Originally Posted by bbclassics:
“On the theme of supermarkets, people who fill their trolleys with items and use the self scan tils. Pretty sure they're for people with baskets as a quick way to shop, that's why they have the shelf at the til for the basket.
At the self scan area had this guy in front of me who had a trolley full of beer bottles who held up the queue. And I was only carrying 2 items, he didn't let me go in front of him.
If it were the other way around I'd have let him go in front of me, but then I wouldn't be so stupid as to take a full trolley into the basket/self scan section.
Harrumph.”
Just imagine if we had the ability to travel back in time.
We go back to a medieval village, capture the village idiot and bring him back to the present. We lock him in a basement and play him incessant death metal music night and day so he gets no sleep and every three hours we send someone in to beat him over the head and neck with a big stick.
After four weeks of this treatment we take him to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and hand him a fourth generation photocopy of the instructions for the facility in Swedish and give him five minutes to find the Higgs Boson.
He would still be less confused by the situation in front of him than the average person trying to buy something on a self-service checkout.