you don't like them aimed at you then perhaps you might think twice before jumping on the bandwagon to dish it out.

kiss_me_now9

passatrider wrote: »

Slightly off topic..

What about the women who think it's acceptable to swim up and down in pairs taking up a lot of space and chatting the whole time? They cause so much grief to other swimmers as they end up taking over half of the pool oblivious to others that are around them.

Go and find a bus stop!

Ah I bloody hate this. When there's only three lanes in the pool available (my local pool has county training most nights and they take 7 out of the ten lanes) and you've got in lane 1, 5 people swimming up each others !!!!!!, in lane 2, three people swimming like they're being chased like sharks and in lane 3, two dotty inevitably overweight older ladies chatting about their teacup dogs and what they got up to in the tea shop this morning. I want to swim too!

VSynth

In Tesco I had some woman rabbiting to the checkout lady one night, they obviously knew each other.

I had gone in late after work, 10PM, and hoped for a quick checkout, no such luck.

After a couple of minutes chatting she went to walk away, then realised she hadn't paid yet...patience was wearing thin I can tell you :mad: