The Official Complaint Thread!

[Sudafederov]

In the grocery checkout line...

Why do old ladies wait for the cashier to announce the total before they decide to open their purse and dig out their chequebook?

I mean would it kill them to start filling out at least some of the details beforehand?

 

[TheMightyOdin]

Paying by cheque at the grocery store? I haven't seen that in a long long time.

 

[Sudafederov]

Paying by cheque at the grocery store? I haven't seen that in a long long time.

There are some pretty stubborn old folks.  Love em' but come on...coming from somebody who pays by phone at Starbucks.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

wow, really? we don't take cheques at all at the grocery store where I work. Not even government baby bonus cheques etc.

But equally as frustrating as the slow cheque writer is the old biddy who waits until the cashier tells her how much it is to get out her purse. And then rifle through it for the wallet, struggle with the wallet to find the bills, go through all the bills to make as close as the amount (one bill at a time, I might add)....then go back for the coin purse to dig out fifty seven cents....one coin at a time, and recounting the amount or forgetting where they were. (In the meantime, the person behind her in line with one apple could have tilled the ground, planted the tree, grown the apple and picked it by the time the old lady's done)

 

[lamajama]

wow, really? we don't take cheques at all at the grocery store where I work. Not even government baby bonus cheques etc.

But equally as frustrating as the slow cheque writer is the old biddy who waits until the cashier tells her how much it is to get out her purse. And then rifle through it for the wallet, struggle with the wallet to find the bills, go through all the bills to make as close as the amount (one bill at a time, I might add)....then go back for the coin purse to dig out fifty seven cents....one coin at a time, and recounting the amount or forgetting where they were. (In the meantime, the person behind her in line with one apple could have tilled the ground, planted the tree, grown the apple and picked it by the time the old lady's done)

THANK YOU!!!!

 

[AvroArrow]

If we're complaining about people in the grocery store, how about people who stop in the middle of aisles with complete disregard for anyone around them.  They take up the whole flippin' aisle so nobody can get by and are completely oblivious.

 

[Scot4bz]

If we're complaining about people in the grocery store, how about people who stop in the middle of aisles with complete disregard for anyone around them.  They take up the whole flippin' aisle so nobody can get by and are completely oblivious.

I have just taken to plowing into them or their carts.

 

[sucka]

In the grocery checkout line...

Why do old ladies wait for the cashier to announce the total before they decide to open their purse and dig out their chequebook?

I mean would it kill them to start filling out at least some of the details beforehand?

Not just at the grocery store, also at Finch station parking lots - they've got all the time in the world while in line to get their credit card / coins out...but only start rummaging when they are at the gate.

 

[Scot4bz]

Don't get me started on the people in the Tim Horton's drive through that order the following;

Medium coffee, in a large double cup, with a shot of vanilla flavour, 1/3 decaf, 1/17 milk, 3/17 cream, 13/17 distilled water, half of an artificial sweetener, 1/4 tablespoon of sugar, a sesame seed bagel - 2 5/8 toasted with butter on one half, light strawberry cream cheese on the side, 40 timbits (which they choose one by one), and what kind of donuts and muffins do you have?

THEN they do the fumble for change routine!!

oh - and can you hurry it up, I'm late for my train.......

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

Don't get me started on the people in the Tim Horton's drive through that order the following;

Medium coffee, in a large double cup, with a shot of vanilla flavour, 1/3 decaf, 1/17 milk, 3/17 cream, 13/17 distilled water, half of an artificial sweetener, 1/4 tablespoon of sugar, a sesame seed bagel - 2 5/8 toasted with butter on one half, light strawberry cream cheese on the side, 40 timbits (which they choose one by one), and what kind of donuts and muffins do you have?

