On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:02:48 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 at 10:49:40, Martin Underwood
wrote:


Sadly many people seem to be congenitally incapable of finding their ticket
in advance of needing it (eg as they are walking up to the barrier), in the
same way that a lot of people (a large proportion of them being women) don't
start to look for their cash or credit card in a supermarket queue until
they are presented with the bill.

This is because we - I, at any rate - are far too busy packing up our
shopping while it is being passed to us, rather than requiring the shop
assistant to put it down in an increasingly unwieldy pile and causing
immense delays to the next person while we try to sort it out.

Once the shopping is packed, we pay for it.

On that subject, does anyone else hate those supermarkets who insist
on their staff "packing" even just your first bag of shopping?
Usually translates as the first random objects that come off the belt
being shoved haphazardly into a carrier bag, clearly with no thought
that someone is - in all probability - going to have to carry it some
considerable distance, often on public transport....
--
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