She flips off the cashier!
ETA: See *that* might be considered rude anywhere.
You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Daisy Jane - Jun 15, 2010 9:53:08 am PDT #22570 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Polter-Cow - Jun 15, 2010 9:53:13 am PDT #22571 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You bring a camel?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 15, 2010 9:57:49 am PDT #22572 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now if only my fellow shoppers would learn how to fucking USE THEM, I'd be golden.
Given that it seems like waaaayyyy too many people haven't figured out how to use ATMs (including a friend who always loses his card because he's used to the machines that give you the card back right away and the other types confuse him), I hold out little hope of them mastering the self-checkout kiosk.
Hil R. - Jun 15, 2010 9:58:59 am PDT #22573 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I was explicitly taught as a child (like, we had actual discussions about this in school) that, if you're buying something or conducting some other business that requires waiting on a line, and there are people on line behind you, then it's rude to take any more time than just the amount you need to get done whatever you need to do. Standing around chatting with the cashier while there are people behind me waiting to buy things just feels so wrong.
Miracleman - Jun 15, 2010 9:59:44 am PDT #22574 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Self check-out:
"Lady, just scan the UPC. The UPC. The fucking...THE BARCODE! No, see, you're just showing the bread to the glass and there's not, like, a camera or a guy in there, it's...there's these lasers and they scan the barco--DON'T STICK YOUR FACE ON THE--! Oh, great. Great, now she's blind. I'm never fucking getting out of here. Where's the express lane?"
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jun 15, 2010 10:02:56 am PDT #22575 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Hil: And that's why I loved New York. People say what they mean and get on with things. It's like a more fun, less passive-aggressive London.
DCJensen - Jun 15, 2010 10:03:08 am PDT #22576 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
The express lane? That's the one with four people lined up with full grocery carts.
Cass - Jun 15, 2010 10:03:08 am PDT #22577 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
"Lady, just scan the UPC. The UPC. The fucking...THE BARCODE! No, see, you're just showing the bread to the glass and there's not, like, a camera or a guy in there, it's...there's these lasers and they scan the barco--DON'T STICK YOUR FACE ON THE--! Oh, great. Great, now she's blind. I'm never fucking getting out of here. Where's the express lane?"
So much so.
And then there are places like IKEA which are all self-check now with, like, ONE register with a human. Normally that'd be fine with me but 1. people are often stupid. and 2. those stupid machines are so slow. I just want to beep things through, pay and get OUUUUUUUT! I swear the machine wants to just hang out and chat for a while instead. It's busy narrating what I did two minutes ago and I look insane because I am starting to get shirty with a machine.
It occurs to me that I might need an ice cream and a timeout today.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jun 15, 2010 10:03:43 am PDT #22578 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Ugh. I hate Ikea, in any country. I suspect even Sweden.
smonster - Jun 15, 2010 10:05:42 am PDT #22579 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Standing around chatting with the cashier while there are people behind me waiting to buy things just feels so wrong.
I mean, there's a whole spectrum, right? Don't go on five minutes after the order's done if there are ten people behind you. That is rude, not Southern, IMHO.