Woman and paying for things!Rant!

Degsy

simu wrote:

I'd nearly start being inefficient in shops if it annoys people that much The power - mwuhahaha!!!

Beware!HAve you seen the film Falling Down?

smemon

bloody typical, that's the sort of thing that does my nut in.

i'll be standing in que with a paper and bottle of coke or something, then some ole one will ask for 3 lines of lotto plus for the next 10 weeks or something, then she'll ask for a winning streak, then proceed to search for the exact amount after standing there like a statue for about 2mins.

and why the hell do they have to put everything in their purse and NOT leave the counter until they do so???

me, i only use notes, have the notes ready, hand the good over with bar code showing and am half turned when i get the change back. THATS how it's done. :cool:

Victor

Degsy wrote:

Beware!HAve you seen the film Falling Down?

Ah, but shes 7 months pregnant, she can get away with it.

SoupyNorman

Really is more of a female trait then a male though in all fairness (I direct eveybodies attention to the episode of The Simpsons where Apu loses his job at the Kwik-e-Mart and goes shopping with Marge, he points out the line although the longest is moving the quickest as it is all male, all cash and no chit-chat)

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!

podgewalsh

Yip I hear ya too , annoys the bloody hell outta me !

gerrycollins

i agree with everything said but men are just as bad but women are worse take it from me i know

the worst part is when im on a till in the shop i work in i normally left there while this person is doin the change thing trying no to look p**sed off at them

the next thing tho is when you ,who were waiting behind the change fumblers, comes up next to be served, dont take your anger out on the till operator

simu

Victor wrote:

Ah, but shes 7 months pregnant, she can get away with it.

Heh, not really. People aren't extra polite to pregnant women any more.

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...

FillSpectre

leeroybrown wrote:

I don't think that it's just women though. Some men are just as bad. The difference is that they don't have their money stored in a purse inside two different bags with enough provisions for a jungle hike on top.

There are masculine woman and effeminate men. It doesn't stop woman from generally being shorter than men. The same applies here mind you I have yet to see a man open up a huge wallet and spend 2 or 3 minutes rummaging for change when they have a note that they can use. Not once. The waiting for the change before starting to pack yes but only woman seem to have this obsession with paying in change combined with the packing problem.

Degsy

Marks and Spencer's is in a league of its own.The owl ones in there are all perma-tanned with expensive manicures and leathery skin to go with thier bleached-out hairdos,they're allways buying things like peeled coldwater prawns and muscadet & champagne individual deserts,or bottles of extra virgin salad oil,never really buying very much but OH,the quality.However,if you notice with these gin-sodden old bags,everything is a two-for-one offer or they THOUGHT it was when its all tallied up and then they have to call somebody over whilst they stand there with thier purse in thier hand and not making any sort of effort to pack the rest of the stuff in a bag.When its eventually sorted out these people ALLWAYS pay with a credit card after first runningthrough the list with a pen,pointing at each item and mentally adding it up.

maidhc

In fairness it is probably the minority of women do it, but I have often experienced what the OP refers to. It is fascinating that it doesn't click with some people that they are at a checkout and just may be asked for money.

Men are more likely to annoy people by counting out the price of a banana in coppers.

Gandhi

Here is what I can't fathom:

How does it take so long to find the cash in the purse at the start of the transaction, when they spend so long carefully arranging the change in the purse at the end of the previous transaction?

maidhc

Gandhi wrote:

...when they spend so long carefully arranging the change in the purse at the end of the previous transaction?

When my grandmother started to go senile, her handbag became her biggest concern. It was sad, but quite funny when she starting putting half eaten sandwiches, toilet rolls, and other random stuff in there.

hepcat

Degsy wrote:

Marks and Spencer's is in a league of its own.The owl ones in there are all perma-tanned with expensive manicures and leathery skin to go with thier bleached-out hairdos,they're allways buying things like peeled coldwater prawns and muscadet & champagne individual deserts,or bottles of extra virgin salad oil,never really buying very much but OH,the quality.However,if you notice with these gin-sodden old bags,everything is a two-for-one offer or they THOUGHT it was when its all tallied up and then they have to call somebody over whilst they stand there with thier purse in thier hand and not making any sort of effort to pack the rest of the stuff in a bag.When its eventually sorted out these people ALLWAYS pay with a credit card after first runningthrough the list with a pen,pointing at each item and mentally adding it up.

Twit, they do that just to keep the riff-raff out, don't ya know. Back to Aldi with you for your tins of polish sardines and your "sunny" cola....

SoupyNorman

hepcat wrote:

Twit, they do that just to keep the riff-raff out, don't ya know. Back to Aldi with you for your tins of polish sardines and your "sunny" cola....

Nice....

PCRed

The myth that is Men can't mulitask comes from men constantly being given out to by their girlfriends, wives, mothers, sisters and so on about not listening, this is especially true when the man in question is doing something of interest to him.

You see the thing is when a man is doing something, watching TV, surfing the internet for some new porn, whatever, he really doesn't care what any woman has to say, giving her the impression that he can't do two things at once.

Whereas no matter what a woman is doing she is always interested in what everyone else is doing no matter how trivial or u****ortant that may be.

Visa Vee; Men can multitask, they just don't want to. Woman are nosey.

Pedro

hepcat

PCRed wrote:

The myth that is Men can't mulitask comes from men constantly being given out to by their girlfriends, wives, mothers, sisters and so on about not listening, this is especially true when the man in question is doing something of interest to him.

You see the thing is when a man is doing something, watching TV, surfing the internet for some new porn, whatever, he really doesn't care what any woman has to say, giving her the impression that he can't do two things at once.

Whereas no matter what a woman is doing she is always interested in what everyone else is doing no matter how trivial or u****ortant that may be.

Visa Vee; Men can multitask, they just don't want to. Woman are nosey.

Pedro

Ah yes, visa vee and o contrairre, you guys are certainly masters of the incisive and witty retort. I mean that just says it in a nutshell, doesn't it? "Women are nosey". Short and to the point, but displaying an astounding level of social and gender-oriented awareness. Swoons.

Hydroquinone

FillSpectre wrote:

I have yet to see a man open up a huge wallet and spend 2 or 3 minutes rummaging for change when they have a note that they can use. Not once.

You know why that is, don't you? (You know, if we're generalising about the foibles of some members of the other sex )

Because men like to have a huge big dish at home full of the loose change they throw into it every time they come in the front door.
Women don't do that
Women have huge big dishes for pot pourri or fruit or somesuch, not for big clatters of coins.

Degsy

Hydroquinone wrote:

You know why that is, don't you? (You know, if we're generalising about the foibles of some members of the other sex )

Because men like to have a huge big dish at home full of the loose change they throw into it every time they come in the front door.
Women don't do that
Women have huge big dishes for pot pourri or fruit or somesuch, not for big clatters of coins.

This is awesomely true.Except i have various dishes,jars,ashtrays and cups full of change and its all over my bedroom floor where its fallen out of my trousers and i'm too lazy or drunk to pick it up.

Roen

Noelie wrote:

so much for women being better at multitasking, they can't even wait in line and get the cash together at the same time.

Same thing always happens on buses too, but this seems to be more an issue with older ladies than younger ones

One of my greatest pet hates. They annoy the hell out of me. These clowns have had the ten minutes waiting for the bus, the time in the queue, they've been prompted by similar morons in front of them and they still can't get it right. It's only when they get to the driver that they realise that 'Oh! Wait a sec I'll have to pay for this'. They then root through their ****ty purses or wallets for a minute before finally paying. Grrrrrr :mad:

nlgbbbblth

Beruthiel wrote:

We're all just so dizzy you see

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

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!