Bundles of money
Oct. 14th, 2006 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueOne of the things that really irritates me at supermarkets, is the way the cashiers like to 'bundle stuff up' after you've just paid.
You know what I mean. You've just paid by card, got some cashback and a reciept, and they collect up the receipt, card and cash all in a bundle.
It's even worse when you pay in cash, and you hand over your nectar card, your loving 20 pound beer token, and they give you back coins, a note, a reciept, and your card all in one small pile.
Would it be really so hard to give me these things separately?
I have a card folder for my cards, a wallet for notes, a pocket for coins, and I really don't care about receipts, so I tend to stuff them in the carrier bag. However it's forever frustrating to have to separate out that little pile, that the cashier has _HELPFULLY_ collected up for you. Notes and coins are in different places in the cash draw. And reciepts somewhere else entirely.
Put of course, you can't ask for them separately. After all, it's just a trivial thing, and they look at you like some kind of mental defective. After all, it's not like it actually takes long to disentangle the coins, notes, cards and receipts.
Unless like me, you have a wallet in one hand, and this little bundle in the other, you're trying to get the fiver from under the coins and the notes, and into your wallet, without taking the reciept too.
And right behind you, is a little old lady staring daggers at your back, not _quite_ voicing the thought that you're scum for being so slow fumbling with your change, and holding her up.
Does anyone else get that?
You know what I mean. You've just paid by card, got some cashback and a reciept, and they collect up the receipt, card and cash all in a bundle.
It's even worse when you pay in cash, and you hand over your nectar card, your loving 20 pound beer token, and they give you back coins, a note, a reciept, and your card all in one small pile.
Would it be really so hard to give me these things separately?
I have a card folder for my cards, a wallet for notes, a pocket for coins, and I really don't care about receipts, so I tend to stuff them in the carrier bag. However it's forever frustrating to have to separate out that little pile, that the cashier has _HELPFULLY_ collected up for you. Notes and coins are in different places in the cash draw. And reciepts somewhere else entirely.
Put of course, you can't ask for them separately. After all, it's just a trivial thing, and they look at you like some kind of mental defective. After all, it's not like it actually takes long to disentangle the coins, notes, cards and receipts.
Unless like me, you have a wallet in one hand, and this little bundle in the other, you're trying to get the fiver from under the coins and the notes, and into your wallet, without taking the reciept too.
And right behind you, is a little old lady staring daggers at your back, not _quite_ voicing the thought that you're scum for being so slow fumbling with your change, and holding her up.
Does anyone else get that?
