You been in that line those people, right? I'm old so I remember waiting in line FOREVER just to have the lady in front of me pull out her checkbook and slowly write her check after it's all added up. Or the old lady and her change purse. Way before credit cards (a blessing.)
I am not sure I want that with cheese or not. The Coke sounds great but maybe I'm feeling Sprite today? Let me call my wife an check. What are the ingredients in the Reshmi Paneer? Can you repeat that. Can I pay in change?
I worked in an ice cream shop in high school. This reminds me of the people who would wait until they were in the front of the line to say “I don’t know what I want”, then tasted multiple flavors and finally said “I’ll have vanilla”.
ugh, those people. Like there are menus everywhere. especially if it's a place like shake shack with 5 things like this wasn't hard. or if it's a place like "ok, that comes with 2 sides" & person is like "sides?" for the love of god, https://read.the.menu. some ?s are in fact dumb ?s.
That's like the people in grocery checkout. They stand there and don't put the groceries in the cart. After everything is scanned, they look for their card.
Standing in line 10 minutes at the dollar store and the person in front of you FINALLY gets called up and it takes her 5 minutes to find the exact change, 9 different pockets in her backpack, her purse, her front and back pockets of her jeans and her coat pockets.I was gonna just pay the for her
I'm going back a bunch of years, the people that wait until after all of their items are scanned and being bagged up before they even START filling out a BLANK check.
Still better than people who hold a table before one of their group even gets in line. We once ate a whole meal standing up beside a table being held and when we finished they still didn't have their food.
Another shout out to people in grocery lines to whom it never occurs they will have to pay for their groceries until they see the total, then begin searching for wallet and credit card.
Or, wait in line for 10 minutes then get to
the register anddecide to fumble around trying to find your form of payment. I mean, really you had 10 minutes to get ready. Get your head out of your ass and pay the fuck attention!
Or the cannabis dispensaries. Here, you pre-order online but there's always the people who want to go in the store and ask a billion questions. The stores are not allowed to merchandise, by law, so there is nothing to see. If you order online you can at least see pictures and descriptions!
Yes, it's one of my longtime pet peeves. But mine is at coffee houses where you're the fourth or fifth in line, and when it's the person in front of you's turn, they start perusing the muffin display, looking over the menu, and considering their options...grrrr
patience is a virtue ... maybe they cannot see well. shout out to the jerks in the line who are so impatient they think being miserable will speed things up ...
Menus can be frustrating—especially those tiny, ever-changing digital ones. Tim Hortons at YVR? It’s a mess. Same deal at Subway near my home—half the time, you can’t even read what’s on the menu. Got pics? That’d help show how bad it is—and how dumb the customer was.
It's a new version of standing at checkout for ten minutes and then waiting until the last item is rung up, to start fishing around in your purse...for a checkbook!
The other day I went to a restaurant that I’d never been to before and so didn’t know the menu. Turns out that it’s very easy to step aside and let other people go ahead of you while you read the menu!
Or empty a cartload on groceries at checkout, then wait for the cashier to tell them the total before they start rummaging for their wallet.
Cashier said thank you, groceries are bagged and back in the cart, and they just stand there organizing their wallet or looking at messages...MOVE!
Their grandma is the woman at the supermarket checkout who only thinks to root around in her pocketbook for cash or card until after everything has been rung up and bagged, as though until then it never occurred to her that she would have to pay.
I once waited in line at a sub shop for 10 minutes only to find out I was in line for the bathroom. I nearly shit my pants. I was so pissed. I think I had the meatball sub to go. Etc...
I was once behind a woman in a Taco Bell drive thru who ordered something and asked for no sour cream. Ordered another item and asked for sour cream. When told it cost extra she asked for the sour cream deleted from the previous item be added to this item. They argued for 5 minutes.
Same people at the grocery checkout who wait until the checkout clerk tells the total. Then they peer worriedly at the screen with said total and finally get their wallet out to pay. Bonus points if they still pay by check and get the checkbook out at the very last second.
In my youth I worked at McDonald's. MCFRICKINDONALD'S! People would stand in line and then, in all seriousness, ask if we had hot dogs. They didn't pay us enough then and they don't pay the staff enough now.
When I was a bartender that would happen even on nights when we were in the weeds, three deep at the bar with customers waving money to get the bartenders’ attention. You’d finally get to somebody and say what can I get you and they’d go “hmmm…let’s see”.
