Just how old is Jack Massey? I remember him saying recently that he was doing a paper round.
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Things that get my goat - the inordinate amount of questions I get asked at supermarket checkouts.
Do you need help packing? No.
Would you like a carrier bag? No.
Would you like a bag for life? No.
Would you like cash back? No.
Do you have a club card? No.
Do you have a car park ticket? No.
And occasionally, and perhaps a bit more forcefully: "Would you mind coming into the office and emptying your bags, sir?
Quote: ross mcculloch @ June 12 2010, 9:51 PM BSTAnd occasionally, and perhaps a bit more forcefully: "Would you mind coming into the office and emptying your bags, sir?
Shouldn't let them catch you then...
Quote: ross mcculloch @ June 12 2010, 9:51 PM BSTThings that get my goat - the inordinate amount of questions I get asked at supermarket checkouts.
It is a pain, but we have to ask lots of questions. I have to ask far too many about balloons. 
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 12 2010, 10:21 PM BSTIt is a pain, but we have to ask lots of questions. I have to ask far too many about balloons.
Likee?
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 12 2010, 10:21 PM BSTIt is a pain, but we have to ask lots of questions. I have to ask far too many about balloons.
One day you'll look back at your Balloon Days with great fondness.
Quote: Gavin @ June 12 2010, 10:34 PM BSTLikee?
Is the party today? Would you like these in a cluster? Table or floor?
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 12 2010, 10:52 PM BSTIs the party today? Would you like these in a cluster? Table or floor?
That's not that many reaally 
I remember on my first day in a job which involved serving customers I was really surprised and upset when I was told I had to say hello to all of them.
Ha.
Little did I know there were about six other bloody things coming as well.
I do "Hi, who's next, please?" or "Are you waiting to be served?" and then "Have a nice day". I also tend to ask people if they need baskets while walking around, and a surprising number of people are very pleased to be asked and say yes.
Aw.
We had to be mega polite and helpful in my shop too, and it did end up coming quite naturally (at work, anyway). Now when I go in 90% of shops people are so bloody useless and disinterested - they'd all have been fired at my old job. (not that the boss was horrible, just liked customers to come back.)
I try to be nice, but for some people you can never do enough.
Oh yeah, there's definitely some twats.
But it's kind of fun being overly polite to them when they're being rude to you, because it irritates them even more.
Sometimes they just yell though. Like, really yell like you are incompetent. That makes me sad.
Give them one of the balloons filled with tear gas.
Then burst it in THEIR FACE.