THEN they do the fumble for change routine!!

oh - and can you hurry it up, I'm late for my train.......

and this is one of the reasons I *never* go through the drive through (unless it's after hours where you can't actually go into the Timmie's)....Several times I've run in to the shop to get the coffees we require, and when I come out, the same SUV that was fifth in line in the drive through is still fifth in line, or perhaps up to fourth. It's not faster.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

If we're complaining about people in the grocery store, how about people who stop in the middle of aisles with complete disregard for anyone around them.  They take up the whole flippin' aisle so nobody can get by and are completely oblivious.

watch how fast they can move when you move their cart out of the way 

 

[Stronger Than All]

The Tim Hortons drive through is ridiculous in the morning.  There is no way I'd sit through that line-up and be late for work for a coffee when we have 5 different types of coffee in our office for free to choose from.

 

[Darryl]

I hate everyone..................... I figured that was where we are headed in this thread so why not jump to the end

 

[Sucker Punch]

The Tim Hortons drive through is ridiculous in the morning.  There is no way I'd sit through that line-up and be late for work for a coffee when we have 5 different types of coffee in our office for free to choose from.

I just don't get the national fascination with Tim Horton's.  Why wait in line for 20 minutes for bad coffee when you can make better coffee at home in half the time for a fraction of the price?

 

[Sudafederov]

The Tim Hortons drive through is ridiculous in the morning.  There is no way I'd sit through that line-up and be late for work for a coffee when we have 5 different types of coffee in our office for free to choose from.

I'll be right over. Do you have drive thru?

 

[lamajama]

Is it only me who gets behind idiots who have never used an ATM machine?

- Bend close to the ATM (about 6" away from the screen)
- flip their ATM card over and back about 3-4 times until they *perhaps*
get it right
- bend over again to read the instructions
- enter their code thusly - #, pause, pause,#, pause, pause, #, pause, pause, pause,#
- bend over again to read the instructions
- enter their option thusly - pause, pause,#
- look around for the deposit envelope, which are scattered on the ground around the machine
- stuff the envelope, seal it and  flip the envelope over and back about 3-4 times until they *perhaps* get it right
- repeat to take out money

GD IT!

 

[bustaheims]

I just don't get the national fascination with Tim Horton's.  Why wait in line for 20 minutes for bad coffee when you can make better coffee at home in half the time for a fraction of the price?

Tim Horton's is all about the baked goods. At least, that's the only reason I ever go there. Oh, and the Iced Capps. Like you said, just about everything else on the menu, you can make better at home for a fraction of the cost.

 

[L K]

I just don't get the national fascination with Tim Horton's.  Why wait in line for 20 minutes for bad coffee when you can make better coffee at home in half the time for a fraction of the price?

Tim Horton's is all about the baked goods. At least, that's the only reason I ever go there. Oh, and the Iced Capps. Like you said, just about everything else on the menu, you can make better at home for a fraction of the cost.

If by baked you mean reheated, Frozen product, then yes, it is baked.  For a brief period of time I actually made the stuff, when you would get up in the middle of the night, go to the store and do the bake.  Go home, and come back if more was needed around 11AM and work about 4-5 hours and get paid for a full shift.  Now it all goes in an easy bake oven.

 

[bustaheims]

If by baked you mean reheated, Frozen product, then yes, it is baked.  For a brief period of time I actually made the stuff, when you would get up in the middle of the night, go to the store and do the bake.  Go home, and come back if more was needed around 11AM and work about 4-5 hours and get paid for a full shift.  Now it all goes in an easy bake oven.

Well, somewhere along the line, they were baked by someone, otherwise they wouldn't be there at all.

 

[Kessel Run]

If by baked you mean reheated, Frozen product, then yes, it is baked.  For a brief period of time I actually made the stuff, when you would get up in the middle of the night, go to the store and do the bake.  Go home, and come back if more was needed around 11AM and work about 4-5 hours and get paid for a full shift.  Now it all goes in an easy bake oven.

Well, somewhere along the line, they were baked by someone, otherwise they wouldn't be there at all.

Baked and then flash-frozen.