Self-service checkouts. They drive me absolutely bonkers. I try to avoid people at the best of times, but with this virus thing, I have even less desire to go anywhere near Jackie on till no.2 and have the next person behind me trying to breathe down my neck.
But these fecking self-service till things. First the larger one's with the conveyor belt, you can guarantee you pick the one where the belt doesn't work. Then you place your empty bags in bagging area "sorry item not recognised". Wait 10 mins for the numbnuts to finish their conversation to come and authorise it.
Scan one item and place in the bag then wait half hour before the damn machine is finally ready to allow you to scan the next item. You're a fecking computer, what's taking you so damn long. Place next item in bagging area to be greeted by "sorry item not recognised" and then wait another half hour for numbnuts to end conversation again and return to help out. And repeat.
Then comes the boxes of beer. All of a sudden the machine decides You're the one that's going too slow, as you trying to wrestle to get the beer in the empty bag buried under the rest of the shopping due to the pissy sized bagging area, to be then greeted by the "clearly you are a cripple for not getting the beer in your bag quickly enough, a colleague will be with you shortly".
Then wait half hour for numbnuts to turn up to authorise the alcohol sale. Get so wound up, by the time you pay, you've completely forgotten what your pin number is on the card you're using.
By time you leave, you need 6 months of counselling sessions. Then half your shopping decides to leap out of the bag/trolley as you try to negotiate the valleys of their tarmac on your way to your car.
I'm off for a lie down, before I punch the trolley boy