Woman and paying for things!Rant!

simu

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Do you think that's something to be proud of?

Oh but of course. It will see us through nukular winth0r.

seamus

It's certainly something which affects women moreso than men in my experience, but it's by no means an "all women" thing;
The inability to plan for the immediate future.

You see them doing it all over the place, not just in the supermarket. How many times have you been in a car with, or behind, a woman who pulls up to a roundabout (or any junction), stops dead, puts the car in first gear and then looks at the junction to see if there's any traffic coming?

Pigman II

Hmmm, your theories facinate me.

I am going to rush off to tescos now and see if they will impliment a "ten women or less" aisle in their checkouts.

JC 2K3

Degsy wrote:

This isnt geneder specific but i ****in hate people who buy sandwiches or rolls in delis."I'd like a brown rolll,a white baguette,one with butter,one with margerine.Can ihave onion,pepper,sweetcorn and sliced turkey on one with chicken seeetcorn,onions,dried figs and pickles on the one without the butter,no sorry,on the one WITH the butter.Yeah,can i have some raisen obn that one,no that one.Yeah,and mayo on one with the mayo and without the mayo.THEN the coffee..three different nonsensical combinations for each order....what have we become??

Haha, that's fúcking hilarious!


What's more annoying is technologically impaired people trying to use the self checkouts in Tesco. They usuaully get past scanning the barcode all right, but then they don't put the item in the bagging area and proceed to try and scan the next item completely oblivious to the fact that the machine is shouting "Item removed from bagging area, please replace item in the bagging area" and after 5 minutes of trying to scan the next item they realise something is wrong, but even after putting the item back the take it off again and the assistant has to come over to help and even then they have to search for money to pay with. Meanwhile I've been standing for 20 minutes behind them with my bottle of coke and cheap Tesco biscuits and my €2 coin in my hand ready to complete my 10 second operation. I don't mean to stereotype, but it's mainly middle aged women......

snickerpuss

I'm agreeing fully with you on those self service checkouts, i don't know why elderly people think they can use them, takes hours!

I'm always trying to get money out in time but i always get muddled trying to pack my stuff and take change and put it back in bag and by then they're on to the next person and i hate being rushed!

They always do this in marks and sparks, i'm still packing my stuff and shes finished 3 other people already and we're all trying to pack at the bottom of the till.

Grrrrr.

ixoy

Just had a similar experience yesterday in Superquinn in Blackrock. The perma-tanned woman in front of me, buying just two pieces of fruit, proceeds to take out a brunch of (daddy's) credit cards, fan them out and examine them.

After this though, she decides that she won't need them and places them pack in the purse and hunt for the exact change instead, taking up enough time to have bought a botanical garden set, planted the seeds, nurtured them to maturity, and plucked the fruit and eaten it. Why can't some people understand the concept of having money ready for when they're going to pay?!

FranknFurter

Dunnes in blanchardstown shopping center has to be the worst for this.
More trollies at the express checkouts that in all the trolley only checkouts put together, none of them even thinking about money until the total is announced then looking like they thought it was all free as they slowly place bag on counter and count out all the bloody coins. (I HATE THESE CENT COINS!), to mumblings of "is it a five, oh its a one, oh haha no, its a two".... I just wanna scream at times.
(Also WHY is it that every thursday the "wide isle" both of them, are the only two closed tills in the entire store??)

b

simu

Folks, all I can say is online shopping and off-peak hours ftw!

astrofool

It seems to be an attention thing, that someone can take up all the attention of not only the sales assistant, but also everybody in the Queue. I know when I used to work in retail, I seemed to be the only one who could use the suspend key correctly, but it meant that i'd suspend any dilly dallying customer and move onto the next, as soon as that happened, said dilly dallier usually found a burst of speed, and went a little red from the direct looks from other customers.

fly_agaric

JC 2K3 wrote:

What's more annoying is technologically impaired people trying to use the self checkouts in Tesco. They usuaully get past scanning the barcode all right, but then they don't put the item in the bagging area and proceed to try and scan the next item completely oblivious to the fact that the machine is shouting "Item removed from bagging area, please replace item in the bagging area" and after 5 minutes of trying to scan the next item they realise something is wrong, but even after putting the item back the take it off again and the assistant has to come over to help and even then they have to search for money to pay with. Meanwhile I've been standing for 20 minutes behind them with my bottle of coke and cheap Tesco biscuits and my €2 coin in my hand ready to complete my 10 second operation. I don't mean to stereotype, but it's mainly middle aged women......

I'm glad the middle-aged women slow you down. I hate those fécking self-service checkouts and think people should boycott them.

