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Someone Asks Cashiers To Share What Items Make Them Silently Judge People Who Buy Them, 50 Respond
It’s human nature to care about what others think of us. From worrying about our physical appearance to choosing the right words to making certain shopping decisions, being concerned about how others perceive us fills every aspect of our ordinary, everyday lives. Even if we’re not aware of it. So no wonder, then, we get so insecure imagining all the things the employee who is ringing up our 10 frozen pizzas (totally for a party) is thinking about us.
Thankfully, there’s a viral Reddit thread that offers insider knowledge of what products pique the interest at the registers and the opinions that follow. User gracoal recently reached out to the cashiers of 'Ask Reddit' with a very fine question: "What items make you silently judge the people who buy them?" Workers jumped at the opportunity to share a mix of hilarious and eyebrow-raising things they’ve ever scanned at checkouts.
We at Bored Panda wrapped up an entertaining compilation of what store clerks actually ponder as we make those questionable purchases. So continue scrolling, upvote your favorite responses, and be sure to share what embarrassing things you've ever bought right below. And if you're a cashier who has ever judged a customer behind closed doors, we'd love to hear all about it in the comments!
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#1
Not me but I was working with him at the time. This kid around 15 years old came in, late, maybe around 11pm. He was trying to buy condoms. The guy who was traing me took the condoms and said get outta here, you shouldn't be doing that! The kid was embarrassed and left. I told the guy, you probably just caused a teenage pregnancy, that boy was doing the right thing and you embarrassed him. I still cant stand that guy.
Danish Dynomummy 3 years ago
Plus that guy probably made the kid too embarrased to even try buying it the next couple of times.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
Shame + sex = dangerous, even deadly combination for generations, but Conservative Americans, for one, will NOT get this through their thick skulls.
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Jul Chv 3 years ago
It´s not illegal to buy condoms if your a minor, is it? At middleschool and highschool, in France, school nurses have some condoms they can give for free, they can also prescribe birthpills without telling the family or the school headmasters.
María Hermida 3 years ago
Some idiots think teenagers will stop having sex if contraceptives are not available. The rate of teenage pregnancy proves them wrong, but they are too stupid to see the evidence
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#2
This was about ten years ago, but the only time I judged someone was also when I lost a little faith in humanity.
Guy in his late twenties comes through the line. Belt is filled with junk food; chips, chocolate, popcorn, candy, etc. The whole time I'm ringing him up he's saying how glad he is to be out of the house, that the baby has a flu or something and hes at his wits end.
Fair enough, I suppose.
I get to the total, tell him, and wouldn't you know, he's short a few dollars. So what does he put back? The only non-juck food item: children's cold and flu medicine.
I still judge that man, and I don't even remember his face.
Rachknits 3 years ago
The problem is that we make judgements based on little information. Maybe he had some medication already and thought he'd buy a spare but then when he didn't have enough cash that was the obvious choice as the snacks were for his other kids who weren't poorly but hadn't slept well etc because their sibling kept everyone awake. Just saying...
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
Bingo! I’m a child and family health nurse, so, naturally “knew everything” before I had kids and was very quick to throw criticism every which way. Now I have kids and know that there is soooooooo much more going on behind the tiny snapshot we see of people in public.
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Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
Don’t judge too harshly - OTC cold and flu medicine, particularly for babies, is not actually recommended and is usually a waste of money.
Colin Timp 3 years ago
I watched a couple with 3 kids at Wal-Mart, who were 3 bucks short, put back a gallon of milk rather than the 3 cases of Mountain Dew they had in the cart.
Down With Agent Hedgehog! 3 years ago
Maybe there was more context to this, it’s not the whole story. Maybe he already have lots of the medicine and he figured that since he’s short a few dollars he could put the another medicine back so he can give the junk food to family or kids. Anything’s possible. People here in the comments seems to judge pretty quickly.
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#3
I remember one that everyone loved to judge and I caught a write up cause I finally told them to stfu. This customer came in 4-5 days a week *right* as the store opened (7am). She always paid cash and more often than not there were tons of singles and the smell of booze and smoke on them. It was plainly apparent she was a stripper, and for many more reasons than her payment method.
I was one of the few "young" cashiers who'd open cause I was stupid and dropped my college courses for work at the time (I did end up graduating eventually). So most of my coworkers that early were the near-retirement-age cashiers who'd basically forced their way into being only on regular daytime hours M-F. Since they were excruciatingly slow and I could run three systems at a time in customer service and still check people out they wanted me there to keep the flow.
Anyway sorry just setting the kind of scene this was. These cashiers would talk SO MUCH S**T every time this poor woman left the store. And thing is she'd be buying formula and diapers, regular stuff for meals and cereal and produce. Like she wasn't even buying booze like half our customers who rolled in that early were wont to do (and either way I *would not care* it's their lives and their money I spent half my check on alcohol too at the time). But because she was a schmex worker she was trash and a horrible mom and all this garbage their judgemental selves kept saying.
Honestly that woman was one of the nicest and respectful customers we had, and eventually she'd learned to always come to my line when I was there in the mornings. I can't remember her name anymore--it's been 20 years and I'm a recovering alcoholic--but I hope she's doing good and her kid grew up happy and healthy. And f**k judgemental a*s cashiers.
LittleWombat 3 years ago
Everyone sells themselves for money. Ask the blue-collar guys whose bodies don't work right after 30 years of machining or heavy labor. Staying home to raise your kid? How much did that cost you in wages you'd have earned had you made a different choice? Strippers and sex workers aren't the only ones selling themselves so no judgement. We all need to survive and live the best way we think we can!
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
As a hard working landscaper, you are not wrong. I've often thought similar. But I still think that if someone watched my work, the worst that would happen would be that they'd get dusty. If certain people watched their work it might end their marriage, but I suppose that's up to the guys, not the girls, but still...
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Imagine judging a mother for doing whatever she could to support her child.
Party Poison (They/Them) 3 years ago (edited)
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Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 years ago
Money smelling of booze and smoke could just as easily be tips she got as a waitress at a bar.
Erin Mitchell 3 years ago
When the pandemic hit we saw a lot more customers coming through our store using food stamps. Didnt bother me. I dont care how you pay as long as you pay. on one occasion i had a group of young 20-somethings come through my line all paying with food stamps. Once again, I didnt think twice about it. Financial hardship knows no age limit. A couple of my older co workers (retirees just loking for something to do) started sh*t talking them so hard and tried to drag me into it by using me as an example. Bro just bc I work an unhealthy amount doesnt mean everyone else can or should. smh
Jessica Blankenship 3 years ago (edited)
As a mom (MOST) will do whatever it takes to feed and clothe their kids, and don't deserve the hellish remarks and negative comments
#4
Currently working as a cashier and I was reading thru these thinking "what was something I really judged people for?"
Then I remembered this one customer I judged wrongly. Every morning this one guy would bolt into the store, go to the drink aisle, and come out with 5-6 energy drinks. He would come everyday so one day, I made a joke and said: "don't drink them all in one setting."
He then proceeded to tell me that it's to help with his ongoing chemo therapy. Stopped judging people based on their items after that one.
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
I love this story because with shows how a judgement was changed once OP saw more of the picture.
#5
The only time I ever judged someone was when this woman and a kid came up to the register. The woman wanted four cartons of smokes and when her little kid begged for a packet of strawberries, she was told no because they 'couldnt afford it'.
This was back in the early 2010's so cartons were around 80 bucks. So she spent 320 dollars on cigarettes but didnt want to spend 3 dollars on a measly pack of strawberries :(. Addiction is a hellova thing, I tell you what.
Omi bub 3 years ago
As the child of a heavy smoker, I can honestly say I would have preferred to go without Strawberries in this situation. My mum has tried to give up countless times & every time it is a living he'll ad she is in such a bad mood. We are both pretty resigned to the fact that she'll get cancer.
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NsG 3 years ago
No subtext or behind the scenes needed here - 100% deserved judgement. I don't care that "addiction is a helluva thing". A carton is 200 cigarettes. She bought 800 cigarettes. Assuming she's buying supplies for a month, that's 26 a day, or more than one an hour even if she does not sleep, eat or sh1t.
Omi bub 3 years ago
They were probably not all for her. I used to buy for my gran when she couldn't get out of the house. Many smokers are in relationships with smokers.
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Just Another Girl 3 years ago
$320 is a car payment. Or a small house payment. As a bank teller I would definitely silently judge the people who overdrew their bank accounts and came in shouting about fees and how are they supposed to pay their bills when I could clearly see the bars and cig/booze stores listed on their statement.
Hill Branda 3 years ago
That is 100% judge-worthy. Fresh fruit for your kid or cigarettes? Healthy food for your child comes first.
Jjjane20 3 years ago (edited)
This is sad but there are still people like that. I know a person with three kids, all of them included the mother are overweight like a lot. She's a smoker and complains a lot about how everything is expensive and she can't afford this and that. She is right, everything is expensive these days but she will not quit smoking, she buys a lot junk food for her kids and herself instead of cooking real food. She has diabetes, her kids were recommended to lose a lot of weight by the doctor because soon they will probably get diabetes + other diseases connected to being overweight too but she can't give them healthy food because they wouldn't eat it and it's expensive..her words. I am not a cashier but seeing her buying chips, candies and a lot of processed food made me extremely judgy. I don't really care what she eats but she has made the decision about her kids being as unhealthy as she is and that's it.
Sammie 19 3 years ago
And clothe them, they spent the weekends there and after school because mum was busy. She was always claiming she had no money but we saw on Facebook all her new designer clothes and how much she spent on herself. Her parents ended up with custody of her 4 kids because she didn't take care of them and her gravy train with benefits suddenly stopped. She had no income. 6 months later she was pregnant again and her boyfriend who she had moved in with dumped her and kicked her out after she announced she was pregnant. Leaving her homeless and the new baby was given to her parents directly when he was born because she was an unfit mother. She dropped off the face of the earth after that. I still talk to my other friend and both of her kids are at uni. She did good.
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Mama Panda 3 years ago
Could it have been possible that she was buying them for someone else with their money and that she, herself didn't have enough money to buy the strawberries? Y'all need to stop judging folks period!
peruchipac 3 years ago
Some people shouldn't breed. Esp since either she'll be dead from all that or she's killing that children, second-hand.
Alice Landers 3 years ago
Did anyone think maybe she's buying for someone else ? Big difference in cost in each state (taxes) Years ago remember reading NY state had extremely high tax on cigarettes. So judgemental as the person below said hard to believe someone could smoke that many !
#6
When I was 20 and moving in to our first apartment with my now ex- wife, we had a pregnancy "scare" (it wasn't really a scare, we were trying at the time, but I don't know the term you'd use.) So I went to Target to buy a pregnancy test. We also, happened to need hangers, and I prefer wire ones over those cheap plastic ones. So I went through that checkout lane with a pregnancy test and a bunch of wire hangers. The cashier was shooting me daggers and I had no clue why. It wasn't until I told my wife, confused, about it and she started dying laughing that I made the realization of what this cashier must have thought.
Colin Timp 3 years ago
I want to go through a checkout lane just once with duct tape, rope, lube, sleep medicine and condoms just to see the look I get.
Microwaved Robot 3 years ago
I was at the pharmacy once to pick a pack of condoms for an upcoming evening. While I was there I decided that since 'my time' was close that I would pick up some tampons and pads too. Condoms and tampons got me some strange looks and the poor cashier was like a 16 or 17 year old boy. LOL
tamèreestchaude 3 years ago (edited)
Well with the roe v wade overturning cashiers probably get a lot of people buying a bunch of vitamin C, wire hangers, and NyQuil if you catch what I'm throwing ;)
Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
Welp, I'm here now, so I guess you were right! 😜
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Donny Bereznak 3 years ago
That might be a truth in a lot of states soon, since Roe vs Wade was overturned
Lindsey Morris 3 years ago
I remember my ex telling me a story about when he was getting condoms and grabbed a few other things and when he went to check out he started laughing bc he had bought condoms, car oil and thumb tacks. Never fails to make me laugh when I think about it
#7
Not in itself, but I always side eye parents who’ll buy my weight in booze and cigarettes, but then scream at their kid to put the bottle of juice back
Wondering Alice 3 years ago
I do try not to judge - I really do. It's hard when you are trying to teach a kid who has come in without breakfast and saddly tells you it's because money is tight right now but their clothes reek of smoke.
StrangeOne 3 years ago (edited)
Juice has a lot of sugar in it. So it's not like it's a necessity item. Of course, neither is cigs and alcohol. At the end of the day, it is the parent's money. As long as the child is clean, nourished and no signs of abuse then there's not much to judge other than the parents have a nicotine addiction and enjoy an adult beverage now and then. I don't drink much but every time I went to the Liquor Mart and my daughter with me I felt judged. Sometimes I would get some wine for a get together or just to have something with a meal. We the the alcohol talks with my daughter. I want to also add, maybe the kid was acting up that day and didn't deserve a treat.
