But I just saw this happen.
If you are an able-bodied human at the check out line at the grocery store and you stand there while the elderly cashier bags your $400 worth of groceries for you with no help, you’re a piece of shit.
Not only are you not even attempting to make this human’s day any easier, YOU’RE HOLDING UP THE FUCKING LINE, MOVE IT!
Your grocery store should switch to a single queue dispatching to all registers, instead of one queue per register. Queueing theory and human psychology predict that this will reduce the likelihood of customers having heart attacks over another customer’s slowness.
That’s how it works. It’s doesn’t matter once you have your groceries unloaded onto a conveyor.
In the examples I’m thinking of – like the Trader Joe’s in my city, or the military commissaries I saw as a child – you don’t get assigned to a register until that register is free; so you’re never in a position to get upset over a specific other customer’s needs.
Ok. This was a Kroger. And honestly I’m just annoyed that this person just stood there doing nothing while the cashier fumbled his way through bagging groceries. It’s incredibly easy to just help.
Hmm. I can’t tell at a glance whether a person has bad arthritis, peripheral neuropathy, hand spasms, or some other reason not to do the things that I would do with my hands. Just because something would be easy for me doesn’t mean that I can safely assume it’s easy for that other person.
I mean… they carried the bags out of the store by themselves.