Going to post these as I remember them.
I am a service host at a supermarket and my role is to look after the self service checkouts. One day, right at the start of my shift first customer of the day (well one of 4 since I mind 4 tills) the scale for weighing fruit and veg isn't working on one of the checkouts. So this lady complains it isn't working so I go over to resolve the issue. I realise that the checkout in question still hadn't been fixed as this issue occurred the last time I was in. All the other tills were in use, so I couldn't just move her over onto another one, so I quickly thought of a work around. In store on the produce section we have dedicated weighing machines for fruit and veg, you pop your (for example) bananas on the scale, it weighs it and prints out a little sticker with a barcode and price so it can be scanned at the checkouts.
She had potatoes and something else I can't remember exactly but for the sake of the story we will go with carrots (I think that actually was what they were but whatever) both inside the little plastic bags she had put them in. So I pick one of them up to go and take them over to the weighing machines so she could carry on scanning the rest of her items. This is where it gets good. "What are you doing?!" she says (I had already just explained what I was going to do) "I'm taking them over to get a barcode for you" I reply. "I don't like other people touching / going off with my food". At this point I'm just like; seriously? The machine was in view from the checkout she was at, she could watch me walk the whole way over to it and weigh them. So I then had to explain to her what to go and do because otherwise she wasn't going to be able to pay for these items. So she goes off in a huff to go weigh them herself while leaving one of her two children behind at the checkout who then scans some stuff while waiting.
She returns and has a go at the child for scanning stuff and demands everything to be cancelled off and to start over. Then has a go at me for the machine not working properly again saying how she wouldn't have had to leave her child behind to mess around with it despite the fact I had offered to go and weight these items for her so this was her own doing.
Needless to say I was glad when she went. But the thing that really got me was the statement about other people touching her food. 1. The amount of people who have already handled it before it got to the store 2. She was (I assume) going to wash it before cooking it anyway.
My apologies if there are any spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, sentences that don't make sense. I've got a headache and didn't bother rereading it.
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