TESCO - too damn cheap to pay the wages of checkout operators AND too cheap to trial a proper technological solution like RFID tags so they try to make their customers do the work - and pay for the priviledge. Lousy bástards!

jesus_thats_gre

In Dundrum Town Centre the other day.. Queue of 7 or 8 for the pay parking machines. She was in the queue for ages but only devided to go look for money when the machine told her how much it was.. It was 2euro and took here about 5 mins to search through her bag.. Could have ****ing killed someone..

Shellie13

ah we just got bigger handbags!!!
Lol-tho in fairness the time u wasted waiting for em probs dosnt amoiut to the time it took you to type ur rant!!!

Gordon

clown bag wrote:

Bananas are why loose change was invented.

lol

bounty

handbags are a crazy concept, wtf do you need to carry around all that junk for?

i have the notes in that mini pocket on right side of jeans, a few coins in the large right pocket, and the smallest wallet possible, containing only 4 cards, along with my 2 keys, in the left pocket

Capt'n Midnight

simu wrote:

But jeez, some people on this thread get way too stressed out - next time you're stuck in a queue, count in binary or imagine you're on a cool beach or whatever...

Takes deep breath and counts to 10

1
10
ARRRRHHHHHH !!!!



Anyone remember the Simpsons and Abu giving Marge advice on the fastest asile to use ?

Calibos

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Anyone remember the Simpsons and Abu giving Marge advice on the fastest asile to use ?

Yeah, I think the person who posted it about 2 pages ago remembers :D

alleepally

I had the very same rant on a thread going way back to 2004

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=181577

simu

bounty wrote:

handbags are a crazy concept, wtf do you need to carry around all that junk for?

i have the notes in that mini pocket on right side of jeans, a few coins in the large right pocket, and the smallest wallet possible, containing only 4 cards, along with my 2 keys, in the left pocket

So, every time you change trousers, you have to move all your stuff?

The problem is not with handbags anyway - you can get ones with compartments and have a fixed space for every item.

the_syco

simu wrote:

So, every time you change trousers, you have to move all your stuff?

No, we remove old stuff, and unnessacery stuff. In the handbag, everything stays, for months on end.

simu

the_syco wrote:

No, we remove old stuff, and unnessacery stuff. In the handbag, everything stays, for months on end.

Not mine (coz I hate fumbling at tills). Again, depends on the person.

Nightwish

No, we remove old stuff, and unnessacery stuff. In the handbag, everything stays, for months on end.

thats so true

Slutmonkey57b

simu wrote:

So, every time you change trousers, you have to move all your stuff?

The problem is not with handbags anyway - you can get ones with compartments and have a fixed space for every item.

Yes, you move your stuff. You only have 4 things to move, after all.

And the problem as someone pointed out above is that:
How come they don't know where the sh!t is when they spend 20 minutes carefully arranging it when they put it away? Answer: MORONS.

Actually my pet hate is people showing up to hotels paying cash, which delays checking them in by about half an hour. Worse if they've booked it with a credit card which they "haven't brought with them". Who the **** goes away from home with no way of paying for anything?

[Jackass]

Heh, was just talking about this on Friday...Waiting at the ATM on Grafton st., 3 people infront of me...

The first one (woman) took about 5 minutes, the next one (woman) took at least 5 minutes, the next person (guy) took about 30 seconds, as did I.

Enter card (1 second)
Enter pin (3 seconds?)

IT'S NOT YOUR FIRST TIME USING AN ATM EVERY TIME SO YOU KNOW WHAT SCREEN IS GOING TO COME UP AND WHAT EACH OPTION MEANS

Select withdraw cash with/without receipt (7 seconds...a little allowance to scan across the screen)
Select amount (15 seconds, cause some don't have €40 etc. so you have to press other)
Wait for ATM to process request and dispense card, take card and then money (10 seconds)

I can't even imagine wtf they were doing on the ATM, but the first stood blankly for long periods of time looking at the screen, while the second one was pressing button after button before removing the card, re-entering it, doing the same again and then withdrew her money!!

Sorry, but this is one of my biggest pet hates!! How the fu*k can you possibly spend so long at a ATM...LITERALLY 10 minutes for 2 withdrawls from 2 women...10 minutes isn't a hugh amount of time, but it is on a Friday afternoon, when there's big ques and te reason being people are taking so long to do something that takes 30 seconds!

Grrr! :mad:

Nightwish

women are retards, its as simple as that. In work when I serve people at the till its always the women who take out the small change and slowly count out the 99 cent in 2's and 1's. I'll be the first to admit that I wouldnt thave a clue how to operate the self service checkouts in Tesco's therefore I stay awayfrom them but I've seen women try (and fail) to use them and generally hold everyone else up.

