A growing number of people are chatting on their cell phones during check-out at your typical grocery store or department store. Many people seem to think that their precious conversation ought to take precedence over communicating with the store cashier. Engaging the store clerk or cashier in conversation means bad things of course. Meeting the eyes of the store cashier might mean instant death or perhaps a sudden choking feeling may weaken the customer.
Two days ago I found myself behind a pretty young woman who was chatting away merrily on her cell phone. She had just placed her vegetables onto the counter, and then set down a bottle of wine. Her conversation went like this: "Oh my God...yes I will be there tonight. Jonathan is coming too. He will be there later because he is going out to dinner. How much? Oh here's a twenty."
I asked a cashier about these people who do not put down their cell phones at the counter. One older gentleman said: "Yes, at first I thought it was extremely rude. But after I slept on it, I just didn't give a fuck. Let them put down their perishables and I'll just get them the hell out of there as fast as I can. Paper. Plastic. It doesn't matter as long as they take their stupid conversation to the street and I don't have to hear it."
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