Bobby 3 years ago
Not that the parents shouldn't quit smoking, but maybe they are budgeting for their addiction. This cigarettes might be planned and the juice isn't. Or if you are like me that wasn't the first store you were at and this is the 5th or 6th time your kid asked for something you already told them no to. Also addiction is the worst. I've seen it turn good people into monsters. And I've never met one person that could get over it alone
Mama Bird 3 years ago
Y’all are so damn judgmental. You can never know someone else’s life. So get off your high horse
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
How dare you judge my horse! I'll have you know it's very sensible about its more than average height, and I won't suffer people commenting on that!
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iseefractals 3 years ago
To be fair, fruit juice is horrible for kids (and adults for that matter) sugar content often rivals or surpasses that of soda (ocean spray having 28-40g of sugar per 8oz serving) it's not just like "eating a piece of fruit". Aside from fruit having a fraction of the sugar content, the absorption of that sugar is regulated by having to digest the flesh of the fruit, and juice manufactures get away with the "no sugar added" BS by adding juice concentrate... which is packed with sugar.
#8
Not to be that guy but people with very overweight young children and buying a whole bunch of candy, soda, and make-shift high calorie heat up foods/meals. I am in no way trying to tell people how to live their lives, but it would always make me sad seeing super overweight kids just getting set up like that.
ollie.anid 3 years ago (edited)
I feel bad that some (NOT ALL) of those families can’t afford to buy healthy food. Or at least its much easier and cheaper to buy junk. It’s a pain healthy food isn’t cheaper than all that bad stuff
Katie Andrews 3 years ago
As someone who was a natural weight gainer since childhood, was once over 400 lbs, and has lost about 160 lbs, I sincerely wish junk food was taxed to high heaven, and healthy food was super cheap. It would make all the difference in the world. Big Pharma can die mad.
Colin Timp 3 years ago
When you work 14 hours a day it's hard to find time to make meals; let alone anything healthy.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
When I was going to a school for young moms there was a very large baby with a large head. This baby's mom had diabetes. Diabetes in moms can cause them to have larger than average babies. So this little man was born 13 pounds The other moms were ignorant to the details and I heard them making comments about her and her baby, saying she was a terrible mom for overfeeding her kid. When I told them the facts they shut up pretty fast.
DrGirlfriend 3 years ago
As a mom with kinda chubby kids.. food is so expensive that in order for me to feed them it's sometimes the c**p food because whole foods is six times what Walmart is and where I live there isn't much , mountains,. I know it's hard when you either don't have kids or have the ability to buy high end foods. Gas, milk, bills it's very very expensive nowadays.
DippityDooDerp 3 years ago
My daughter needs high calorie foods. She's a horse back rider who burns roughly 260 calories an hour. She rides 5 hours a day Monday - Friday. 10-12 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday she doesn't ride. She was burning more calories than she was eating. Definitely not overweight though
#9
I was a cashier at a pet store. The main thing i'd judge for was buying way too small of a habitat. Whether it was a gold fish bowl, or a critter trail, i'd be upset. I'd try to use it as a teaching opprotunity when possible but not everyone would listen because "its just a fish/hamster/rabbit/etc".
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The moment someone calls their pet "just" an anything, you know they shouldn't have pets.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
Reminds me of a meme I saw of a judge-faced cashier and the quote something along the lines of "If you don't like that I'm buying beer at 7am then don't be open at 7am"
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Commander Ducky 3 years ago
Animals need a place to live and run,swim, and hop around! Just like us humans!
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
I really hate the fact that shops keep selling small cages and what's worse, these cages have ridiculous fancy product names (where I live at least) like "Palace", "Royal", "Villa"... (Villa means mansion in German) So people who buy these really think "wow, my pets are so lucky, I bought them the guinea pig super palace XXL!" when it barely fulfills the minimum of what the animals need. -- The best is reading online reviews like "Great cage, my rats/rabbits/gerbils love it!" Well yeah, your pets told you you made a great choice, right... (Sorry about the lengthy rant ❤)
Llewella 3 years ago
99% of dwarf hamster cages are well under minimum requirements, I still don't understand why they are still allowed to be sold
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1ch0 3 years ago
When I had budgies, from the start I left the door open, so they could climb out and back in whenever they wanted. They often sat on the cage or flew through my appartment and when it was getting late they returned by themselves into the cage and slept there. I then put a blanket over the cage and they slept. :) I just wanted to give them as much freedom as possible. And always buy animals in pairs! Its torture for animals to keep them alone.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
This sounds so great! If you don't mind my asking, how did you deal with them pooping while out of the cage? Did you find a way of making them use a dedicated corner? I would love to have budgies or birds in general, but my concern is since I wouldn't want them in a cage all day, I would do as you did, but I can't be cleaning up after them all the time either...
Load More Replies... Tams21 3 years ago
I've always been of the opinion that if you're going to get a pet - any pet - then you should treat it like a member of your family. There should be enough space, enough time to care for it by and money/ insurance for vet visits. My not having the first two of these is the reason I'll probably never have pets.
Penny Lost 3 years ago
Every time I see someone buying/boasting about/showing off a small birdcage, oh, I judge! I judge hard! Sure, in some cases those are just travel/emergency cages (in those cases I do not judge), but whenever it's a permanent habitat for a bird, I just see red.
#10
I was a cashier 20+ years ago. I hated it when people bought frozen kids dinners with food stamps and spent hundreds of dollars on alcohol and cigarettes.
Heather 3 years ago
Back when cigarettes were cheaper, 20+ years ago, poor parents would often buy them to keep hunger at bay. Food for the kids, smokes for the adults.
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
This. They can’t eat, don’t know how to meal plan/budget for food/prepare meals so they get those for the kids and smoke themselves.
Load More Replies... LittleWombat 3 years ago
The complaints aren't that the customers are buying alcohol or cigarettes - it's that they are prioritizing those things over healthy things for kids. This entry isn't the best example, because at least they're buying kids dinners (maybe they don't cook, its for babysitter to use when parent is at work, etc.) But in most of these, it's that the child's needs come last.
Beth 3 years ago
You can't buy alcohol or cigarettes on food stamp cards. So I'm definitely questioning whomever this is.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
I think the implication is that they had cash for their own vices, but used food stamps to buy cheap food for their kids.
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Willem Groenewald 3 years ago
A friend of mine's dad use to buy a bottle of whisky, a box of wine and a few packs of cigarettes every two days, but couldn't afford electricity so their electricity was cut. They had to run an extension cord from the neighbour to "borrow" some electricity. Back story; the Mom had brain damage a few years earlier and the Dad had to look after her. Gradually he just started giving up in life.
Norman Beattie 3 years ago
It's always been my contention that Food stamps, EB (?) etc shouldn't be allowed for Alcohol/Tobacco/Junk Food/sugary Cereals and all non-nutritional foods in general. It would be so easy to program the stores computers/cash registers to reject these sales.
María Hermida 3 years ago
Of course, you think you can tell other people how to live, from your privileged position. Junk food and sugary food are far cheaper than organic, healthy food, and they make people feel "full" for longer. People on food stamps need to put food on the table every day, and unfortunately fresh food, vegetables and fruit are far more expensive than pasta, sausages and hamburguers. Please, try to understand other people's problems and hard reality before judging them. You obviously have no f*****g idea.
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Jon Whatsisname 3 years ago
Worked in grocery retail for many years. Sadly, it happens more often than you would think.
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I never judged, but I did notice that if people were buying something they thought was embarrassing they'd also buy some other item. No one bought just a pregnancy test, only a box of condoms, a single tub of lube. No there was always some other item, like a candy bar or bag of chips, as if they were worried I was judging them for buying only the "embarrassing" item. I wasn't, I just found the pattern amusing. I know you didn't come to the store for a candy bar and then thought hey I should grab Plan B while I'm here. I don't care, and if the polite fiction helps you get through the day go for it. But it is amusing.
NsG 3 years ago
I once served a guy who got around his "embarrassing" purchase by also buying gift wrap and a card. As if his best mate was going to open condoms, lube and a cucumber on his birthday!
FinkAdele 3 years ago
I can't help laughing at the idea of my unpacking this gift... 🤣
Load More Replies... Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
I had grown men coming in the store all the time to buy their girlfriends pads or tampons. In my mind I thought this was awesome because I myself had never been embarrassed by them. Most of these guys would rush up to the register and say in a quiet voice "hurry up and put these in a bag". They'd usually buy something that would go over to as well. Like, dude, they're feminine products. For your girlfriend. They're not going to turn you into a girl. So yeah, I'd silently judge them for being embarrassed of a woman's period.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Oh man, I dont even wanna think about buying my wife feminine hygiene stuff...not because I'm embarrassed to get them, but because I was so confused at what she needed. I thought "ok, theres pads and tampon...no problem, she asked for pads. I get to the store and there's SO many kinds and sizes, with wings or without, over night and daytime use...I was more embarrassed because I was so clueless about what to get than actually getting them.
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Cyndielouwhoo 3 years ago
It reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer is buying illegal fireworks and "covers it up by getting suppositories, porno magazines, huge bottle of booze, panty liners, etc " When Marge is unpacking the bag she's like " I don't know what kind of weekend you have planned, but I don't want any part of it."
tamèreestchaude 3 years ago
Moe: 'Sorry bart, I can't sell booze to a minor, it ain't right.' Bart: 'I'm here to buy fireworks' Moe: 'Oh hell yeah!'
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Moosy Girl 3 years ago (edited)
I would absolutely go in to buy plan B and then think oooh I should get a candy bar while I’m here though.
Iyelatu 3 years ago
I was like that too, but now i just dont care anymore..
Load More Replies... Rensheta 3 years ago
Sorry, realise its a typo, but still made LOL "a single tub of lube" that's a lot.
Aela Klassen 3 years ago
Its sad that these things are considered a shameful buy though. Girls shouldn't be embarrassed to buy pads nor should Men an Women be embarrassed to buy condoms. These are every day items, and the ones judging people who buy these things are idiots. Edit** Men should not be made to feel embarrassed buying pads and tampons for their Wives/Daughters/Sisters/Mothers
Bella 3 years ago
When I was 14 I bought 3 pregnancy tests because I was raped and afraid to tell my parents, and I didn’t didn’t know how effective the dollar store ones were but I didn’t have a lot of money so couldn’t get the $15 ones, woman checking me out gave me the dirtiest look and even said “you shouldn’t be doing that, such an awful girl giving away your body” so I just lied and said they were for my mom and she was like “yeah right”
#12
I once had a guy in his 50s ask me if it was ok to buy his wife a box of hair dye for Mother's Day. I told him it probably wasn't a good idea but he said "Oh well" and bought it anyway. So, yeah, I judged him.
Ladytron 3 years ago
Yeah, I agree with you OP. Never buy a gift that is meant to change your partner (unless they specifically asked for it). That's a gift FOR YOU, not your partner. Very disrespectful and selfish. It's like a friends ex-husband who got her butt plugs and lube for her birthday because HE wanted to have a**l sex (she absolutely did not but he kept bringing it up).
Natascha Grasby 3 years ago
I would have volunteered to stick the lubed butt plug up his jaxxy, while asking where my present was. ‘I had no idea you wanted a**l sex this badly, dear’
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Bored Turtle Princess 3 years ago
Maybe his wife wanted it, but he wasn't sure if mother's Day is a good occasion to gift it to her?
Colin Timp 3 years ago
My mom always told me never to buy a woman something that plugs-in and I'd be doing fine. I guess that counts.
pink_panda 3 years ago
Bad idea unless you're getting her that purple hair dye she's been wanting to try!
StrangeOne 3 years ago
Maybe it was the type of hair dye his wife always gets and he wanted to give her a break. She could have even asked for it and it wasn't really a gift and he didn't feel comfortable with the thought but went along with it because that's what his wife wanted.
Marcus Emmons 3 years ago
That sounds like a dad joke to me. If my wife asked me to buy her a box of hair dye, I'd probably try to convince the cashier that I was buying it as a present.
#13
The only time I got judgy was the teenager who was too nervous to buy condoms, so he sent his equally nervous girlfriend into the store to buy them while he paced around outside.
It's like, dude, if you're going to do this, man up and buy your own.
NsG 3 years ago
So you judge him for being nervous, while failing to consider that his nerves probably come from someone else judging him for buying them the time before. (See the cashier who judged and then refused to sell condoms to a teenager from earlier in this list)
Supertuna 3 years ago
It's also a little sexist. Why would it matter who bought the condoms as long as one of them does? The boy might have greater anxiety too. These people go on and on about mental health but cannot understand simple s**t
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Lotzen Fecker 3 years ago
Trying to bring down the "males need to take responsibility, too, and equal rights", by telling him to "man up". Uh-huh...
