I'm here to buy this shit, I don't want to have a running discussion with you, or hear a monologue of what the product is, how good / bad it is, if you've ever used it, or what your review of said product is.

Just ring the shit up and take my payment.

We are all waiting to do the same and you running your suck hole is slowing shit down, in addition to being annoying as all fuck.

That is all.

He'll, I am just happy when I get help at a store who is polite and speaks properly and with manners...

Could be worse.

I'm all for courtesy, but if it takes someone 5 minutes to complete a transaction, which included 3 small food items totaling $8.73, and the customer is paying cash, there is an issue. IMO anyway...

I don't think that is the worst problem I would run into all day. If it made the wait inordinately long, you have a small beef.

I just tell them that I'm hearing impaired (true) and that I cannot understand what they're saying (sometimes true), and ask them to write anything they need to "tell" me.

It works every time!

Yakky clerks I can suffer. What I cant is people in front me who remain in 1960 with their check book. And want to balance it. And if the clerk says your coupon is not valid or expired, just live with the tragedy and let the rest of us check out!

I can suffer the chatty clerk. Struggle with the people who watch the clerk ring up 20 something items, THEN total it, THEN tell them the total... And THEN the customer starts the 5 minute dig in the purse to find her check... pen... glasses... and enter it into her checkbook balance. By now, I'm shooting sparklers outta the nethers.

Eh...I'll take friendly chatter over a rude/dumb/could give a crap clerk any day.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Yakky clerks I can suffer. What I cant is people in front me who remain in 1960 with their check book. And want to balance it. And if the clerk says your coupon is not valid or expired, just live with the tragedy and let the rest of us check out!

The horror of not getting double coupons on your Spaghetti-Os!

I'm fine with the talking if they're able to multitask but so many cashiers can't scan and chat at the same time.

It depends on what they say. Most of the time, if they are not holding up a line, I try to be pleasant in return. Why ruin their day?

I was at a convenience store with my (then) teenage daughter when the clerk commented on how bad her acne looked and offered advice. My daughter replied "What she you're suggesting doesn't work. I find it more useful to pop zits with an ice pick and use a bit of steel wool on the area-sandpaper gets so soupy with alllll that puss, you know? Then cover the area with a bit of spackling putty. When it mixes with the blood and puss, it gets pink in color and hardly shows until it drops off, you know? You've got a couple. You should try it !!"

THe clerk had no further advice.

Just go all Bill on her...

I don't mind if it is a cute female. The chatty dudes are annoying and a little creepy.

Imagine you are at a gas station, wishing to purchase $25 worth of gas with cash. A welfare momma is at the front of the line, buying 10 scratch off tickets, scratching them off, and then buying more scratch off tickets with the winnings. And then repeating the process. All while the line is backing out the door and people are getting pissed, as lard ass continues to scratch lottery tickets, holding up the line while refusing to move her mumu wearing ass.

Didn't happen to me, but I read about it, and it boiled my blood. I would go Michael Douglas from Falling Down on them. And the cashier that let it happen.

I'm friendly with all the check out people. I always talk to them and they even know my name "Fake". One of them asked me how to pronounce it from my club card. I said look closer. First name Fake, last name Name. He always says what's up Fake to me when I see him now.

I spend a few minutes at the gas station when I stop in and chit chat with the ladies. It's paid dividends too. Done over $5,000 in electrical work for them just by being friendly.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I don't think that is the worst problem I would run into all day. If it made the wait inordinately long, you have a small beef.

No, he didn't have a small beef. He had 3 small food items totaling $8.73. Sheesh, some people can't read.

To the OP: maybe something about your demeanor says, "Talk to me!" I certainly don't.

I'm more annoyed with the jack that had 15 items in the express 10 items or less lane the the store lets through while there's others in line

I've noticed the same thing at drive-thrus recently, especially Starbucks. It must be a corporate mandate of some type, but they always start with, "welcome to starbucks, how are you today?" Drive me crazy...now I just answer "fine thanks" and sit there thru the awkward silence until they finally ask me what I'd like.

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Originally posted by HRK:
I'm more annoyed with the jack that had 15 items in the express 10 items or less lane the the store lets through while there's others in line

That's when I use my "teacher can be heard clearly in the last row" voice, to help them.

Loudly: "Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen."

The miscreant typically gets upset, the people in line behind him / her laugh, and when I receive "the look" I explain, very patiently, "If you run out of fingers before you run out of items, you're in the wrong check-out line."