Had a customer argue with me about the price of the beer on St Patrick's Day Parade Day. "The price today, is the price today. You don't want to pay it? Then get the fuck out & go be a problem at some other place. You're costing ME money!"
I did this once to a sorority girl, went all the way to the other end of the bar and then back, serving everyone, and then when I reached her again she said “that was rude!”
Wait did he also ask the employee’s name and then start addressing them by name in a folksy manner and ask them which menu items are dairy- and gluten-free?
There's an old school cafe/greasy spoon near Westminster, where you get some variation of bacon/eggs/sausage/beans and toast, where it is made extremely clear to everyone that if you're not ready to order at the till, you don't get to order
There's a place in South Carolina called "The Beacon" where if you get to the front of the line and you don't know what you want, they send you to the back of the line.
Worked at McD’s in college, football weekend, huge lines. Guy gets all the way to the register and asks me how much a Big Mac is. I looked at him, said, “Well, let’s look at the menu,” turned around, found it, and then recited the price to him.
Once I was in a restaurant at the shore where they offered outdoor seating and this woman in front of me (it had been a long line) got up to the hostess and couldn't decide if she wanted to sit inside or out. Then she asked if the outdoor was air conditioned! I couldn't help laughing out loud!
Or wait until you get to the front of the line to try and open the store app to see if you have any coupons. Ooops hmmmm what is my password to open the app?
I like the ones with kids who can’t read and then have an extended discussion with the kid about what they might like after they get to the from of the line.
The thing that I used to hate was being behind someone who has watched a full cart get scanned then starts bagging. Then the cashier will say "that's x pounds please" only then does it dawn on them that they have to pay and they start searching through their bag/coat/pockets for their wallet.
TO BE FAIR, the text on some of those LCD screen menus is now smaller than it was in the '70s, and doesn't stay on the same screen for more than about 10 seconds at a time, so I am not going to give people standing in line shit about not parsing that until they have to.
Then there's the hollering back to their dining partners about what they want, which then begins a dialog about what's on the menu.
These people travel in packs.
Related: Take-out places where the only place there's a menu is up high on the wall up front, in print too small to read through the wrong part of my bifocals. Have some cards made up and put them back at the door.
Also: When you go to vote, look at the sample ballot ahead of time.
I feel this. When I can see the menu initially, I usually pick an item at first glance that will be “fine.” If I can’t decide from the menu in a reasonable amount of time, I get “fine” or what other people order ahead of me.
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At least they aren't writing checks anymore.
The world needs to understand what’s wrong with them 🤔😵💫🤯
I order and tell the cashier exactly what I want before they even ask.
the register anddecide to fumble around trying to find your form of payment. I mean, really you had 10 minutes to get ready. Get your head out of your ass and pay the fuck attention!
THEN take out a checkbook to start writing.
aarrrrrrrrggggggggg!!!
“Shout out to the people who wait in line for takeout for twenty minutes and wait until they get to the front to start looking at the menu”
Cashier said thank you, groceries are bagged and back in the cart, and they just stand there organizing their wallet or looking at messages...MOVE!
"Two combos and a side of pita chips" is our order.
— Sonshi
Or just human nature, either way first world problems.
Understandable but if I am going to be honest half of the time that would be me.
At McDonald's how can you possibly not know what you want in advance?
At movie theater concessions.
At concert merch lines.
It's infuriating.
Are you fucking kidding me?
And we’d say “NEXT!” & go to the next guy.
“Next!”
https://youtu.be/GmFDtgfgyD8?si=hq3qZ34LeUotD-9I
"What's good here?"
Me behind him, thinking: "You dumb mf, it's Burger King!"
“Alright let me pop open Bluesky and see what my favorite Princeton professor was up to today…”
“Are those expensive?”
“Oh no, I don’t like those, don’t you have anything else?”
Get on the stick, Nigel.
💙😂💙✌️💙
https://youtu.be/KmlDtR_CQRc?si=RwiZ0fe9YXn4qDae
https://youtu.be/-U-JZyn2EfQ?si=gBsJYN8Sl6i77dCX
Or they leave to grab change cos they hate pennies.
And let's not talk about "boob money".
Something is $4.05 and they have $3 and a $20 and want to give me $3 🤣
"Does this work for you at Walmart?"
Guy in front ‘What kind do you have?’
These people travel in packs.
Also: When you go to vote, look at the sample ballot ahead of time.