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Something that helped me get over being nervous about buying condoms...This was 25 to 30 years ago so times are a little different now, but back then, I figured why should I be nervous? I'm getting these because IM GOING TO *PASSIONATELY HUG* WITH MY GIRLFRIEND!...Why am I embarrassed? I should be strutting around like rooster! Now,before you judge my uncouthness, it was a different time and I was a young and stupid teenager. My point being, don't be embarrassed for protecting oneself from unwanted pregnancy and STDs. Be proud for doing the responsible thing and using them.
Katie Andrews 3 years ago
Put people at ease. Humans are sexual beings, and they're GOING to have sex. Make it easier for them to be responsible and not cause a pregnancy. Let people have their pleasure.
Jon Whatsisname 3 years ago
I'm 57 and for some reason it still makes me nervous to buy them. But at least I've always bought them myself.
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
I don’t get nervous buying them but I do feel silly, for some reason - maybe because I feel like it’s something a single 20yo buys, not a 40-something married person with multiple kids. I realise it’s irrational - but it gives me the giggles (especially if I buy one of those ridiculous assorted packs with colours and flavours)
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Hugo Santos 3 years ago
Well, BOTH of them were going to do it. Why must HE be the one who buys the condoms? Is it a "man's job" too?
#14
I was a cashier for 3 years, and I can't think of a single thing that anyone bought that I judged them for.
I certainly judged people for their attitudes, for inappropriately asking for a discount, or for various other petty things, but never for the items they were buying.
LuckyL 3 years ago
I have to activly keep myself from saying this "joke" and tell myself it's not new and they've probably heard it at least ten times this day alone.
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Steven 3 years ago
Once had a cashier judge me for buying frozen burritos. She held them up and made a face while declaring, "These are nasty!" I just smiled and laughed, but in my head I was thinking, "You don't have to judge me for it, I'm already judging myself, but I'm poor and this is a few meals for cheap!"
#15
When I was a teenager a friend and I decided to try and shoot a movie gunfight and wanted to make our own squibs. We read in a magazine that they used condoms filled with fake blood and blew them up with a small explosive charge. We had firecrackers, so off we went to buy condoms.
Two 14-yr old dudes buying a massive box of unlubed condoms? Yeah, boy, we got judged...
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
My best bud in high school - 6'4", lanky, deep voice and charismatic as f**k. Me, the 5'7" short scrawny metal nerd with a scraggily beard and long curly hair. He asked me to come with him to get condoms for his first night with his then-girlfriend. We pick them, head to the counter, then I just grab his hand and start beaming like a moron. He catches on right away, and we march proudly up to the counter, hand in hand. The woman stared for at least 10 seconds. Professional, but she knew we were being jagfoffs.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
When I was working in a makeup special FX lab, I used to have to go out on runs to purchase several boxes of condoms, lol
Atreïdes 3 years ago
A very tiny movie pyrotechnic worn with clothing to simulate blood spurting from a gunshot
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Colin Timp 3 years ago
Why not just buy balloons? A lot cheaper than condoms. That would be what I'd judge you for here.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Maybe because they don't break as easily. Seems silly, since condoms are meant to be a barrier, but they make better water bombs than balloons do
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Craig Becker 3 years ago
I can relate. As a long-haired, kinda freaky looking adult who, at the time, was into keeping a saltwater reef aquarium, I needed some syringes to clean out some aiptasia anemones (they’re an invasive pest). The pharmacist was less-than-impressed when I began asking him “Do you sell syringes? How much do they cost?” Etc. I picked up on his attitude and told him why I needed them - he seemed doubtful but he still sold them to me.
Veronica Alejandre 3 years ago
Why not use just regular balloons? I doubt anyone would judge 14 yr olds for buying balloons.
#16
I worked at a grocery store for a couple years. An older man probably in his 60's came in, he was with a girl who was in her mid 20's and pregnant. I was ringing them up and he goes hey babe do you need some more cigarette's. He bought her a pack as well as one for him. I usually dont judge people but I judged them.
StrangeOne 3 years ago (edited)
Awkward. But maybe they weren't in the kind of relationship or maybe he was younger than he appeared. Were IDs checked? My ex was a heavy smoker and he always looked much older compared to me, and I've always looked a bit younger for my age. We're only 3 years apart. The looks people gave us, especially when I was pregnant, was priceless. He's about 41 now and looks to be in his 60s. I still look much like I did in my early 30s with a few silvery hairs in my bangs. When we were together and apartment hunting, due to his odd work hours, sometimes his dad would come with me to viewings. One landlord thought his dad was my boyfriend... I could've just died right there.
just me 3 years ago
Smoking isn't great for the soon to be kid. Calling her babe makes it seem like it is that kind of relationship. So, two people that seem okay with harming their unborn kid.
Load More Replies... E Menendez 3 years ago
I really feel the issue is that she is perceived as pregnant and still smoking. Not the perceived age difference. Smoking while pregnant is awful for the fetus.
Sam Walker 3 years ago
Wow. Y'all are some pretty judgemental people. He's too old? She's too young? He shouldn't use a term of endearment you find infantalizing? And of course the biggie: she's too pregnant to smoke. Folks, I know women whose doctors made sure they _didn't_ quit as the withdrawal and health risks were substantive. I can't judge whether that's bs or not because _I'm not her doctor_. I leave the completion of the sentiment as an exercise for the reader.
Ranita 3 years ago
I didn’t know about the health risks of quitting while pregnant. Interesting topic
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#17
The double chocolate chip frappuccino for your 4-year-old at 8:32am. You are giving your very small child a chocolate milkshake for breakfast, Karen, just so you can trash your local Target and get 30 seconds of silence and then leave the cup laying down on a shelf, spilling chocolate milk onto a stack of bath towels.
I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago
I've worked in a coffee shop before. Most frappuccinos do in fact have coffee in them but not all. Some are listed as caffeine free.
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Bobby 3 years ago
I've made a lot of mistakes as a parent, but I count my daughter preferring water over every other drink as a win
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
I'm 53 and had total granola hippie parents and to this day my favorite drink is water.
Load More Replies... Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago (edited)
If it were my 4yo kids 8.30 am is practically lunchtime, so, there is that.
CatsWearingHats 3 years ago
…maybe this was just a one time thing. Maybe the kid was celebrating his birthday. Maybe he was sad and needed cheering up. You never ever know.
Karen Hill 3 years ago
I thought Karen was racist and wanted to talk to the manager. Now she’s also a bad mom who messes up the department store?
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
Starbucks sells drinks for kids, like juice, milk, etc. The matcha frappucino is my favorite-matcha is delicious, kinda earthy, and decaf!
Colin Timp 3 years ago (edited)
I always wonder about the parents who have their young kids at a store at 1 or 2 am.
#18
not a cashier, but rather the customer who was judged 😭😂
I decided to buy candy after valentines day since i kno it would be on discount (it usually is). I got like 3 packages of caramel candy and 2 chocolate bars. The cashier looked at the stuff i bought and was like “Didnt your boyfriend get you something or are you buying these for him?” i just stood there awkwardly like “im just buying candy cuz its on a 50% discount… I like being single?” and then the cashier just laughed at me like being single was a bad thing? I mean i dont see being single as a bad thing?
And this kinda caused me to stop buying candy after valentines day.
Lazy Panda (she/her/hers) 3 years ago
The day after the holiday is the best day to buy candy! No shame in a sale on chocolate!
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
And I would most probably have made fun of him so badly that he wished he had never opened his mouth. Don't you just love it if overstepping idiots just ask for a roast?!
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thefaithfulspouse 3 years ago
Um, ALWAYS buy the candy the day after a holiday!! It's a rite! It's a holiday in itself! Day-After Day!
Katie Andrews 3 years ago
Buy your candy the day after Valentine's Day, and I speak as someone who has a Valentine birthday. Anyone, esp a cashier, who made me feel bad for buying cheap candy or being single would be reported to management. That whole attitude sucks. She was trying to double-shame!
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
Using corporate grasping and Calendar commercialization against the seller. Well done
Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
Yeah, this stuff is what makes me always nervous to go to the regular checkout lanes!
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AliJanx 3 years ago
Back when Jelly Bellies were (sometimes) sold by color, I bought several bags of blueberry, orange, and white, in support of my favorite team. I wanted to put them in a jar on my work desk. I had a worker at the store criticize me for buying so much, with something like, "wow, you've got a lot there. I hope you exercise a lot." I was really surprised; it caught me so off guard that I didn't know what to say.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
Oh...I can come up with a few things to say to them..lol
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Jessica Wood 3 years ago
Reminds me of a cashier who said 'You'll rot your teeth' when I was buying Ben & Jerry's. I should've just walked out and bought my ice cream somewhere else.
#19
Pity, which is a judgement of a sort. I am overweight myself, but have a job where I still have to do physical labor and I get by, so while I could stand to lose a few dozen pounds, I am not breathing hard from walking down the block, or anything. When I see people who are at the point where their ankles look like they are about to give out, or that barely fit in the mobility scooter, buying a lot of sweets and not much else, I feel genuinely bad for them. I know how exhausted, out of breath, sore, and sweaty I get when I exercise, which is not often enough, and I can't imagine how terrible it must physically feel to be in that poor of shape. I try not to look down on, or scoff at their choices internally, because we all do what we must to cope with a tough and often cruel world, but man do I feel bad for them.
Desert Rose 3 years ago
I have an invisible disability. I'm sure I'm judged when I use a motorized cart. But, you know, what other people think of me isn't any of my business.
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
And if they say it, then an explanation starting with "it's none of your business but..." is the moral equivalent of using someone's weight against them in martial arts.
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LoudMansLover 3 years ago (edited)
It's the same as any eating disorder. We look more favorably upon anorexia and the like than we do on binge eaters, etc. I can tell you why I do it: to escape the mental agony I'm in almost every second of the day. If eating something makes me not want to kill myself (lowest point I'd been at, not right now), then yes, I'm going to do it. I don't care too much for sweets though. I also try very hard to change my eating habits often, but it's difficult when you can barely force yourself to get out of bed and now I have to get groceries, calculate healthy meals, cook and eat them? Folks, I have to force myself to shower most days. That's a lot.
LittleWombat 3 years ago
Disabled people become fat from not being able to move!!!! It's hard to stay thin when you can't walk well or at all, but you can still eat and do still get hungry! And as was said, some days, that's all the bonus pleasure you get in a day is something you like to eat. Sure I'd rather go for a long walk or play at the beach, but bad days, you're lucky to shower.
Rens 3 years ago
Not to mention the kinds of medications that you might have to take that cause you to feel constantly hungry, or that mess with your metabolism. I am currently under the care of a special weight management service because I'm reaching the point where my weight is putting me into the pre-diabetic category. I would love to be able to exercise, do yoga, go swimming, anything.
Load More Replies... Rens 3 years ago
I have a problem with this. I am overweight, disabled and I use a mobility scooter. I am fat because I'm sick, I'm not sick because I'm fat. I don't think there are many people who would choose to be fat. I do the shopping for both myself and my partner which includes lots of ice cream and junk food for him (he's an adult and can make his own choices), and not for me. I don't agree with judging anybody on face value because you have absolutely no idea what's going on in their lives.
Sandy D 3 years ago
I know I've been judged as a lazy day person when using a store scooter. You cast freaky see why I've needed it at bigger stores, and in about 40 or 50 lbs over where id like to be. But both the fat and the partial disability are connected. Period judge and give dirty looks I don't care- people like that are azz-wholes
Alias Delfs 3 years ago
Dude it’s just as hard being at the opposite end of that being skinny as a rail with barely any muscle mass you’re cold all the time it hurts to exercise(for me personally heart condition) your bones pop your knees creek
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
This is a capitalism problem. This is a poverty problem. There are so many factors that have to do with someone's weight and food choices before you start assuming "lazy glutton." Cut it out, people.
Leslie Donsen 3 years ago
What I dislike is when the store owned mobility carts are left in the handicapped parking place preventing others (myself included) from parking their cars in them.
Jay Dresser 3 years ago
I'm in a Walmart and a 400lb guy in the electric scooter-cart has the basket 3/4 filled with 2-liter soda and I think to myself, "I think I see your problem" but of course I can't say anything.
#20
woman on a scooter with grey skin and on oxygen buying two huge jugs of wine and a carton of cigs.
on one hand, wtf, you trying to die soon?
on the other, if I was a little old lady shut in all day, I'd drink and smoke a lot too.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Yeah, I'll admit, I was thinking of one like in the picture for some reason and trying to figure out how she was toting around jugs of wine, cigarettes, and an oxygen bottle on a Vespa.