Archeron

Just yesterday, in a busy petrol station, a "lovely" woman in front of me made the poor girl check about eight hundred lotto tickets, even though there were about 50 people queuing behind her. After about 10 minutes of "beep....deboop" she had won about fifty quid. Fair play I thought, now take your money and begone with you. Of course, it wasnt that easy, she decided to use some of her winnings to buy ice creams for each of the 5 children with her, and these are time wasting Mr Whippy type ice cream, not just something you grab from the fridge. 10 minutes of ice cream making/sauce choosing/flake decisions later, she is handed her change from her winnings, at which point she decides to put the money back into lotto tickets, the slips for which were in her handbag. At which point I left the shop thinking tea without milk isnt that bad anyway.

Hydroquinone

Nightwish wrote:

women are retards, its as simple as that.

Aww, I bet your mother's proud of you. How is it working out for you, you know being single and bitter? Enjoying it, are ya? :rolleyes:

Lambsbread

bravestarr082 wrote:

Its so annoying when you spend your 15min break in a queue while some dithery oul flooter has about 35items in the '10 items or less' checkout and whats worse its not enforced at all!

I'm a firm believer that if you can fit them all in a basket, you can use the ten items or less queue. That's just the way i was brought up.

Nightwish

Hydroquinone wrote:

Aww, I bet your mother's proud of you. How is it working out for you, you know being single and bitter? Enjoying it, are ya? :rolleyes:

someone doesnt get a joke when they read one then....single and bitter? hmm I must ask my boyfriends opinion on that.


When Tescos in the Jervis centre had the 3 items or less checkout at the bottom of the escalator, one of the girls there had a bit of an attitude which was good in a way cos she always refused to scan in more than 3 items for people

simu

Lambsbread wrote:

I'm a firm believer that if you can fit them all in a basket, you can use the ten items or less queue. That's just the way i was brought up.

Shock! That's just wrong!

the_syco

simu wrote:

Shock! That's just wrong!

Or... two baskets. Pay for them seprately. And smile.

Hagar

A quote from Jack Nicholson in the movie "As Good as it Gets".
He was asked how as a writer he gets so inside women's heads, he responded...

"To think like a woman I just think like a man and take away all reason and accountability"

gline

man i see this so often people holding up ques it is not necessarily women but usually it is

but the thing that really gets me is between 5-6pm in city centre everyone is usually trying to get home from work and moving at an ok pace, then some gobsh**e decides to stop dead in their tracks with no warning and do something trivial(usually look in their handbag :rolleyes:) meanwhile about 5 people bump into them and have to veer around them and they dont seem to give a crap, errr :mad: . its just ignorance in general i suppose, that piss*s me off

LoLth

[rant]

ATMs.... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I was queueing for the ATM in liffey valley (yes, I stupidly thought I would use the machine there instead of the local shop. not a mistake I will make again) to take out some money for cinema tickets. There's not a long queue (about 10 people)and there's a good half hour before the film starts. Doesnt sound too bad. except three of the people ahead of me are women. Now , not all women are as bad (my girlfriend is actually very organised and efficient) as these three. Seven guys get their money out and head off to meet their loved ones. then the first girl/woman/female arrives at the machine. 10 minutes have passed in teh queue at this stage. She reads the screen and THEN she looks in her bag for her card. What did she think hse was going to need once she reached the top of the queue. rummage rummage aha! a card, she looks at it reads it and then puts it into the machine which point blankly refuses to accept her tesco clubcard. What? she checked it before she put it in! eventually she finds her proper card and quite efficiently removes her cash. 20 minutes have now passed. Up steps woman number 2 and starts to look about in her bag for her card. again??? The woman immediately ahead of me starts complaining to someone on the other end of the phone about the queue being "mental" at the machine. No the queue is quite short, its the users who are mental. mentally incompetant. Anyway, woman numebr two eventually inserts her card (it is the right one thankfully) and then proceeds to press every possible button read every possible option available before finally taking her money and standing waiting for the receipt (which the machine was unable to print and she must have pressed the proceed option. what was she reading for all that time?). Abotu 25 minutes have passed. Phone Woman steps up to the plate and inserts the card (so far so good) then she stops doing anything except talk on her phone. What? tell them to hold on a minute! Try this fabled multi tasking! I am now officially late for the film. Its ok, its only ads at this stage. shes still talking on the phone absently hitting a button here and there on the machine. Eventually she hangs up and braces ehrself for the serious business of taking out money. woohoo! time to go see some film goodness. I wish. she takes out the phone and rings someone to ask how much she should take out. Did she not have time to think about this? Seemingly it depends on where they are going after the film. Does she take out enough to cover a range of options? no. she discusses the options with her friend/boyfriend before eventually (eveeeeentually) saying "sure I have a hundred with me, I dont really need to take out more. sure I can use the credit card if I need it"...... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! over 40 minutes have gone by (i **** you not). the trailers are gone the way of the dodo. I finally get my money and head for the ticket counter where the phone woman is at the counter trying to decide with her friends which film to see. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Eventually I make it to an available assistant and get my tickets. My friend is not hugely happy at missing the first 5 or 10 minutes of the film (and neither am I ).

lesson learned from this experience?
I now buy all my tickets online and collect with a credit card.

