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Originally Posted by Robbie0723
Having helped parents an in-laws through final stages of age related mental disabilities, I suggest taking a deep breath and showing a little patience/kindness. You never know what that individual may be going through. And you may be there sooner than later.
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That's all well and good, until you come across one person who has "been going through something" and the next person has been "going through something" and the next person has been "going through something."
Think of it in the reverse. Does it not occur to you that maybe *I* am "going through something" and just want to get my stuff and get the heck out of the store, and not have to deal with self-entitled jerks who are all insistent that they are "going through something" and therefore deserve to be jerks about it?
Maybe the person next in line at the self-serve has a wife in the hospital about to give birth, and he's trying to surprise her with that bouquet of flowers before the kid pushes out. And maybe that's WHY he's in self-serve, and not waiting in line at the cashier's aisle. And maybe that jerk ahead of him who demands to have a cashier - in the self-serve aisle - will cause this guy to be late because of COURSE that jerk has coupons, three of which are expired and one of which is torn and won't scan, and of COURSE their credit card won't work because they took out their gas card by mistake...and of COURSE those three things that they got from three completely different departments of the store are priced wrong and they need someone to check each one..
Yeah - sorry. If you can't do self check-out, then get in the cashier's aisle. You are in the way of people who have "just been through" something.