Load More Replies... Ladytron 3 years ago
It's sad in a way but honestly, if I was dying I would do the same. I never understood why people feel the need to judge/control people for doing what's bad for them and no one else. Especially old/sick people- let them live how they want for the time they have left as long as no one else gets hurt. Same with doctors/care givers who won't give pain meds to people with little life left because of the risk of becoming addicted. I mean, why does it matter? Give them that last comfort if they want to.
jovis 3 years ago
I agree but being on oxygen and smoking is a kind of a bad idea since the spark can make the tank explode. So you should probably at least detach it during the actual smoking
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Suck it Trebek 3 years ago
You know, if you've gotten to that point in life whether by your own doing or not; I think I'd probably have the same f**k this life attitude too. I'm ready to go whenever.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
As the daughter of a little old lady who does same, it *can be* self-medication for massive PTSD. Let people wrestle with their own demons without jumping onto the pile, is my attitude.
Don't even 3 years ago
When I get to the point where my QOL is pretty low, it's drink and drugs all day til the universe decides to reclaim my atoms.
Bouche Clay 3 years ago
My mom's best friend died of lung cancer when I was in high school. She smoked like a chimney. She said they'd already killed her, so there wasn't any point in quitting.
#21
I work at a pet store. I judge ppl that get a pet and then buy the cheapest and the most trashy per food there is. A pet is a luxury and costs a lot of money, that's what these ppl don't consider beforehand. If you get yourself one you have to take good care of them and good food is a basic.
I'm not talking about ppl where life happened and are short on money, because this can happen to all of us. Usually those are the ones getting at least something a lil cheaper but still good quality.
Nah, I'm talking about the mf getting a big a*s Rottweiler and buying 15kg of Pedigree for 20€, complaining about the dog being expensive and he's wearing pricy clothing brands from head to toe.
Master Yoda 3 years ago
I silently judge people for putting clothes and shoes on dogs. They must be so hot and uncomfortable
gotham-panda 3 years ago
Some dogs don't have a heavy undercoat and no hair between their toes, so they can get cold on chilly or snowy days. Dog clothes do serve a purpose.
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Richard Head 3 years ago
I judge people or stores that sell "pets" SPCA has lots of different animals that need adoption.
SewingStaffy 3 years ago
My previous dog was so damn fussy about food. I tried her on everything I could get in the UK. Even started cooking for her. The food she ate every day, without fail, supermarket own brand. Loved to one week before her 17th birthday. As a staffie that was pretty good
over it already 3 years ago
Yeah, I have a 13 yr old mutt & she ends up with diarrhea on every food I've tried except for the basic Pedigree. *shrug
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 3 years ago
... I mean... I used to feed my cats Friskies and Whiskas dried kibble. Not sure what the quality was really like but they loved it and kept them alive.
Anne Reid 3 years ago
Mine will only eat the cheapest stuff in the market. I can totally afford better stuff, but they won’t touch it. The dog doesn’t care, so I buy only the really good stuff.
Load More Replies... Catte West 3 years ago
The cats get food, treats, litter, whatever they need first. Not the most expensive, but good brands and what they like best.
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
Oh noes, I my horribly inbred qugly dog-alien thing is suffering from the short face/bulging eyes/Lang back which made me buy it...
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
My pet is my furry child. You don't dress to the nines and barely feed your child.
Anita Ledford 3 years ago
People are getting priced out of owning any animal. Shots and wellness check for Little Bear, a 45 pound dog, cost $400.
VodkaInMySweetTea 3 years ago
Poor people are allowed to have pets, too, without deserving to be judged. However, I agree that buying the cheap food bcs it's what you can afford, and buying the cheap food bcs you resent spending money on an animal, are completely different things.
#22
As a waitress I judged the lady who said she needed her steak well done because she had a bad liver and couldn't process rare meat but then proceeded to order a vodka raspberry with her meal.
It was 11:30am
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago (edited)
Nah - she’s been told some random c**p about her liver and rare meat by a dodgy naturopath or some such. I’m sure of it.
Balso Steele 3 years ago
Then you'd be wrong in your assumption. With hemochromatosis, red meat can spike your ferritin levels. As long as there's no cirrhosis from it, it's still peachy to drink.
Load More Replies... Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
I judge people who order steak well done, especially a good steak. If you want well done meat, get a cheap cut.
Minath 3 years ago
Just about everyone judges me for having well done steaks, I tend to choose sirloin on the rare occasions I have it. I have tried so many times to reduce the cooking time but any blood and it turns my symptoms.
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Quarryville 3 years ago
For all I know the woman works night shift and this is her after work meal. Remember there are 24hours in a day.
Bobby 3 years ago
As much as you would be right as a human to do this you would also be wrong in the eyes of the law. Not serving because of a perceived medical condition? That law suit would be over so fast if it came to that. Besides she'll just butch to management, get you in trouble, and not change her behavior at all. That's a lot of trouble for a worse outcome
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Someone buying donuts, donuts holes and glue.
Stranger-Has Candy 3 years ago
I appreciated your other comments, especially the reply to Elaine. And now I learn you’re hilarious too! Keep being you, Mrs. Jan Glass. You’re awesome!
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Alias Delfs 3 years ago
Now what could you do with these assorted items? I got a donut snowman!!
#24
I worked as a cashier in high school and college. I only remember one combo that a customer brought through my register.
It was a Friday afternoon, and an older gentleman brought up a large, glass jug of red wine, tye biggest tube of KY Jelly we carried, and two potatoes.
I didn't say anything, but I thought to myself "This guy has plans for the weekend."
Donnie Mc00 3 years ago
I once asked my wife if she needed anything from the supermarket when on my way home. she asked for a bottle of red wine..then soon after texted asking to get a cucumber also. i don't know why, but as i held these two items at the checkout, many eyes were upon me.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
"Welcome to my TEDtalk. The human body is nightmarishly elastic. Here, let me demonstrate with these potatoes."
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
My mind is permanently boggled by the juxtaposition of KY and potatoes.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
I DO enjoy putting together still lifes or tableaux for my checkers at the market. My favorite combo was: 1 steak, 1 bag salt-and-vinegar crisps, a giant Cadbury, a packet of Oreos, ibuprofen, and pads. My cashier, also a woman, understood.
Betsy Green 3 years ago
There is something about the sisterhood when you place mix of those sort of items on the counter and get the Nod of Understanding
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Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Somehow, I would be less worried myself...
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Shannon Veillon 3 years ago
that sounds like a bet, When I was in the military me and my buddies would play a game were you had to pick three things to buy and the person that got the best reaction from the cashier would win.
#25
Not the woman herself or family that may or may not exist, but the system in place that's supposed to take care of her.
She obviously suffers from dementia and it's pretty bad. Throughout the years she has probably spent thousands of dollars on socks because she's "out of socks". She's obviously not but I'm really judging the system that's supposed to take care of people who are this sick. I always try my best to avoid her buying more socks than she initially came for, but other than that there isn't much I can do. So much money down the drain on socks.
Vix 3 years ago
I work on self scan department and one regular customer I have seen a very obvious decline in her abilities (my Mam passed away with Dementia)It's heartbreaking to see. I've ensured other staff are aware and help her whenever she's in
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago (edited)
We had this happen at a thrift shop I worked at. A lady with dementia kept checking out and browsing, then checking out again. Spent over $100. I asked her about the furniture she bought earlier as she had it held for a later pick-up time. She said, "What furniture?". It made me so sad! I had asked our district manager about if there were any policies to protect our elderly customers. She responded in a scolding tone, "A customer's disabilities are none of our business!".
Tom Murphy 3 years ago
Have you considered she's using those socks for some other purpose? Like making puppets or dolls for chemo kids? I'd like to know what a doctor is doing working as a cashier.
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
Doesn't have to be, he/she is not treating, just telling a story.
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Well I don't know about "judgement", as I have my own vices, as most people do, but...
Lottery tickets. I get that gambling addiction is a problem and why, but unlike drinking or other drugs, it seems like so little reward for so much investment. People pissing away in minutes what it would take me all week to earn, right in front of my eyes, not even waiting to leave the store to scratch off a whole stack. Again, not really judgement, I don't know these people or their lives, but certainly the most upsetting on a certain level I feel.
Ross Warren 3 years ago
I hate getting stuck in line behind these people. They will stand at the counter to scratch off all their tickets and then spend their meager "winnings" on more lotto tickets and repeat the process. That's a separate transaction. Get to the back of the line. Some of us are just trying to pay for gas and coffee so we can get to work.
Miranda Small 3 years ago
Exactly. Only time I was obnoxious to another customer intentionally was like this. Power outage, meant the only place still "open" to get food was the gas station. Every other place couldn't serve anyone, even with cash, because their whole system was down. I had a half hour lunch break, and was just trying to get back to work to eat my depressing gas station lunch. Lady in front of me gets 10 tickets, starts scratching them. I politely say excuse me, thinking she probably didn't know I was waiting. Nope, she snaps at me to wait, she isn't done. I wait another minute, but it's obvious she is going to scratch all of them. The employee looked uncomfortable. Finally I had it and just said, lady some of us have places to be, move out of the way, and basically got into her space so she moved. She called me a name, but don't be that inconsiderate!
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Penny Hernandez 3 years ago (edited)
Two of my sons live in Las Vegas (they work in civil engineering, not gaming) so I visit them there. After seeing people rush off the planes to use the slots in the airport and gambling obsessively in casinos and bars, I thought I should sit outside a casino with a bucket and just tell people to toss their money in it. I'd just burn it up for them and save them the time they'd spend gambling it away.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Gambling addiction is an interesting one (if you can use that term on any addiction). Everybody gets a rush of endorphins when they win. If they have won a few times, for some people the rush of endorphins starts just before they win, and of course, that means that they now get the rush whether they win or not. All a gambling addict needs is a few small wins every now and then to reinforce that rush. So that person that you sae win the price of a few tickets just got a huge reinforcement, and needed those extra tickets as much as an alcoholic needs their next drink.
Anne Reid 3 years ago
I worked the lotto machine in a pharmacy, and can confirm! The worst was when people missed the cut-off for drawings. At a certain time, the machines no longer allow you to buy tickets because they’re about to pull the winning numbers. Some people would have angry meltdowns over missing the cutoff. Others had panic attacks, or started crying. I felt awful for them.
Load More Replies... Lily bloom 3 years ago
That pic was taken at a Cumberland Farms in CT. Pretty sure I've been there. Sorry, just strange to see something so familiar on a site like rhis.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
I know, if I didn't control it, that I would have a gambling problem. It's always the "what if it's this time I get lucky" mentality. But I always feel embarrassed and judged for going to the corner store, buying some snacks and a scratch game. I try to keep it to one and only those $1 ones.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
I used to work for a drug mart and had to deal with that as well. Turned me off of gambling altogether.
S Mi 3 years ago
Gambling addiction is extra complicated...because technically winning big often could solve or relieve many problems.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
People will lose more money than they win. For those with deep gambling addiction it doesn't stop when they win big. They'll just keep on gambling more money in hopes to win bigger until they have nothing left to gamble.
Load More Replies... tamèreestchaude 3 years ago
My dad used to get lotto tickets for fun on car rides. He would get 3 and since its illegal for minors to do scratch offs, if one of the cards he scratched for me or my sister won, he would claim the money for us and we would use it for silly things like candy. We never scratched them a the front, but always in the car
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I agree I don't get why anyone would bother wasting their money on lottery tickets, but since it is the only vice my dad has, and it is better than the pokies etc I try not to judge.
#27
Literally the *only* thing that ever stood out to me was people late at night buying 6+ bottles of non-mint mouthwash. Absolutely 100% of the time they were drinking it.
Commander Ducky 3 years ago
Is there alcohol in mouth wash or some type of drug? I don't know if I'm stupid for not knowing but im curious
Lawrencium 3 years ago
Fair question, don't feel bad! Yes, there's alcohol in mouthwash.
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Wood Carver 3 years ago
Don't judge this, lament it. My poor aunt was an alcoholic, it got bad, but she would try so hard. The time she did this, it was because she had sworn to herself that day she wouldn't drink, come 10pm and the liquor stores closed and she knew she couldn't get any and her brain went obsessive... at 3am she went to the drug store. At 6am my mother found her and called and ambulance ..... alcohol is so much more addictive than we give it credit for. And it kills so many, but we advertise it and make it part of our every day life. I miss her
I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago (edited)
What's not advertised is the fact that it's carcinogenic (and not lightly either, kinda up there with cigarettes). I'm very sorry about your Aunt.
Load More Replies... Colin Timp 3 years ago
Had a buddy that worked for a big box store in Bismarck, ND. He said that mouthwash was the #1 most stolen item. Some people would open a bottle in the isle and chug it down.
Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
Mouthwash rarely has alcohol in it anymore, similar to cough syrup, but both volatile compounds and the placebo affect will produce effects. Be I spent a few years addicted to OTC antihistamines, I’d overdose on them and they’d have an effect alright. A sick headache, serious nausea and sometimes a serious tremor. Would also lose all appetite. I beat it….but have never figured out why I was compelled to take them….
Diolla 3 years ago
So, why do ppl drink mouthwash for the alcohol? Is it cheaper than buying wine cartons or off-brand beer?
I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago
Sometimes yes, also sometimes it's the only thing available if the liquor stores are closed but drug stores or convenience stores are open.
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When I was a cashier on the Express lane, I would silently judge the people that told me to wait while scanning their items to "grab a few more things". Normal lane with a giant cart and only missing one thing is relatively okay, but the express lane? Judgement.
Wood Carver 3 years ago (edited)
No. Sorry this has always been one of my pet peeves. You have entered the I am done shopping line.... if you would like to recommence shopping because you have not got everything 2 options exist. If you haven't started checking out, leave the line. If you have, complete check out, put groceries in car, try again. Why do I have to stand while you shop and check out at the same time because you'll "just be a minute" you're the same person who parks in the fire lane out front to run in to grocery shop or blocks the exit ramp to the handicap spot because you just need a little more space..... all of the rest of us did this right and you're taking the one resource you cannot replace, my time, and stealing it for your convenience.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Same thing with drive through ATM machines. Like, dang people, what are yall trying to do, diversify your 401k and apply for home equity loan? Either go inside the bank or at least pull back around after each transaction. If you have to put in your card and PIN more than twice, you're doing it wrong.................Ok, sorry about that. Had a moment and went in a rant. I'll step off my soapbox now.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 3 years ago
If there is no one behind me, and it's obviously not a busy time, sometimes I do forget the odd thing. Like, if I decided to grab perogies and then I realized I don't have sour cream at home. I'm running to that aisle and making a quick grab. But the store I go to isn't like a giant big box store, either. So it's never a huge issue. Sometimes the cashier can just suspend my tally until I get back so they can serve the next person. But obviously if there are a lot of people I'll just do the transaction first and then go back, get the item and get in line again.
Willem Groenewald 3 years ago
Oooo, this reminds me the lady I saw at our local supermarket. At the peak of the pandemic when it was mandatory to wear a mask, this maskless lady stood at the express checkout with a full trolley of groceries. The "you can't tell me what to do" attitude oozed out of her.
Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
Heh, had a Parker in the handicapped loading zone once. Marched in the sandwich place and said “if you are driving the white van parked on the striped handicapped loading zone, I am about to get my husband out, with his big wheelchair and I guarantee we will scratch your car. Legally.” Lady in line squeaked “l didn’t know that’s what it was for!” Everyone just kinda rolled their eyes at her and she left to move said van very quickly. She didn’t come back.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#29
Not a cashier, but this is a fun story. Was in a high end liquor store in LA a few years ago. Guy walks in, goes straight to the cashier and asks for help. He said his boss is a famous rock star, and that he was sent to buy a number of bottles of the best whiskey and scotch they had in the store, but he knows nothing about whisky and scotch. The guy helping him suggests a few bottles in the $50 range, and he keeps saying no. Said his boss would be pissed if he bought stuff that cheap. The cashier gets excited, and goes over to the locked rack...The guy says this was the right stuff, simply because it was expensive. He walks out with at least 10 bottles of booze none of which were less than $500 each. I watch him jam every single bottle into a back pack, and jump on a really nice motorcycle, and speed off.
He paid cash.
My judgement of this guy is that he was not likely lying about working for a famous rock star.
Bobby 3 years ago
Yeah... as someone who has worked at a high end liquor store (most expensive bottle we ever sold was 50k, a 65 year old scotch) this story is exaggerate at best. Most of the high popularity but expensive whiskey was hard to get one bottle in stock let alone 10 of them.
tamèreestchaude 3 years ago
Most people won't brag they work for a famous rockstar. A lot of them have to do a secrecy swear so that Crazy fans don't find where they live, where they shop, where they're going next, and even their next song lyrics. So this story is 100% fake, and this guy probably was just paying in cash that he cashed out at the bank. Also this wasn't a silently judging what you bought story, I think it was just for this cashier to brag that they thought that somebody came in to buy stuff for famous rockstar
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
Personal assistants to celebrities and musicians are really common here in LA. I'm a makeup artist and have to regularly shop for products for my clients. I don't name names but sometimes have to point out that I'm looking for specific things for red carpet events and that they will be photographed so that can mean certain products aren't good for that. You're correct in that they all have to sign strict NDAs but some of them will say they are shopping for someone famous so they will get access to the top tier products. Stores here will go out of their way to appease celebrities, lol
Load More Replies... Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
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Diolla 3 years ago
I worked as an PA for a famous singer once.... but never saw reason to mention this when just going to a shop to purchase things. I did go shopping with him from time to time but he did not go for super expensive stuff and tried to stay incognito. Well I suppose everybody is different.
#30
Had a customer buy a pack of condoms and 3 cucumbers. Tried not to judge but damn.
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
That would be the opposite of the usual way it happens.
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#31
There's a convenience store nearby that prominently sells whip-its, i.e. the little nitrous oxide cylinders nominally intended for whipped-cream dispensers ... which people actually just crack into a balloon, inhale, and get high on. If I saw someone there buying a few boxes of those, I would judge them as having a high risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. Nitrous oxide will oxidize the B12 right out of your bloodstream. Eventually your nerves get all f****d up. Folks, even convenience-store drugs are actually drugs and can have side effects. Also, don't freeze your face off.
Ashla Delana 3 years ago
Some people buy a lot of those cylinders so they don't have to buy them for a while. My parents currently have two large boxes and I don't even remember when they last bought any
Wintermute 3 years ago
To be fair, those canisters have a lot of other uses as well. Paintball guns, portable power tools, kitchen gadgets, science projects. That said... yeah, they're huffing em.
Suck it Trebek 3 years ago
Most people who do those know to take extra B12 vitamins before they go on a "binge". Even most regular users, take a break long enough that they're bodies can absorb the B12 again. Take extra doses before they start up again. And even if they do a ton one night for fun once in a while it's really not a big deal. It's not enough to do harm. It really only affects idiots who do them all the time without knowing. Like most, "substances" you should know what you're doing before you start taking it. Says my friend.....
Jackie Spencer 3 years ago
I've heard that midwives can suffer from this too because of the drugs used in childbirth and the cumulative impact of being at lots of births.
Donny Bereznak 3 years ago
I use to work at a head shop, whip its and head cleaner were big sellers.
Himory TheDreamer 3 years ago
I have B12 deficiency and have no idea why but it's true my nerves are f****d up as part of my chronic disease... never thought both things could be related.
#32
As a cashier at a clothing department store, I don't have a reason to judge anything they buy. But I do judge the ones who force me to answer stupid questions. I'm amazed of how many people will literally start yelling at workers because we didn't have the exact shorts he wanted. One time, this guy asked me repeatedly if I had his size in the cargo pants he wanted. And loudly too, "no but really, do you have it!?" like over and over and over. His family had to tell him to shut up several times. Like, I'm not holding back from giving you the size, we just don't have it. I hate when people come up to me and go, "look i really like this but it's like $85, so like... what can you do for me here?" Excuse me, do I work for you now? It's a nike item, I can't just give you discounts because you're bitter about the price.
Karl Baxter 3 years ago
I used to get some customers haggle over everything - they were usually Middle Eastern in appearance with poor English so I suspect it’s the norm where they’re from. I had to politely explain that the price was the price and I had no discretion on the price. Not judging - more of a cultural misunderstanding
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
I've heard this as well, that haggling over price was a cultural norm for some folks from the Mid-East.
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Lawrencium 3 years ago
When working at a thrift store we would often get customers who would remove price tags so they could try to negotiate the price. When cashiering I found it amusing when customers were a little less subtle than they were hoping: "mam, I literally priced this item myself less than an hour ago"
Celia T 3 years ago
One of the wealthiest women in my area (small town) switches tags in our store all the time, Cuts open stuff, just to see what she can get away with. She’s never tried it with me but the young kids…
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Erin Witzke 3 years ago
I was checking out at a kohl’s and all my items were black. They were for a bartending job I had just gotten and that was the dress code. The cashier gives me a weird look and starts going on about how she doesn’t understand why some people need to dress in all black all the time ( I’m assuming she meant goths. It’s was around 2002). Told her it was my work attire and who cares what kids decide to wear anyway. Leave them be.
Catte West 3 years ago
Had a lady throw a string of beads at me because I wouldn't give her half price. Every weekend she bought beads. Same argument. We called her the Brad B***h.
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
Because you can negotiate for houses and cars does not translate to things like shoes or clothes.
Amy Broderick 3 years ago
I once had a couple of elderly ladies try to get me to honor a coupon that they said they were given the day before. It was 4 years old. They were very irate with me that I wouldn't honor it. It was all of $2 and they were not spending more than $10. What a couple of jerks they were.
#33
It’s hard for me to judge any item cause most are pretty tame/ fitting for the person however I do have this one regular… this regular lady comes in multiple times a day and always gets a small bottle of alcohol (like Southern Comfort or Fireball) and she ALWAYS tells me, “I’m marinating chicken, I don’t drink” or other times she tells me, “they are for my husband” and then later in the day she tells me, “I’m so lonely without my husband.” I know she might be going through some stuff but I always think to myself, “I honestly don’t care lady, as long as you pay for it”.
FinkAdele 3 years ago
It's pretty simple: pour yourself a glass of alcohol and threw away the chicken.
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Tamra 3 years ago
This is an alcoholic's tactic. Trying to limit the amount they buy, but realizing one little bottle isn't gonna do it, hence multiple trips. She likely feels ashamed, so she comes up with various excuses, because she doesn't want anyone to think she's an alcoholic. Source: I'm a recovering alcoholic and I used to do this.
Suck it Trebek 3 years ago
I would just judge her for wasting her money on constantly buying small ones instead of the larger ones to save money.
Demongrrrrl 3 years ago
Buying a small one lets her fool herself that she doesn't have a problem.
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Susan Raskin 3 years ago
sad story and most are unaware how many of our elderly have fallen into alcoholism to medicate the depth of their loneliness. Too many live in isolation.
#34
This is going back a while, but I used to cringe inside when people bought those handwash / bodywash brands with all those little microplastic balls for exfoliating purposes. I'm so glad that fad died out.
Key Lime 3 years ago
There was an Apricot Scrub that had ground up Apricot pits to exfoliate. Absolutely brilliant, all natural.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
No, that was horrid, because the pits didn't break down, so it was too rough on your skin. The best exfoliants are sugar or salt, because they break down, and can have astringent/toning properties. Make sure whatever you're scrubbing with breaks down, unless it's, like, a pumice stone!
Load More Replies... Stephanee Ansell 3 years ago
I heard a story once where a girl got a yucky infection from one of those tiny balls getting lodged in her pore...yikes!
Sherrie Dawn 3 years ago
It didn't exactly die out. Microbeads in rinse off cosmetics got banned years ago
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I had a hair conditioner that had that once as a kid. They must have changed the ingredients because I hadn't had a problem before. I had an allergic reaction to it, but also told mum there was plastic in it that scratched. She thought it was only the allergic reaction making me think that. It took years until we actually heard that some products did this.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 3 years ago
I feel the same way about wipes, especially about individually wrapped makeup wipes. Those are infuriating.
I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago
Those are meant to be for travelling but people get lazy.
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My mom has a thing about buying cucumbers. If she needs only cucumbers for a salad or something, for some reason, she feels incredibly embarrassed buying only a cucumber. She will buy other miscellaneous things that she doesn’t need just so that the cashier doesn’t get any wrong ideas.
Jul Chv 3 years ago
Yeah. Allways add condoms when you´re buying cucumbers or zucchini, let the cashier have their fun with it. ^^
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
Jul. A cucumber can't get you pregnant, you know. /s
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Wintermute 3 years ago
My wife was buying one cucumber once for a new cocktail recipe. I sneakily slid a small bottle of vaseline onto the belt behind it. Laughter abounded.
#36
I guess technically not a cashier, but I check people out sometimes. I work in a high-end cheese shop. Prima Donna is garbage, you can get it at Shop Rite, it's mass-produced nonsense that has gotten its talons in the Italian-American community even though it's a "gouda" made in Holland, they buy it bc it's Italian sounding and that's what they grew up eating. (I put "gouda" in quotes bc it's a sham of a cheese that uses quick-ripening starter to mimic the aging process other goudas go through to crystallize). This was an esoteric rant.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
What do you find comment-worthy about the existence of a high-end cheese shop?
