Yeah fuck that noise! You’re supposed to wait until they accidentally scan the next persons items and then make them get a manager to make the correction like God intended!
Or you can just avoid that and use the divider so the cashier knows when they’re done with your items…
Stupid cashiers… I always put those separators on the belt, but they always stop me from buying one.
They’re complimentary. Pocket it and walk out.
“Huhuh you use a thing that makes social interactions in an often stressful and tiring situation a bit easier. You weirdo.”
(…?)
I mean if the line is busy and theres people waiting behind you, the stick is awesome. But then ive also had times where the clerk is checking out the last few items of the person in line when i walk up, theres no one behind me, a big empty space on the conveyor belt, and when i start placing my items at rhe end of the belt clearly separated by the big empty space, the grandma in front of me passive aggressively slaps down the stick. Like wtf im not trying to sneak my shit in with your order, its pretty obvious whose is whose.
Uh, I do this but it’s not to protect my thing or some shit, it’s to provide more space to the other person, I’m trying to be nice.
Yeah like the other commenter, I do this so you can use the whole belt and don’t have to awkwardly shove things onto the end.
Is that a white thing? I do love it, but I don’t know if it has anything to do with my race. It makes it easier for the cashier to tell when one person’s groceries end without having to pay attention to who is putting what on the belt.
I put one down behind my items just yesterday, and the Black woman behind me thanked me for doing so. So there’s a data point.
3 data points so far, we’ve practically completed a study!
I haven’t lived in a predominantly-white area in over 20 years and I have never been in a situation where someone should have used a divider and didn’t…so I have hundreds of data points to back yours up
No, it’s not. Just people making stupid shit for online acceptance.
In my country the cashiers will place the divider beforehand if you forget to do it and while the current customer is paying… So yes, the divider is for the cashier not for the customers.
I don’t get it. I don’t want to stand in line longer waiting while the cashier unscans my items from the person ahead’s order or unscans the next persons items from my order. They also often fuck it up anyway but still
Someone will try to make everything about race.
What? As an Asian American I and my family love that damn stick.
Don’t be lumping my flavorful ingredients with some white guys bland crap at the Chinese grocery store.
But seriously everyone should use that thing because it makes the cashier’s job easier, faster, and smoother for everyone.
Do people not use it?
“You ever notice how _____ people do [insert common, innocuous, rational behavior]…”
Yeah, this is trolling.
Only white people use them? I moved from the PNW down south and I can say they get used much less down here. Haven’t paid attention to race though
I don’t want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries
The stick is a universal if you have a cart of groceries, we all need the stick in those times to guide us. The thing that gets me is when I put a hand basket on the belt and the person in front of me gives me the stink eye and slaps the stick between their loose groceries and my contained and obviously separate basket of groceries like I was trying to trick them to pay for my stuff. It’s not just white or old people, though, being a douche is a human quality, not a racial or generational thing.
I always empty my basket onto the conveyor. Seems rude of me to assume the cashier should reach over and into a basket just to ring up my goods. Do you also make them unload your buggy when you use those?
What was the response you were hoping to get from this?
Just trying to teach children how to be adults. You can lead a horse to water and all.
Don’t break an arm jerking yourself off.
And bathrooms
The only reason we have sex based bathrooms is because the women’s bathrooms used to say colored on them and we never got the building codes changed.
Thats not true. The history of segerated bathrooms are worse than that… during the Victorian era, public bathrooms were men only. Women were not expected to travel from their home, or carry piss pots with them. Women had to fight for their right to have access to facilities. Also employers used the excuse of lack of women facilities to not hire women. The reason segerated bathrooms exist in building codes are because of decades of women fighting for their rights…
Dont pin it on racism on good old fashion sexism.
Couldn’t possibly help with preventing sexual harassment either.
Edit: people seem to be interpreting my comment as transphobic, it’s not so calm your tits please.
You know what would help a lot more?
Having actual walls and doors for the toilets and not pathetic incomplete partitions with gaps large enough you can accidentally see who’s shitting.
Yes you’re probably right on that account.
The only sexual harassment that I hear about in restrooms are either trans people being harassed or cisgender people being accused of being trans. Both of these problems go away when you have desegregated restrooms.
Unfortunately I’m not so confident those problems would disappear, conservatives have a tendency to only follow the laws they like.
Sure, but they’re more likely to harass you if the law is on their side. If we only made laws that everybody would follow, then there would be no laws.
You aren’t a victim when someone you don’t like uses the bathroom
Grass is green.
Yeah man, because it’s definitely the trans kid doing the pee-pee dance and not the officer snapping coochie picks for “safety” we should be worrying about.
When did I say anything about transgender people?
This is no stick. This is a KUNDENDIFFERENZIERUNGSMODUL
No it’s obviously a WARENTRENNER
Always struck me as a city thing, not a white people thing.
Maybe things have changed, but in the small town where I grew up, people generally wouldn’t bother.
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there would usually be a gap delineating one persons items from the other’s anyways
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the person who was professionally scanning our groceries 100% had the expertise to see the gap and comprehend its meaning
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If (I never ever saw it happen, ever) they had grabbed something, someone would have noticed, said “whoops, that’s not mine”. Nobody would think someone was trying a scam.
I feel like this is an amazing measure of someone’s general level of anxiety. Or maybe a measure of how little credit they give the person scanning groceries? Both?
It’s a measure of how often some asshole that doesn’t leave a gap between their groceries and the previous appear on the store.
Seems to me that it’s about how present the cashier is. I’ve made sure to leave a huge gap and they still paid so little attention they were confused about whose stuff was whose.
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My brother used to say that if you had enough of those dividers you could solve every property dispute because nobody violates that line.
Ive had cashiers blatantly ignore it and scan items for the wrong person many times now…
…I still use the stick, but also make sure theres plenty of space.
In Arkansas you’re now allowed to shoot at the feet of cashiers who sass you, so they keep tabs on it
