I used to work as a cashier in a grocery store during the summertime, in high school as well as the first two years of college. One time one of the items we had on special was Prego spaghetti sauce or something like that, where the 16 ounce jars were buy one get one free.
So this snotty woman comes through my line with a couple of jars of Prego, and she says to me, "Make sure you ring those up right; they're buy one get one free." Well, the sale prices are programmed into the computer automatically, so I scanned the jars and they came up full price. She got all pissed off and said, "See, you rang them up wrong; they're buy one get one free."
So we called the manager over to settle the dispute, and we looked through the circular ads, and sure enough, the 16 ounce jars of Prego were buy one get one free. Unforunately, this dumb broad had picked up a couple of 22-ounce jars, which in fact were NOT on sale. We pointed out her mistake to her, and she got all huffy and said, "Well, I'm sorry, but I'm just not good with gimmicks."
I wanted to say to her, "Well, I'M sorry, but there's nothing at all 'gimmicky' about items being on sale at the grocery store. You just can't deal with the fact that either you're too damn stupid to notice what size jar we had on sale, or you're dumb AND shifty enough to try to pull a scam on us by getting the larger size jars and claiming that they are the ones on sale." I don't remember if she ended up buying the 16-ounce jars or if she had us take the Prego off her order altogether. But what a dumbass.
Oh, another way the customers would piss me off is when the store closed at 8:00 and they would come in at 7:58 and wander around the store for half an hour, taking their sweet time to grab items off the shelves. Then they would come up to the checkout and ask, "What time do you close?" and we'd say, "We closed a half hour ago," and then they would say, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I didn't know you closed at 8:00!" Like hell you didn't. You mean you didn't notice that you were the ONLY customer left in the entire store, that the lights in all of the deli cases and freezers were turned off, and there was no one standing behind the counter at the meat department or the bakery? Idiots.
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