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Samantha Gallison 3 years ago
Good to know. I love random bits of facts like these. Even when they are biased.
#37
Vaseline, cigarettes, wine, and stool softeners. Was helping father by going to the store to pick up doctor prescribed items for him after he got out of the hospital. I never read the shopping list clearly before I left and didn't put two and two together until I got to the register with my wife who was with me. The young lady cashier blushed and said "You planning for a good evening?" I smiled and smiled yes we are without thinking. The cashier definitely judged us that evening. She would smirk every time we came to the store after that. The whole thing went over my head until I was sitting in the car getting ready to go. My wife looked at me an said that was embarrassing.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
The clerk was out of line. You shouldn't have to explain these things.
Shannon Veillon 3 years ago
I have a young looking mom. so when I was with her checking out with a bottle of ménage a trios wine the cashier had to make a comment. My mom got all red in the face and yelled at him "THAT IS MY SON"
#38
I've been a cashier for a year now (but worked in stores for over 2) and honestly I've never really judged someone for the products they're buying. Of course I've been in funny situations. For example when I still worked in our local drugstore: there was this woman who always came to buy pregnancy tests. Like every week she'd buy at least 4. We made smalltalk for a bit and found out that she wasn't even trying to get pregnant, but she had a lot of pregnancy scares. Fast forward 4 weeks. The lady had been back at least six times since I made smalltalk with her. My coworker also heard why she always came to buy the tests and bluntly said: "ma'am isn't it way cheaper to just buy condoms instead of 4 pregnancy tests per week?" Never saw the lady again Another story: they sell sex toys at the drug store. You'd be surprised how much people buy em. One day this lady bought this toy and kept making eye contact with the cashier, so it was kinda akward. The the woman proceeded to say to the cashier while awkwardly laughing: "well sometimes your hand isn't enough right? Ha ha ha...." And then she left, only to come back 2 days later to complain abt the toy not being strong enough... Yeah the drugstore was fun
Lily bloom 3 years ago
The only thing I've ever said to someone buying a pregnancy test is "I hope you get the result you are hoping for"
Ladytron 3 years ago
Well... not as bad as 4 tests per week but when I was on hormonal bc I lost my period. That freaked me out so badly I took at least one test/month. That constant worry + hormones was a really bad combo for me. Maybe something similar with this woman? Or she's very desperate to get pregnant, have irregular cycles and have gone into the frequent testing craziness? (Quite rude to suggest buying condoms regardless, none of that persons business)
#39
Back in high school I was a cashier at a grocery store. I only remember one purchase. We had a “hispanic aisle” and one of the top sellers were these tall skinny glass jar candles that had stickers of religious people on them. An older white guy came in and bought EVERY. SINGLE. LUBE we had in the pharmacy section, and 12 of these candles. Nothing else.
#40
I worked at a music store in the late 90’s. We judged the sh*t out of you. Are buying the latest bubble gum pop mass media produce c**p? You’ve been Judged! You buying the latest uninspired gangster rap album from a guy that never held a gun until they made the music video? Judgement! Are you buying a single for $5 and the LP is $6? Cheap a$$, judgment! Are you buying the next Jeff Foxworthy album that only 15 minutes long instead of the 60 minute full show? Judged! Are you buying a stack of a 100 45’s from the back of the store? Mad respect, judged! Are making me looking up Metallica import from Japan in this giant book? I’ll be ordering 4 of those, thank you sir. Judged! Are you buying all 14 of the Barney VHS tapes, every baby Mozart/Bach/Beethoven album and the TLC album, hang on mom, let me find you a coupon and another discount, those are not cheap. No Judgement!
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Yeah. You can appreciate every last note of a complicated piano piece and still like to do dishes with Sugababes on full volume! All music snobs or gatekeepers I've known (and I lived next to a university for music and theatre) were bitter, usually lonely guys who are only romanticised when Ryan Gosling plays that role.
Load More Replies... Colin Timp 3 years ago
I bought the Metallica import from Japan (CD only, no book) Circuit City was still in business.
Tammy Kirks 3 years ago
I also worked in a music store in the late 80's and judged people by what they bought. I was a HUGE music snob. Now, I mostly judge people if they are being closed-minded (including myself) and not trying new music. While I'm not a fan of most "modern" music, there's talent out there and it should be appreciated.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
Came here to say this. The judgemental dudes probably think Zep and Clapton are totally the best and have never listened to blues from before the 1960s, which is why I judge judgemental music store dudes harder than they can judge me. They probably don't have 6000+ Edison 78rpm recordings from before 1925. Oh yeah, that's how the judgee became the ultimate pretentious judgmental a*****e!
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norabest321 3 years ago
The OPs job at the store must be very very boring in order to spend that much effort judging people who just want to enjoy the music they like. Thank goodness I listen to weird a** music I would never be able to find in a store.
#41
I bought toilet paper and laxatives at the same time. Teenage cashier looked at it and got the giggles. This got the bagger laughing. I just stood there stupidly pretending it wasn’t funny.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago (edited)
Should've gotten an air freshener and a few magazines, too.
John Borodin 3 years ago
I'm kind of immune to that kind of think I'm so old I'd crack a joke about it ,knowing when they get to be my age you need Kikng Kong to squeeze you by the throut to take a d...p
#42
I don't judge you for your items: I judge you for how much of a pain in the a*s you make my life. Sometimes not at all, sometimes it's the worst part of my day. The latter camp is always being judged, and always being s**t talked in the break room afterwards.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
I always say please and thank you to every cashier, and calculate my cash total beforehand with a pocket calculator (tax included). They have enough c**p to deal with, even if I'm not there.
Rózsa Nyerges 3 years ago
I still do not understand why Americans do not include the tax to the prices.
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I was a Target cashier, and never really paid attention to what people bought, with the exception of a guy I went to high school with who came in regularly, and no matter what he bought, he would always buy a bottle of Target's generic caffeine pills. I know he was selling them as "white crosses", i.e. speed.
Karl Baxter 3 years ago (edited)
Oddly enough, real speed (dextroamphetamine) is much more pleasant ride and a lot better for your heart than caffeine which is a pretty dirty and unpleasant stimulant that can be fatal in sufficient quantity.
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over it already 3 years ago
Makes me think of a mess of an ex-friend back in the raver days of the late 90s - went to a rave, he decided to sell Motrin IB to club kids telling them it was "Men in Black" ecstasy pills. Had to run at some point to avoid him getting beat up. Dumbness. He ended up in jail for selling drugs years later.
#44
It's the returns that make me suspect. I don't mean things like half eaten food, I mean stuff that's likely just taken off the walls and "returned" for credit. The store has a very generous return policy and we can't say no to someone unless a manager intervenes, so local homeless and addicts take advantage of this by pocketing small expensive items like shampoos and Sonicare brush heads, walking out one of the entrance doors, sticking the stolen items in a shopping bag and walking up to customer service for a big store credit card. I once had to give someone who did this almost $80 on a card and they immediately used it to buy several cartons of Marlboros. Other than that I can't stand people who will abandon their entire order if just one of their coupons won't work/is expired. Buy $50 worth of two items, and me 20 coupons, one doesn't work and they say "nevermind" and walk away even though they'll only have to pay $3 at this point.
Lily bloom 3 years ago
Where and when can one get "several cartons on Marlboros" for $80? OP must mean packs, not cartons
StrangeOne 3 years ago
The only time I really done this, and not really on purpose, was when I thought I could transfer my Airmiles reward miles to cash miles, and get myself some food at Safeway. I had no real money in my account and a week away from payday. After making, what I thought was, the transfer I headed to the store, got a bunch of food and went to the till. There was a line up behind me, too. My Airmiles card declined. I was very confused and told the cashier about the transfer and she pretended she either didn't hear me or didn't care to. She just asked "Ok, credit or debit, or cash" really loud. I didn't want to full out admit I had no money but she was being all rushy rush. I got embarrassed and ran out of the store. When I got home and called Airmiles I was told they no longer allow reward miles earned to be transferred to cash miles. I can only change the preferred types of points I want to earn and if I want cash miles I have to start from scratch. I have about 1200 reward miles 3 yrs earne
Catte West 3 years ago
Lady used to buy clothes for a special event, wear them, wash them, replace the tags (she owned a tac-it gun), and return them. Eventually banned by the company from making any returns.
Hiram's Friend 3 years ago
I know women who buy clothes for a special event, wear them, and return them. They turn the tags under.
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The couponers 😵💫😱 dont get me started on the couponers!!!! I'm still traumatized by them, and I haven't worked retail in ages! And I'm not talking about a regular person clipping & using coupons (I love a good coupon!) But I'm talking about the extreme couponers who just about have rabies & attack you if something doesn't work
Uncanny 3 years ago
In Australia, you can’t get a credit without showing a receipt as proof of purchase. 🤷♀️
Oddly Me 3 years ago
That's most stores in the US too. So I guess scammers go around the parkig lot for receipts, the steal from whats on it. Now a lot of places ask you if you want your receipt.
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#45
i used to work at a sex toy store. i feel like people may think we judge everything they buy, but no. for vagina-havers, i’d judge the tightening creams and not for the reason you think. i wouldn’t be like hahahahahahahha loose pussyyyyyy! i’d tell them that what those creams do is actually cause a severe allergic reaction so your vaginal walls swell so it just temporarily feels tighter. and if they were still down i’d judge. like you’re willing to put your coochie through that for a man!?!? nope nope for penis-havers, if they bought a sound…… i was just like………… oh he a *freak* freak. he can get down with the get down. i’d be very impressed.
srcuomo 3 years ago
Looked it up. Was aware they existed, didn’t know what they were called. https://lovegasm.co/collections/urethral-sounds?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjIKYBhC6ARIsAGEds-JoR8ZITFlBZNV75JpE4fLaDwVQhtQEnmHtZZ9TtbwXp7cpy25JlNgaAuu7EALw_wcB
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LinaLovesBooks 3 years ago
What's a sex toy. Forgive me for the stupid question, as it seems like common knowledge.
Jessica Tolar 3 years ago
It is a device that mimics sex for the purpose of masterbation
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Himory TheDreamer 3 years ago
I'd love to work at a sex shop, particularly if it's aimed at more than just people who only do vaginal sex (here these shops are usually full of penetrative toys aimed at straight cis women, very rarely there is some stuff aimed at straight cis men). Also you can do sounding and urethral play without a penis as well whether or not it will feel good really varies from person to person kinda like a**l and you need way way more care with that as the hole is way smaller.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 3 years ago
I am really enjoying the doubling up of words, like nope nope and freak freak. I think I will start doing this.
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I didn't judge people on what they bought, but I definitely judged them on what they returned. A woman once returned a bag of dirt as "defective" because when she opened it a fly flew out. Like, lady, it's DIRT, just put it in your yard and bugs will go in and out of it all day long. Still one of the stupidest things I ever saw.
LoudMansLover 3 years ago
I can see if it was infested. Potting soil really shouldn't have clouds of bugs shooting out (this has happened to me a few times). If it's for pots in your home that's going to cause problems.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
Adding 1:1 of hydrogen peroxide and water and pouring it into the soil kills the larvae on contact. I had to do that with my shamrocks and fuchsias. It takes a few times. And keeping a fruit fly trap nearby will attract and kill the adults.
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Jane Cortez 3 years ago
Yes, fungus gnats. They can damage plants and spread to other plants. They might even have been aphids which fly at some point in their lives and decimate plants.
chad johnson 3 years ago
Fly infested dirt can be horrible for indoor planting, context may be missing here
#47
I once bought a paper towel holder from Walmart, the kind that sits on your counter with a base and a long slender tube on the centre of the base. The kid at the register was smirking and giving me side eye. I tried explaining what it was but he didn’t believe me.
Hey! 3 years ago
I bought one like that and it's very heavy. It holds my tapes for crafting. Tape-Holde...5a65f3.jpg 
#48
Not judged as much as hated when people bought dozens of those individually wrapped snack sized cheese slices. At my store we had to scan each one of them.
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Beth 3 years ago
I mean you can't really be upset that you have to do this. It's literally a part of the job you signed up to get paid to do. Ring things up over and over and check people out.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Don't try logic or reason - it does absolutely make no difference to the cashier if they have to scan 100 times the same product or 100 different items. As you said - it is their job. People just like to complain, I guess.
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Tim Douglass 3 years ago
Five people from my house taking lunches every day. All of them liked cheese sticks, some liked 2 a day in their lunch. Try to buy those by the case! Showed up at the checkout stand with 2 full boxes (I think it was 60 to a box or so). Even though they were closed boxes that I'd pulled from the back of the shelf, they had to open them up and scan every single one. No option to scan one and enter the quantity, just stand there while they go *beep* *beep* *beep* for what seems like an hour. Then get a receipt that CVS would be proud of. Everybody nearby was judging me.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Why not just buy real cheese? It would probably cost less and it would certainly mean less plastic.
