I've often thought that supermarket cashiers got their job because they maybe offered just a little bit more than your average supermarket employee. Call me a bigot, but there you go (you're a bigot - Ed).
Anyway we were in a supermarket yesterday and Jan had put a yellow, a red and a green pepper in the same bag because the price (£ per kilo) was the same for all of them.
To the uninitiated that sort of makes sense and it's something I had done previously myself.
As the cashier tore open the bag to weigh the peppers separately Jan said to her that they were all the same price per kilo so it wouldn't make any difference.
Because the same thing had already happened to me, I whispered in Jan's ear that they probably did it for stock control purposes and that different coloured peppers probably had different bar-codes. Jan understood immediately and so far so good.
Then, the piece de resistance, as the cashier completed weighing the peppers she said, "look, it does make a difference, the red one weighs less than the green one and because each of the peppers are a different weight they cost different amounts!" Bless.
I thought the woman standing behind us was going to wet herself.
I blame the teachers. On Wednesday my butcher prepared a chicken leg for me to demonstrate to the children muscles and tendons. He told me to tell the children that it was the left leg, he knew this because apparently the chicken uses it's left leg to scratch so the muscle is more developed.I of course relayed this tale to my class. The difference is I told them I was pulling their leg like the butcher was pulling mine.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good story and yeah, I blame the teachers too.
ReplyDeleteYesterday the checkout girl in Morrisons (I hestitate to us the term cashier as that implies a higher level of training) got in a total flap when I handed her a £20 note for my two items and she entered £10 by mistake. It took me and the bloke behind me five minutes to convince her that all she needed to do was give me £10 more in change than the till said and all would be well with the world.
ReplyDeleteShe was very nearly in tears because she couldn't understand what we meant and was convinced she would be in big trouble when the supervisor found out if the till didn't balance.
Which says a lot about a lot of things, I think.