Women are best at everything, except...

Must be a joke to be had about being flat chested
POGS; You've thrown down a hard challenge and I need all the encouragement I can get.! The "postage stamp" was feeble, but that's all there is at the moment.
However, a corollary exists in that a woman could possibly feel uncomfortable if her partner's "man-boobs" are larger than hers! After years spent in gym. saunas this is not hard to imagine, especially amongst the Seniors!

Must be a joke to be had about being flat chested Lyndiloo.

Don't encourage Rufus.

P.S. Keeping your card in your bra ??? How uncomfortable would that be?

Rufus - let's face it, we're expert at most things!

Here's a thought. Don't pack your purchases into bags at the checkout! Put them back in the trolley as they come through, pay for them, then find a quiet place out of everyone else's way to pack the stuff into bags. You avoid having a packing-induced panic attack and you also don't hold up the queue. Not rocket science.

Rufus

My hubby likes to go shopping on his own because he always comes home with a 'free' bottle of whisky just because he bought a loaf of bread.

Never happens when he is with me? ?

Matthew Norman obviously hadn't met up with that other bane of check-out delays. Having finally retrieved the card from the depths of despair, it turns up in a purse containing about 20 other cards and so begins the game of finding one that still has sufficient credit to cover the impending transaction. Card after card goes into the machine until lo and behold "Approved" is bestowed! It's enough to drive a man to drink! It must be a measure of one's social standing to have more than one.!

you have a woman packing it for you! smile
Lindyloo; by going into an "un-calm" mode I can get more than one woman to take pity on a bumbling OAP; it's in their DNA! I'm happy to let them because after all, they are experts at packing.

totally inept in this area and leaves me to it.
Saetana; You're being taken for a fool! Of course, it's his cunning plan to avoid strenuous brain work; it's a common tactic used by over-worked bread winners!

I am surprised by that ( cards kept in bras
I don't know my bra size off-hand, but it wouldn't hide a postage stamp, or even a book of 10.

Oh do calm down, Rufus! I suspect that your card is ready because, a) you don't buy a lot of stuff, or b) you have a woman packing it for you!

Especially in winter

Biker I am surprised by that ( cards kept in bras ) I would have to rummage in several layers before coming into contact with my bra in a supermarket.?

When I shop at waitrose..in the foyer there are racks of scanners. I check in my shopping as i go along having scanned in my credit debit card after I have finished shopping I stick the scanner into the relevant checkout and checkout. DH collects his free coffee, I drive home and he has a relaxing rest reading his free paper. There are scanners at other supermarkets too, don't know about free coffee and papers though.

My son and I have had many discussion on 'female equality' - we are both in favour of course but when he was young, saw it in a very different light to me.

If we do the same jobs, we are entitled to the same pay - goes without saying but what women wanted and still want is equal respect and equal choice.

This is still a patriarchal society. Men assume authority, are given more authority even when far more capable, efficient women are available....and often disregarded.

We've come a long way since Victorian times but we still haven't quite gotten round the arrogance which assumes men are somehow entitled to more respect than women.

I am a checkout operator....I have to remain neutral so cannot comment lol.

But! a lot of ladies keep their card in their bra ..lol the speed they whip it out n back in is amazing its in/out in the blink of an eye!

We walked to a nearby town, with the intention of getting the bus home. We live in London so no cash, only passes on the buses. Get to the home going bus stop. DH has no pass. I get on the bus and he has to walk. He only forgot his pass the once! ?

I have just tried the self scan and as ever something refused to scan so the assistant had to come over which made me feel a twit. It turned out to be something wrong with the barcode but the process was not quick.

Use self scan for small shops where it will all go into one bag but the platform isn't really big enough for a large number of items.
At the tills women are usually quicker at scanning and I can pack as fast as they scan, not everybody can. It is mainly women that are slower packing but then most women do the shopping

Rufus I don't know if others have said but it's nothing to do with pockets but all to do with the fact that most women do the supermarket shop ON THEIR OWN!! So we're trying to unload a full trolley in the order we want to pack our bags AND pack the bags. When the cashier tells us the price we're stills struggling because she/he has whizzed things through the scanner faster than we can pack. THEN there is the issue of finding the purse, we know it's coming but we're just trying to do 3 things at once (a common female skill!) and unfortunately don't have 3 sets of hands!!

this is why I welcome the 'do it yourself' check out - I know a lot of others don't - or better still the 'scan it as you go' system that Waitrose, and now Sainsbury's, have. I can pack my bags as I go, in the order I want and just scan a code to pay. Yes, I miss the human interaction but for convenience it can't be beaten!

Crossed posts Yve1 still enjoy living here though.

I get a little peeved when the person in front gets a pile of vouchers out with no idea whether they’ve bought the items required. The poor checkout operator has to scan them all to see if any are valid.
My DH hates supermarket petrol stations as many customers have the cheek to purchase items along with their petrol! Never ceases to come back moaning about the inconvenience of having to wait. ( wouldn’t dream of using pay at pump though)

My husband is more than happy to go to the supermarket with me - however its me who loads the conveyor belt and packs the bags because, with rare exceptions, men cannot pack properly! I pack all my chilled stuff together, freezer stuff together, etc etc. I too hate the fact that women either have no pockets or really small ones. I solved that problem by buying a men's bomber jacket and with a small(ish) shoulder bag in the warmer months. My husband is well aware he is totally inept in this area and leaves me to it - he would never go to a self-service till on his own, as generally he needs to ask the nearest woman for assistance

I always get in a fluster; I'm usually still trying to pack my shopping when the next person is waiting to be scanned.
Where do people put their purse or card whilst they're packing?

I have to say that I get cross at the people that don't have their payment ready. I get my card ready while standing in the queue before they start scanning my shopping. Nearly lost it at the co-op few weeks back. It's years since I've shopped there and know I know why. The cashier was sooooo slow and was carrying on a conversation with the customer and the cashier on the till behind her ignoring the fact her queue was getting longer by the minute. Whilst I don't mind a quick exchange while scanning my items if they can't scan and chat I would rather they scan. Aldi staff can chat, scan and clear a trolley full in no time at all, I love Aldi. I think it's as I get older I have less life life left to waste standing around waiting for folks to find their money/cards etc.

I am amazed the misandry hit squad have not been alerted and are charging to the rescue ??