Kelly Kenrick 3 years ago
They have to scan each skein of embroidery thread at Michaels, rather than just counting them and punching that into the till. I get that it’s for inventory purposes, but still that must be annoying.
#49
Not so much the items specifically but back in the day working at a Walmart it was very obvious when the welfare checks came in and watching people waste it on video games instead of essentials was quite eye opening.
Heather 3 years ago
Hate garbage posts like this. Worked in tech for over 20 years. An employer purposefully injured me and now I am on disability. What would be ok for me to spend my money on? My ex-husband is dying of cancer after working his whole adult life. Is it OK if he buys Mario Kart? This post isn't judgemental, it's ignorant.
Wood Carver 3 years ago
Came to say the same. After almost 50 years video games are still an inappropriate hobby and a waste. I suspect the same person never said every month a poor person came in to waste their money on books, to waste their money on hiking shoes, to waste their money on baking supplies.... let people even those that have the audacity to be poor, have hobbies so they don't go legit stir crazy
Load More Replies... Tams21 3 years ago (edited)
A single video game can often provide tens, maybe hundreds of hours of entertainment. In that sense, they are often much better value than books so does that mean people on welfare checks shouldn't buy books? Even poor people need a way to unwind and video games are better than alcohol.
Cyndielouwhoo 3 years ago
So are they automatically assuming it's welfare money based on appearance? Also, it's none of their business what people buy.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
And even if they are on welfare. So what, maybe they bought it as a gift for someone!
Load More Replies... Colin Timp 3 years ago
When you break down the amount of hours of entertainment you can get from a video game per dollar spent, it really isn't that expensive. Paying $50-$60 for a game that'll get you 100+ hours of entertainment vs. going to a 2 hour movie at a theater?
StrangeOne 3 years ago
Welfare cheques come in usually at the end and the middle of the month, along with how some people get paid. It always bothered me hearing people at my work making snarky comments about "welfare" or "child taxes being spent on Mcdonalds" and "all these welfare moms creating long lines". Shut up. Stop worrying about what people are spending on.
#50
The pH-balanced bottled water. Not even the fact that it was single bottled water, but that these ones typically have super thick plastic and even massive caps to have a "premium" feel, which makes me feel like the customer is a bit of a dips**t. [these](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=core+hydration&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi5.walmartimages.com%2Fasr%2Ffad92161-0a66-464c-887f-a84deae92481_1.d77f6cf066d7b60b71649fd3fee75a10.jpeg)
Just Another Girl 3 years ago
I like the thicker plastic bottle when I’m on the go and my to go cup from home has run dry. I reuse the thicker bottle for several days (cleaning it of course).
Steve Burton 3 years ago
That pH-balanced (alkaline) water is SUCH a scam. You body regulates it's own pH.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Really. Mostly people who buy bottled water are basically buying plastic bottles. Just drink your own tap water.
Karl Baxter 3 years ago
Depends on your area. In London, the tap water is vile. Where we are up North, the “council pop” is pretty decent 🙂
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DippityDooDerp 3 years ago
I drink Core water just cause I like the taste Core and Deer Park are the only water I'll touch and Deer Park is almost impossible to find here
Shannon Veillon 3 years ago
if they just had a station that I could pay a buck and get my bottled filled, I would do that.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
If it's on sale and cheaper than other water then I'll buy it. Usually don't buy bottled water but when I get thirsty while out then I'll grab whatever is cheapest
#51
I work at McDonald's. I question people that order a coffee with 10 or more sugar. That just seems excessive.
Kate Micheals 3 years ago
Many times they are coming off of heroin. I was in the ER nurse and we would commonly have heroin addicts coming into the same thing.
Bella V 3 years ago
I ask for almost that many if not more and I assure you I have never done heroin. I just like sweet coffee and MD coffee is quite bitter.
Load More Replies... #52
The ethos water at Starbucks. We literally give out free water and it’s way better than the ethos water like sir
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
I was in Cambridge a few ago. The tap water was awful. We ended up buy flavourings and concentrated juices to mix with the tap water to make it drinkable.
Load More Replies... #53
Anything of a large amount. I once saw a person buy like 15 boxes of redbull. The most concerning thing is that they were like 12.
#54
I work at a book store so for me it’ll be some of our republican books and some of the religious books. There’s one religious book we sadly sell that’s about conversion and I absolutely hate seeing people buy it. Doesn’t happen often (only once in my time there so far), but still. Occasionally I judge some people who buy the wrapped manga, but that’s only the old men who try to pretend they have no idea what is it, think I don’t know what it is, or try to talk to me a little too much about the manga. Like dude if you can’t tell by me shoving your porn in a bag and not answering your questions, I’m uncomfortable and want you to shut up.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
I'll buy the conversion books and turn them into a little gay throne for my little gay a*s to sit on.
#55
Flushable wipes I'm sure most people buying them are just ignorant and if they actually saw the fatbergs that end up in sewers and rivers, they might stop buying them. But I'm still judging you for not reading online before using them. A lot of them that claim to be flushable aren't actually flushable and even the ones that officially claim it can still cause blockages. Also, a little bit if you buy a plastic bag but even more so if you ask "is it free?" or you make a fuss about having to pay for it.
IDK_Something 3 years ago
It's the fact ppl don't realize the blockages wipes can cause in plumbing, even if they claim to be flushable.
Load More Replies... #56
When I worked at the liquor store we only judged people if they came back several times a day. Edit: I only did this because it was illegal to sell alcohol to drunk people, when you have someone making multiple trips during a shift they may be drunk, whether or not they where an alcoholic wasn't my concern, but yes I had to judge them.
#57
Certain As Seen On TV items. Most ASTV items are cheap, pieces of junk that don’t do as advertised.
#58
My first week when I used to work at Walmart, a guy bought $300 worth of potatoes and nothing else
#59
I was a cashier at a supermarket when I was in high school and there was a very smelly guy who regularly came in and bought ALL the chocolate milk in the whole store and nothing else. I think we fairly judged him as somebody who really likes chocolate milk and I wondered if there was some way to get high off nesquick.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
Maybe aliens erased his memories or changed the timeline? (MiB 3.)
#60
My local bottle shop guy asked me recently whether my weekly buy was for my use or whether I owned a bar. Not snarky but more in a ‘my culture doesn’t consume insane amounts of alcohol and I can’t understand how you are still alive and am concerned’ sort of way. Worst kind of judging really.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
I feel like that when I'm at the bar. I'll buy 5 to 6 beers for myself for a whole night of karaoke. It would literally be cheaper and easier on the bartenders to just get a pitcher and a glass for myself. I did so when I came with one other person and the bar staff looked at me like I was a troubled alcoholic and gave me our pitcher of beer with great hesitance. That was literally all I needed for the night. I think we refilled it once more and finished just half of the second pitcher between the both of us. We took a cab home and I don't drive, so it's not like I'm super irresponsible. I don't get black out drunk. Just good and tipsy and pace myself and never have caused any issues in the years I went there. So I have no clue why this one girl was so judgy. I'll even drink water and eat.
#61
I hate when a family comes in and buys 40+ packs of ramen, a crate of microwave burritos and a pack of beer. Those things are as expensive as bread and vegetables in our store.
Heather 3 years ago
Well this post is completely wrong. Not only are the "bad" foods cheaper, but they last longer. Poor shaming is a sport in the US.
LoudMansLover 3 years ago
They're as expensive as bread and veg? How many items do you get of each? I bet the 40+ packs of ramen and "crate" of burritos are more. 1 loaf of bread and a bag of carrots aren't going to go too far, you know. The beer, yeah, I get that. If you could dump that you could buy more food.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
But how long would the bread and vegetables ration out compared to the 40 pack of ramen and burritos?
Mori 3 years ago
You're missing the point. The point is, that healthy food is expensive. We should be addressing the major issue rather than shaming people for buying cheap unhealthy food.
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#62
I work in an art supply store. I don’t judge customers for their purchases. I do sometimes judge the over involved parents of college freshmen, the instructors at the local watercolor society who claim their students must buy the single most expensive watercolor brand we sell, and the people who ask if there are any professional artists with degrees who can answer their questions.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
I'm one of those people who are very particular with art supplies. I don't buy them too often but when I do it's all about quality. Prisma Colour will always be king to me. Crayola is nice for casual colouring. Laurentian is really nice, too. But for some reason the soft lead Prisma Colours are the Holy Grail.
Hey! 3 years ago
One time Michaels decided to take off the amount of discount you had on the receipt. I complained, saying how would I explain my purchases, buying all at full prices. Usually I can say I got $80 off! I used coupons! You know, that sort of thing. The discounts came back. I'm probably not the only one who complained.
kath morgan 3 years ago
Ok, my guilty one of these is the people who buy the shïtty supplies that are made for kids and barely work.
#63
Fuel that they don't pump right away. It times out after 8 minutes and refunds back to the card. I don't know why people pay, then f**k around for 20 minutes, then yell at me for their pump not working.
Just Another Girl 3 years ago
I get confused about people going inside to pay for gas. Paying at the pump with a debit card is way easier. You can stop the pump yourself when it gets close to your budgeted amount.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
Some people only have cash or maybe they want to get other things and get it paid for altogether.
Load More Replies... #64
Many years ago, I was a cashier at an evil giant retailer that favors the color blue. It was mid-summer and this lady only had 4 items: FDS feminine deodorant spray, Summer's Eve douche, a can of bug spray and a fly swatter. I couldn't help but wonder if there was a connection between all the items, but I was really hoping not.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
This makes me more self-conscious of the items I buy. Sounds like unrelated items my mom would buy when going on a trail ride with her horse.
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
Probably just no air conditioning. You're going to sweat from the heat and get bugs from the windows being open
#65
I used to work at a movie theater. We sold regular bottles of Dasani for $5 and people would actually buy them. I also judged people who brought their kids to Rated R adult movies. Bringing your toddlers who don’t understand is one thing but it’s weird to bring your 7 year old to Deadpool as if it’s regular super hero movie.
StrangeOne 3 years ago (edited)
The rating system is skewed. Some movies rated PG or P13 are worse than Rated R. Sometimes the movie is just Rated R for that one sex scene or nude scene and a few swear words. Meanwhile a PG 13 movie has people getting bludgeoned. At the end of the day, parents know their kids and they can make their own judgement calls. They don't need a High School kid working at the ticket both part time to tell them what's best for their kids.
Wintermute 3 years ago
I love movie theaters. I also understand that they're expensive to run and the business model is beyond the control of the theater itself. I don't mind paying extra on concessions to keep them open (as much as my poor a*s can). This person is literally judging the source of their own livelihood.
Hiram's Friend 3 years ago
When I was a projectionist (dating myself again), the theatre made all its profits from the concession stand the first week. Their percentage of the ticket sales increased over time, but the first week, they got nothing. As an aside, I've never been in a movie theatre that didn't have a drinking fountain.
Load More Replies... Miranda Small 3 years ago
Oh trust me, I absolutely hated the time I had to spend $6 on some gross bottled water at the movie theater. It was awful. My stomach was upset but I was thirsty, so went looking for something non-carbinated. Only option was that $6 water. Terrible
StrangeOne 3 years ago
I've had worse. There's one off-store brand that has a very flimsy bottle with the water tasting like it came from the toilet.
Load More Replies... #66
I was a cashier briefly when I was in high school. First customer who came into my line was a guy who came into my line with a bunch of roses and a box of condoms. I turned to the bagger and said "His apologetic and optimistic."
I was he was the only customer I had as a cashier. I was returned to bagger.
Hiram's Friend 3 years ago
Judging by the syntax, the cashier said it in front of the customer.
Load More Replies... #67
Fiji or Voss water.
Lawrencium 3 years ago
I liked the Fiji water bottles because they are square and wouldn't fall out of my backpack. I'd just refill that bottle from the tap. Worked great, and when you live in a desert it's important to stay hydrated.
#68
I worked the cash register at Pizza Ranch. It's a buffet style Midwestern chain with God-awful pizza, decent fried chicken, and a surprisingly good salad bar. There was an elderly couple that showed up every single day promptly at 5:00 for the buffet. How could you eat the same buffet EVERY DAY?! If we worked 3+ hours we could eat free buffet after 8pm. I ate that food about 3 days a week. Gained 15 pounds that year. I can't imagine choosing to eat there every day. The woman also looked like she slept in a tanning bed. I judged her for that, too.
