15 Items or LESS!
I may be wrong, but I always believed that the great man/woman of genius who invented the 10/15/20 items or less lane at the supermarket was a person who was extremely considerate and knew how to respect people's time. "Why have only 2 items and be made to stand behind someone with two carts full of things?" he/she must have asked himself/herself one day. And, thus, the special lane was invented. Therefore, as people who benefit from this great invention, we should respect it at all cost. Unfortunately, the inventor didn't place any rules next to the lane because a simple "15 items or less" sign should be easily understood, but my experience has proved that there are some among us in desperate need of more detailed explanations. So, I have come up with the following rules to assist those of us who are still a bit confused about what the "15 items or less" sign actually means. Please read and adhere:1. Before getting in the 10/15/20 items or less lane, COUNT the number of items you have in your cart, hand, and child's/children's hand/hands. If you have exactly OR less than the stated lane items, ONLY then are you allowed to proceed in this lane. If not, you must quickly move to a lane with no limitations posted.
2. All items are counted separately! 15 individual yogurts on do NOT equal 1 item. It's only one item if it is packaged as one. If you can't hold them all in one hand with one grip, it's NOT packaged!
3. Just because you place two dividers between your 45 items so they become sets of 3 does NOT mean you qualify for the 15 items or less lane!
4. If you enter the lane with 15 items and then realize that you forgot to pick up a couple of things and you proceed to continously go back to get these items while little Jimmy watches the basket, you NO LONGER qualify to be in the 15 items or less lane. You have now exceeded the required limit.
5. Stacked items do not count as 1. Just because the bread sits on top of the cans, the bread is still counted. That magazine you tossed on top of the bread, yeah, still counts as an item. It's not the 15 items that touch the belt, it is 15 items TOTAL. Everything SCANNED counts as 1.
6. Don't pop an attitude because the folks behind you are CLEARLY pissed that you have 109 items in your cart and the cashier, for reasons unbeknown to me, will continue to scan all of them. Guess what? They have earned the RIGHT to be pissed. Whether the cashier points it out to you or not, YOU ARE IN VIOLATION!!!
7. If you have managed to get the cashier to scan your 59 items in the 15 items or less lane, don't add insult to injury by striking up a conversation with the cashier so that he/she will scan slower in order to finish talking to you! Yeah, we all love the Redskins, but come back on the cashier's lunch break to talk about the details of the game, Mr. Violation.
I'm sure there are more rules, but I'm gonna stop here. I just wanted to get my point out there to the general public. Let's show that we appreciate and respect the 10/15/20 items or less lane, folks. PLEASE!
*This post has been inspired by many, but a special shout-out goes to the man in front of me at the Safeway this morning.
posted by Madeehah @ 12:18 PM
2 Comments:
oooh I've got one, but its kinda on the other side a bit...
If I have 14 items, dont look at me funny becuase Im in the express lane! Yes, I counted, and yes Im fine, thank you, and no you dont get to go ahead of me just because you ask, or just because you have only one item! my time is important too you know...next time walk a little faster and you'll BEAT me to the line, mmkay? lol
OMG! this is sooo annoying and so true. When I was a cashier and someone tried to pull that (ESPECIALLY if it was obvious, similar to said 109-item customer mentioned here) I would politely ask them to look at the sign and would ask them to move into another line. They weren't ever too happy but oh well!
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