I hate the fact that supermarkets are staffed with disinterested, witless 15 and 16-year olds around here.
So, I'm at the beginning of the counter (a track, which can be run/moved by the attendant), and I start to put my €50 worth of groceries on it. The guy behind the counter immediately presses his pedal, and goes *beep, beep, beep, beep...*
I'm wondering why, because it doesn't gain him any time. I *can't* unpack everything onto the track and the beginning, *and* put everything in my bag at the end at the same time, so he will either have to wait until I finish unpacking at the start, _or_ packing at the end.
You'd think so... wrong.
After I pay and start packing everything into my bag again, the flippin' idioteque just goes *beep, beep, beep, beep...* with the next customer's groceries, until I tell him to F***** STOP!!!11 because I *can't* pack groceries into my bag *and* keep the next customer's stuff apart from mine.
He looks at me with a look akin to this one:
"Oh, sorry..."
He waits for me to bend down and put some stuff into my bag (I can't put the bag at the end of the counter because he's smashed everything against the far rim already, when I was still at the front), and before I'm back up again, he goes... *beep, beep, beep*
STAHP!!!
And then he just sits there:
Customer behind me is shaking his head... because *he* can't pack his groceries either, because of the fact that I'm still there.
The proper way to do this?
- WAIT until I put everything onto the counter.
- THEN I will go to the end, and put my bag on it.
- And as the attendant beeps every item, I put it into my bag.
- I pay.
- Next customer.
How fracking difficult can it be?!