[/rant]

before I get torn to fleshy nibble sized low fat bits, I do realise that not all women are like this. And the above is an extreme example, its just the one that stands out clearest in my mind. I'm not perfect in any way shape or form but the women in the story above were compeltely inept and incredibly self absorbed.

gline

LoLth wrote:

I do realise that not all women are like this.

yeh that is true it is not all women, but the ones that are like that are really annoying

uncle ernie

Sparks400 wrote:

women

now ur just being pEdantic

Evil_Bilbo

the women that are like this are really really annoying. Mostly in their late twenties-mid thirties I find. God help us when the young big-hair bimbos (seen around dundrum shopping centre with their ugg boots) from the paris hilton school of stupid spoilt whoores start working and shopping full time. Nowadays they only hold up everything on weekends.

ATMs - I know - "what can they possibly be doing for that length of time?" - its extremely annoying. a girl actually turned around to me the other day and said "where does the money come out". Honestly. She said that. She was irish, around 19 (and thick as fcuking pìgsiht). It couldnt possibly be her first time using an atm? Surely she must remember where the cash came out last time? Women like this need to be boiled in raw sewage.

Multi tasking? Thats a whole n'other story. Some people can do it, some cant. What bugs me more than women who talk about it or cant do it is men who tell me that its "science" that no man can multitask while all women are great at it. Sure some women can drive their minis and talk on their mobiles at the same time - but do they see my car coming up the road? Do they even acknowlege its presence when I have to swerve out of the way to avoid an accident? (have a guess).

The purse, the atm, the phone (the loud phone voice), the car, grrrrrrrrrr! Is there anything that can be done about (or to) these people.

I'm not having a go at women drivers here - just fcuking spastics who permanently have their heads up their holes because they're day dreaming about god only knows what (which sex and city girl am I most like) - they have no consideration for anything thats not going on inside their ignorant tiny shallow tiny minds.

Kinetic^

I'm going with Seamus on this, inability to plan for the immediate future, it's retarded. If you're in a queue then have your stuff ready when you get to the top of it.

Angels

Seriously there are woman out there like this, i am a woman and even find it irritating when similar situations happen (as some boardsters have posted). I have to admit though im always the one to use my Laser card when i pay for my lunch. Now my reason for this is i don't like to carry cash with me, it's a valid excuse i think but im always ready with the card when i pay it's not as if i go looking for it there & then.

In saying all of this there are older woman out there who just love to hold up a que of people to get there feckin lotto or scratchcards!!

simu

Hagar wrote:

A quote from Jack Nicholson in the movie "As Good as it Gets".
He was asked how as a writer he gets so inside women's heads, he responded...

"To think like a woman I just think like a man and take away all reason and accountability"

#

?!Qué bastardo?!

(that character)

gline

Keyser Soze 5 wrote:

inability to plan for the immediate future,.

yeh that seems to be it alright

Mr Magnolia

LoLth wrote:

ATMs.... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

LOL'd, sorry probably shouldn't have though.

uncle ernie wrote:

now ur just being pEdantic

pedantic

Mr Magnolia

Almighty God wrote:

This would never have happened if you had just listened and left that apple alone.

You brought this on yourselves.

AG.

That damn rib!

metrovelvet

I always have my money or card ready.

And in my experience its tourists who are the worst. Especially ones travelling with a **** load of kids.

I walk out of queues all the time for losing patience. And I avoid shops where I know the tellers to be too slow.

BrianD3

This thread is hillarious. I can very much relate to all the stories of women taking ages to pay for things. A few times I've been held up so long behind women that I considered becoming a shoplifter rather than queuing up to pay.

simu

BrianD3 wrote:

This thread is hillarious. I can very much relate to all the stories of women taking ages to pay for things. A few times I've been held up so long behind women that I considered becoming a shoplifter rather than queuing up to pay.

Yeah, damn women leading our good menfolk to crime.

Cuddlesworth

Just leave. Put everything you were planing to buy down and leave. And make sure they are aware you are doing it because of their in-ability to complete the simplest of transactions. The self obsessed airhead will immediately relise what she is do doing and feel "Like, so embarrassed". Makes me feel better and dissapates the rage.

Also, I have never seen a man under the age of 70 who has done this. And the ones above I dont care as its not thier fault.

Gandhi

Slightly OT, but yesterday I saw a lady driving around with a bumper sticker that said "Other Women Drivers Suck". Reminded me of this thread.

gline

Gandhi wrote:

Slightly OT, but yesterday I saw a lady driving around with a bumper sticker that said "Other Women Drivers Suck". Reminded me of this thread.

hehe i like it, i wonder where you can buy them

WhiteWashMan

i dont mind actually, becuase i know im not perfect.