Karl Baxter 3 years ago
I used to work at a high end restaurant and would eat the customer’s leftovers (if they hadn’t messed with it too much) so my diet consisted of prime NY style steak, blinis, sour cream and caviar. Made up for the rubbish wages.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
Maybe they like the food and it's a routine for them. Seems like they're enjoying their retirement.
#69
If I tell you, it wouldn't be a silent judgement any more! But there was this one lady, she stunk to high heaven. Theory is that her grey-beige t-shirts weren't meant to be. Would buy ready meals, cigarettes and wine, and always twice as much of the latter than the former. Multiple times a day, progressively more wobbly and less verbal... always when we were busy so I couldn't pick out her car and report her for obvious drunk driving.
#70
Worked as a cashier in a movie theater when I was in high school. Some people actually bought Good & Plenty. On Purpose. Juuuuuuuuuudge
StrangeOne 3 years ago
I've grown accustomed to some black licorice. I can never eat Good & Plenty. That name is an oxymoron for that "candy".
#71
When I was a clerk at a used bookstore, I would judge the people buying stacks of right-wing hack propaganda (Hannity, O'Reilly, Owens, Peterson, etc.) Of course, if it was my store, I would have shuffled those books into the trash.
Jessica Tolar 3 years ago
You cannot deny people knowledge and trashing books based on things you do believe is that very thing.
DippityDooDerp 3 years ago
Shouldn't work in a bookstore at all if you're going to judge someone's reading choices. I'm an avid reader and will devour any book I see, no matter what it's about, who wrote it, their skin color, religion, political affiliation, etc. Idc just let me read the damn book
Spiritastray 3 years ago
This gets to me. BP is OBVIOUSLY a left-leaning site. You should know this. So why do conservatives come on this site and get so outraged? It's freaking silly.
Load More Replies... #72
When I worked in a grocery store I would silently judge people who bough beers at opening hours (no stronger alcohol until the speciality stores open 2 hours after the grocery stores).
StrangeOne 3 years ago
If it's so wrong why sell it in the morning? Maybe it's for later on and the mornings are just the only times they have to get to the store. I swear some people shouldn't be cashiers.
Wintermute 3 years ago
I worked graveyard for years. Always did my shopping in the morning. I always enjoyed the thought of the cashiers thinking I was waking up at 7 am to buy beer.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
Used to work a swing shift. When you get off work at 6:00 AM sometimes a beer goes down pretty good.
#73
I work as a cashier at a vape store, I gudge kids who came in the store and try to buy a vape, of course I didn't sell it to them but still, kids under 16 come and go through the store looking at vapes and trying to steal them, f*****g parents
Lee 3 years ago (edited)
Right? Sometimes kids just do what they want to do in spite of their upbringing.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 3 years ago
Why is it the parents fault? They're getting other influences from friends and media and try to push their luck.
#74
I always judged people who bought Chunky Bars...chocolate with peanuts and raisins. With all the other candy we sell, this is the one you want most?!
#75
I used to work part time at Lowe’s in college. I absolutely judged you by your design decisions. Anecdotally, middle aged men usually picked the nicest, most agreeable designs. Old women usually picked the gaudiest looking anything.
Alysia Grey 3 years ago
One of my coworkers described a customer who had *all* the packs of persian cucumbers in her cart. As the coworker was scanning, the customer sighed, rolled her eyes and explained, “ The nanny is on a cleanse.” In the breakroom later, we all agreed that was the Whitest Sentence Ever.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
I'm a teenager and I'd go with warm cream paint with simple white or dark-brown accents. It's not that hard-just pick up one of those paint palette books! Choose a color, then add in a neutral of the same tone. If you're picking up green, you'd want a light, cool gray to complement it.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Or - I know this might come as a bit of a shock - just chose whatever you like.
Load More Replies... #76
Not items per say, but f**k those people who show up with a c**p ton of coupons and buy the maximum amount for each one. When I worked at a grocery store we had to key them in by hand per item. I still remember this one lady who split her transaction into 4 so she could get 100 Powerades at $0.55 apiece.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
I've never seen this happen. I'm not sure we have the coupon set ups to do that in Canada.
#77
wasn’t really a cashier, but i worked at target for sometime, i had the weekend off & me and my boyfriend got a hotel room & we’re planning some fun. we went into the target i worked at high & drunk trying to get in & out as quick as we could so none of my coworkers would see me.. we couldn’t find what we were looking for so i stopped one of the leads & asked where the lube, body oil, & bubble bath soap was. she stood there looking at us processing what i just said & laughed & told us where to go. many of the cashiers saw us checking out & monday everyone asked how my weekend was so. became a small joke for months
What do you think ?
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Posts about social anxiety: Don't worry about going to the shop, I promise the cashiers don’t give a sh*t about what you buy. ❤ --- This post: Lol, We judge everyone and everything and will remember you ever after!
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Upvote from me because I agree. (That rhymed, and I wasn't even trying!)
Load More Replies... Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
The customers I judged were the ones who'd let their kids run around and destroy things, who treated us like we were servants and our shop was at their disposal, or who were rude and entitled. However, I REALLY judged the customers when I worked doing data entry at a company that ran 1-900 numbers back in the early 90s. At LEAST once a day I'd get some guy for one of the sex lines that 1) wanted to pay by check but 2) didn't have a checking account and 3) wanted me to open one for him. At LEAST three times a week I'd get a dude for one of the sex lines where I could hear a kid crying "Daddyyyyyy!" in the background. And every month, I'd get someone who wanted to directly send us their welfare check to pay for a sex call. I judged HARD for all that. There was still plenty of free porn on the internet in the early days. Go buy your kid food, a*****e.
JMil 3 years ago
Dang. This one is unique to all other customer service threads I've read. How sad.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 3 years ago (edited)
The only time I judged a "customer" was that couple that barged their way through the closed gates after closing, refused to leave, ordered a coffee for him and his girlfriend because "we still had pots of leftover coffee" and we "can still technically take their money". They even took down some chairs we had stacked up. I wasn't very assertive back then and was too scared. I have regrets not calling mall security. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me to call them. Tim Hortons doesn't train you for limited hours, mall stores. Just trains you to be all smiley and accommodating to anyone who enters. I actually judge myself back then and made some improvements in my life to not allow anyone to walk all over me like that. But I still judge the couple more for having the audacity to break and enter an establishment, demand to be treated like a customer and take advantage of a 2 man crew at closing.
Cyndielouwhoo 3 years ago
I was in Target buying sanitary products and chocolate and noticed they had kitchen stuff on sale, so I grabbed something we needed there and got in line. The cashier looked at my order of pads, chocolate and a really big kitchen knife and said " Honey, he ain't worth it!"
Bored Turtle Princess 3 years ago
Umm... What were they thinking the kitchen knife is for?
Load More Replies... Yettichild 3 years ago
I went to Walgreens last week to get a prescription filled, and when it was ready the tech said very loudly "Here's your hydrocodone!" While smiling. I just gave him a WTF look. I was having knee surgery the next day. Currently sitting here icing that knee.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
Please file a complaint about that if this happened in the US. With medical privacy in America being in shambles, we need as many paper trails of people violating our medical privacy as possible. Walgreen's is already on thin ground with this.
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Robert T 3 years ago
I had a customer who judged themselves. Two young girls (18-25) came through my checkout. Their sole purchase was a single large carrot. I must've looked at it quizzically, as one of them chirped up "it's not for THAT". Thought hadn't even crossed my mind, but I very likely went a little bit red!
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
It's not for what? 🤔 Carrot soup? Bribing a rabbit? /jk
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Seedy Vine 3 years ago
I bagged groceries in a store where a young lady would come in, huff all the air out of the whipped cream containers, and then stumble her way into checkout with her two babies!
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I've never judged anyone, one of my first major jobs had been working in am adult store in a big city. Some people were very shy and I honestly didn't care, I'd rather you'd be more informed than anything else. I'm more worried now about people judging me. Most of my grocery trips ate thought out and have lists, but then I have random trips that are normally all about snacks. A fair size random assortment of junk food. I'm always worried I'm being judged and I'm thinking "I swear I don't always eat like a child!"
Krystol Grayson 3 years ago
I used to work overnights at WM and there were these two nursing students who would come in at 2am and buy the weirdest c**p. One night it was drug tests and they gave me this long giggly spiel about it being for some class (sure, fine, I wasn't asking but okay) and I just smile and ring them up. Two nights later it's a bunch of ladies unscented douche. Once again they giggle nervously and say it's for class... Right. A couple weeks later they show up again and one of them has a pregnancy test and gives me this really awkward "Yeah, you probably think we're crazy, right?" and honestly, it was only weird because THEY kept making a scene out of their visits and making me connect them all. So yeah, I definitely judged them.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Posts about social anxiety: Don't worry about going to the shop, I promise the cashiers don’t give a sh*t about what you buy. ❤ --- This post: Lol, We judge everyone and everything and will remember you ever after!
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Upvote from me because I agree. (That rhymed, and I wasn't even trying!)
Load More Replies... Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
The customers I judged were the ones who'd let their kids run around and destroy things, who treated us like we were servants and our shop was at their disposal, or who were rude and entitled. However, I REALLY judged the customers when I worked doing data entry at a company that ran 1-900 numbers back in the early 90s. At LEAST once a day I'd get some guy for one of the sex lines that 1) wanted to pay by check but 2) didn't have a checking account and 3) wanted me to open one for him. At LEAST three times a week I'd get a dude for one of the sex lines where I could hear a kid crying "Daddyyyyyy!" in the background. And every month, I'd get someone who wanted to directly send us their welfare check to pay for a sex call. I judged HARD for all that. There was still plenty of free porn on the internet in the early days. Go buy your kid food, a*****e.
JMil 3 years ago
Dang. This one is unique to all other customer service threads I've read. How sad.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 3 years ago (edited)
The only time I judged a "customer" was that couple that barged their way through the closed gates after closing, refused to leave, ordered a coffee for him and his girlfriend because "we still had pots of leftover coffee" and we "can still technically take their money". They even took down some chairs we had stacked up. I wasn't very assertive back then and was too scared. I have regrets not calling mall security. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me to call them. Tim Hortons doesn't train you for limited hours, mall stores. Just trains you to be all smiley and accommodating to anyone who enters. I actually judge myself back then and made some improvements in my life to not allow anyone to walk all over me like that. But I still judge the couple more for having the audacity to break and enter an establishment, demand to be treated like a customer and take advantage of a 2 man crew at closing.
Cyndielouwhoo 3 years ago
I was in Target buying sanitary products and chocolate and noticed they had kitchen stuff on sale, so I grabbed something we needed there and got in line. The cashier looked at my order of pads, chocolate and a really big kitchen knife and said " Honey, he ain't worth it!"
Bored Turtle Princess 3 years ago
Umm... What were they thinking the kitchen knife is for?
Load More Replies... Yettichild 3 years ago
I went to Walgreens last week to get a prescription filled, and when it was ready the tech said very loudly "Here's your hydrocodone!" While smiling. I just gave him a WTF look. I was having knee surgery the next day. Currently sitting here icing that knee.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
Please file a complaint about that if this happened in the US. With medical privacy in America being in shambles, we need as many paper trails of people violating our medical privacy as possible. Walgreen's is already on thin ground with this.
Load More Replies... Robert T 3 years ago
I had a customer who judged themselves. Two young girls (18-25) came through my checkout. Their sole purchase was a single large carrot. I must've looked at it quizzically, as one of them chirped up "it's not for THAT". Thought hadn't even crossed my mind, but I very likely went a little bit red!
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
It's not for what? 🤔 Carrot soup? Bribing a rabbit? /jk
Load More Replies... Seedy Vine 3 years ago
I bagged groceries in a store where a young lady would come in, huff all the air out of the whipped cream containers, and then stumble her way into checkout with her two babies!
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I've never judged anyone, one of my first major jobs had been working in am adult store in a big city. Some people were very shy and I honestly didn't care, I'd rather you'd be more informed than anything else. I'm more worried now about people judging me. Most of my grocery trips ate thought out and have lists, but then I have random trips that are normally all about snacks. A fair size random assortment of junk food. I'm always worried I'm being judged and I'm thinking "I swear I don't always eat like a child!"
Krystol Grayson 3 years ago
I used to work overnights at WM and there were these two nursing students who would come in at 2am and buy the weirdest c**p. One night it was drug tests and they gave me this long giggly spiel about it being for some class (sure, fine, I wasn't asking but okay) and I just smile and ring them up. Two nights later it's a bunch of ladies unscented douche. Once again they giggle nervously and say it's for class... Right. A couple weeks later they show up again and one of them has a pregnancy test and gives me this really awkward "Yeah, you probably think we're crazy, right?" and honestly, it was only weird because THEY kept making a scene out of their visits and making me connect them all. So yeah, I definitely judged them.
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