THIS IS HOW BAD IT IS OUT THERE...

[snatch3838]

So I am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour "monitors" and then this happened.
Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me - excuse me?
Her - you are wasting our bags!
Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her - that's not my job!
Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you.
Her - why are you using two bags?!
Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag.
Her - exactly.
Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging.
*me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags.
*me looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show.
Me- is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her- never mind you just don't get it.
And with that she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.

Should have told her if her dad were to double bag it the world would have been a better place

 

[gh1950]

One more persuasive argument about why you shouldn't use sell checkout.

 

[JNelson04]

I don’t use self checkouts. I let the cashiers earn their wage.

 

[Knight]

You can't fix stupid

 

[6Bones]

Upon reading this story, at first, I thought to myself, thank God this person isn’t flying planes, doing surgery, or managing a nuclear plant. At the checkout line about all they can do is humor, anger or inconvenience someone. Then, I realized this person can be selected for a jury and even more frightening, cast a vote.

Our only hope to restore our crumbling Republic is to return to honoring God and retake our educational system.

 

[palmettomoon]

"Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag."

And here I am catching flies in my open mouth staring in disbelief that she's only self checkout monitor and not a vice president of operations.

 

[palmettomoon]

They're everywhere

And they "Get out the vote!"

 

[THREEJAYS]

you cant wipe with em.

Yeah but you can smear with them

 

[palmettomoon]

Try giving one $20.01 for a $5.01 item and watch them scratch their head to make change.

It's been my experience that when you have a total of say, $14.63 and you hand them a twenty dollar bill and 13 cents, they'll almost always now hand me the 13 cents back and say, "You gave me too much money." instead of giving me the $5 bill and the two quarters I wanted in change.

LOL!

 

[spistols]

My bags get reused over and over, and then their final demise is dog turd cleanup.

Hell, when I used to go on business trips to Jamaica or DR, I am always convinced these 3rd world islands don't reuse their plastic bags- they just dump them and every other piece of trash into the beautiful blue waters.