Bananas, kinda

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vavroom

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Well, not really smileys/wink.gif

Last night at the grocery store, I used the new self check-out for the first time. It has been going only a couple days. There is still staff manning it, a lot of staff.

Anyway, woman asks if it's the first time I use these, I say yes. So she walks me through it. I had a grapefruit in my purchases. I grab it and put it on the tray. She says in a somewhat patronising tone "what is that?", *probably* meaning that I need to look the name of the item up on the screen, using the first letter of the name of the item. But her tone irritated me so I said "it's a banana!", with a big grin on my face. She said "No, it's aaaa Grrrrr....., aa Grrrrrr...". So I played really stupid, and said "oh, you mean a grape?". She then said "no no, it is a grape*fruit*", and bent over me, balancing with one hand on the back of my wheelchair, to reach the touch screen and tap the "grapefruit" button.

I was gobsmacked. What do you do? What do you say? Nothing, really. There's nothing to do or say to combat well meaning ignoramus (it the plural of ignoramus, ignoramii? smileys/smile.gif ).

Ahhh, life from a wheelchair, hard to beat some days! smileys/smile.gif

 
Oh brother. *rolls eyes*

And it's so amazing and inspirational that you can go grocery shopping all by yourself!

:eek:P

You did pretty much ask for it, though!! lol

(Yes, I *am* up at this hour, curse the airlines that want you to arrive 3 hours before an international flight!)

 
I love the expression ..."I was gobsmacked!"

I have never used that one!

I guess it could have been worse...You could have suggested that it was a veggie..ie a carrot, acorn squash, etc...

 
I'd have said

the same thing you did... sometimes people that work with the public just don't get it.

The funny thing is about self-checkouts is that there will ALWAYS be a staff member sstationed near there, standing there to make sure there is no problem. Kinda defeats the purpose, don't you think?

 
One cashier for 4 checkouts at my local market. I always manage to find some produce

item that takes forever to find in the database.

 
Not as much staff

While it's new, there's of course loads of staff hovering about. But once people are used to it, apparently it'll be one staff to handle 4 check-outs.

 
It's very sad when people have absolutely NO sense of humor... they miss the best part of life!

 
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