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A friend of mine made a game of this. At the grocery store, she labels people with "Oh Shit I Have To Pay?" Syndrome.
Her and her daughter text each other every time they encounter a person who somehow arrives at a cashier completely unprepared, who somehow managed to stand in line for several minutes and didn't realize that they had to actually do something when they reached the front of the line.
When sending mail like in the meme I get it what people could do wrong. You can prepare much there.
But how in the world is someone unprepared at a normal grocery store? I just lay my items down. Wait. Then the cashier scans, while scanning I take the items and put them into my Bag. Then I say that I want to pay with card, and I take out my card, hold it against the money-vanish-machine until it beeps and say goodbye. There is nothing to prepare. So what in the world could be unprepared for some customers? I'm actually curious. Are there idiots that like don't even place down the items or what xD
She calls it "Oh Shit I Have to Pay?” because that's the step that most people completely tune out. They'll put their items down, wait for the cashier to scan them, get everything bagged and then when the cashier says "that'll be XXX" people just snap out of it like they're dreaming and then fumble around to find their card. Like the step was completely unexpected. "Oh shit, I have to pay for all this?!"
How do people like that remember how to breathe?
Yeah as long as they're not refusing to move until all tickets are checked, more power to you.
well, see, right there's your problem
Oh so you just leave the shop while leaving your items behind?
I actually watched someone do that at the post office this past Saturday. But that was because they were having a hissy fit.
No, that was a failed /s comment where you're moving through the process quickly because you do that instead of just standing there. You know, like a normal person would /s
Zomg, I had this issue at an event the other day.
It's a baseball game with pizza food trucks. When you arrive you are given 10 tickets which effectively work like cash.
Go to the food truck, order and give tickets. Easy.
There are only two trucks because some had to back out. Lines are long, I'm in line for about 45 minutes, but I'm watching a baseball game nearby so no big deal. Truck I'm at has a giant sign "pepperoni or cheese 4 tickets".
By the time the people just in front of me get to the order taker I hear the conversation
Lady: "I don't know how many tickets I have, how much pizza I can order, but I want 16 pieces of cheese".
Order taker: "you have 40 tickets"
Lady: "what does that mean?"
45 minutes in line specifically for food, she doesn't read the sign, count her tickets, prepare a plan, nothing.
Well if the average Americans reading proficiency is the same as a 4th grader some of them straight up can't read the signs.
Yeah, you gotta remember plenty are at collegiate reading levels, so the low end has got to have plenty of real doozies to average out that low
Lol that's why the line was so long in the first place. Probably half the people in that line did the same thing.
Which is exactly true. I met up with the truck owner as he has a brick and mortar near my library. He said like 50% of people had no idea what to do when they got there.
Dude said he made a killing though, he was there like 4 hours and made 1400 bucks.
This is so many people. It's astounding. So many people just seem completely overwhelmed at all times no matter where they are or what they're doing and cannot simply prepare for what comes next. I suspect a large part of it is they're just distracted on their phone like zombies.
Omg, I'm a bus driver and this is my number one pet peeve.
This just reminded me of a funny story about a North Korean refuge who had escaped to South Korea. She was trying to figure out how buses worked and would stare at people getting on the bus to figure out how they paid.
She said that she noticed everyone would just kind of bump there butt on a sensor when they got on. Not knowing that something like contactless payment existed, she assumed that it must have just been some weird cultural thing that she didn't fully understand.
So she worked up the courage to board a bus and just bumped her butt against the sensor. Obviously it didn't do anything and the bus driver must have thought she was crazy.
Edit: Found the video! https://youtube.com/shorts/L8DeAqXzOtk
Lol at least she had a plan!
I am in my 40's and I have lupis caused arthritis. I'm not taking my card out of my wallet until I'm ready to swipe it, because I can barely fucking hold it. Some people have ADHD and get distracted. You never know what a person is struggling with. Your friend and her daughter sound like absolutely lovely people /s.