Is 32 greater than 10? Warning - rants ahead.

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/02/2016 at 19:52 • Filed to: None

Self-important prick in the express lane at Trader Joe’s today with 32 items in his basket. Excuse me? Can’t count? I’m counting the bananas as 1 item, not half a dozen. Yeah, the other lines are long, but suck it up you little bitch.

On the way home traffic backed up something fierce. But I was in the far left lane, which in this case is an exit lane. Lots of yellow signs indicating such, and a big, solid white line separating exiting traffic from through traffic. So if I’m in the exit lane, why am I crawling along like everybody to the right of me? Oh, Mercedes GL driver blocking everybody trying to exit because she wants to get ahead a few carlengths. Screw you. Thankfully my horn doesn’t work, but my non-tinted replacement window on the right side did allow me to give a nice one-finger salute to this annoying little @#$%.

Due to illness, today was the first time I’d been out of the house in days, and after dealing with these twits I wish I had stayed in...

DISCUSSION (15)

1111111111111111111111 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 19:56

Whenever the person in front of me has made than the 10 or 15 in the express lane I count them audibly as they’re scanned. And I might be an asshole too.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 19:57

Yeah, 15 small things is quick, but double the exception to the rule and that’s dick territory. I really call people out being dicks driving, when someone is just totally being an entitled cock I don’t fuck around. My wife does not enjoy it.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 19:58

Worse offender: the guy with 32 items in the express lane or the guy with 5 who then pays with a check?

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > 1111111111111111111111
04/02/2016 at 20:00

That’s a good idea. A little public shaming will go a long way, or so I hope.

It’s amazing how those of us that actually follow the rules are made to feel guilty because we’re not pushing the limits and boundaries. Not everything is a contest that needs to be won. What ever happened to being civil and polite?

1111111111111111111111 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 20:03

I love public shaming. I wish I could post weekly “who used the most Facebook and YouTube” reports at work.

boxrocket > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 20:05

I get where you’re coming from, and it irritates me too, but I’ve been and would be lenient on someone who, say, has two dozen oranges or something that takes one scan and some number pressing than someone with nineteen different items when there’s a ten- or fifteen-item limit. I’ve been guilty of taking more than 20 items through the self-checkout, but I can checkout and bag myself faster than the both the express checker and the regular checkout with fewer items.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
04/02/2016 at 20:07

I still can’t forget a trip to Home Depot years ago. Some stupid @#$%& didn’t want to wait in the regular line so she went over to the tool section right before I got to the register, with me nearly running into her because it was so close. I was buying tools and had no choice but to pay in that area, she wasn’t and didn’t need to be there. Not only did she pay by check, but she split her order in half and had to write two checks. ARGH!

And during this same trip someone carrying a couple of 2x4s on their shoulder turned and smacked me in the back of the head, hard enough to cause a nice sized bump, with nary an apology uttered. And then the whole orderal with security wanting to check my receipt, even though he had watched me during my entire time at the register.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > boxrocket
04/02/2016 at 20:14

I like the places that say ‘about 12 items’ instead of a hard number. Most people are reasonable about this, but there are plenty who are not.

I don’t really look at the total number of items; in today’s case I thought of the bananas as one item instead of 6. If I didn’t he would have had 37 items, but that’s getting a little petty. I think of it more in terms of how many scans or manual entries are being done. This guy was definitely pushing the bounds of reasonability.

There was one guy years ago that wanted to cut ahead of me in the regular line because he had just one item or two and I told him no. There was an express line and a self-check line, so he had several options that weren’t available to me.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
04/02/2016 at 20:21

I’m sort of that way when it comes to parking. I need to start a website with the pictures of the various offenders I’ve caught over the years, complete with license plates. The Goodwill Outlet store is the absolute worst, with lots of people making their own spaces instead of walking an extra 50 feet.

Surprisingly, there’s one person I see regularly that does a nice job of parking politely and not being a total dick. Since they’re driving a slightly blinged-out Mercedes G550 you’d think they’d be entitled douchenozzles, but I’ve never seen them do anything asshole-ish when over there.

LongbowMkII > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 20:21

A self important prick at Trader Joes? Surely you jest

Enginerrrrrrrrr > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 20:24

That driver is the reason I am getting ready to install an air-horn on my car. My normal one doesn’t send enough of a message.

jimz > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 20:41

the Kroger stores around me have moved to putting “about 15 items” on the signs for the express lanes. but double that is still a dick move.

the worst are the morons who go to the self-scan terminals with a full cart of groceries, and think it’s just the cutest fucking thing to have their four year old offspring scan all of the items. of course, it takes like five minutes per item.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Enginerrrrrrrrr
04/02/2016 at 20:42

Just make sure it’s a suitable rival to the one on Jeremy Clarkson’s W100 Grosser, something to wake the dead.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 21:33

Aaaaaaaaaaand this is why I shop at Lowe’s.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/02/2016 at 21:55

Lady in a new Pilot almost took me out moving into my lane on I-5 — in space I was already occupying. Had to do an emergency maneuver into another lane, which was thankfully empty (I actually used my mirror — what a concept).