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[–] 46 points 5 months ago (10 children)

A friend of mine made a game of this. At the grocery store, she labels people with "Oh Shit I Have To Pay?" Syndrome.

Her and her daughter text each other every time they encounter a person who somehow arrives at a cashier completely unprepared, who somehow managed to stand in line for several minutes and didn't realize that they had to actually do something when they reached the front of the line.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Zomg, I had this issue at an event the other day.

    It's a baseball game with pizza food trucks. When you arrive you are given 10 tickets which effectively work like cash.

    Go to the food truck, order and give tickets. Easy.

    There are only two trucks because some had to back out. Lines are long, I'm in line for about 45 minutes, but I'm watching a baseball game nearby so no big deal. Truck I'm at has a giant sign "pepperoni or cheese 4 tickets".

    By the time the people just in front of me get to the order taker I hear the conversation

    Lady: "I don't know how many tickets I have, how much pizza I can order, but I want 16 pieces of cheese".

    Order taker: "you have 40 tickets"

    Lady: "what does that mean?"

    45 minutes in line specifically for food, she doesn't read the sign, count her tickets, prepare a plan, nothing.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Lol that's why the line was so long in the first place. Probably half the people in that line did the same thing.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Which is exactly true. I met up with the truck owner as he has a brick and mortar near my library. He said like 50% of people had no idea what to do when they got there.

    Dude said he made a killing though, he was there like 4 hours and made 1400 bucks.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    This is so many people. It's astounding. So many people just seem completely overwhelmed at all times no matter where they are or what they're doing and cannot simply prepare for what comes next. I suspect a large part of it is they're just distracted on their phone like zombies.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Omg, I'm a bus driver and this is my number one pet peeve.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    This just reminded me of a funny story about a North Korean refuge who had escaped to South Korea. She was trying to figure out how buses worked and would stare at people getting on the bus to figure out how they paid.

    She said that she noticed everyone would just kind of bump there butt on a sensor when they got on. Not knowing that something like contactless payment existed, she assumed that it must have just been some weird cultural thing that she didn't fully understand.

    So she worked up the courage to board a bus and just bumped her butt against the sensor. Obviously it didn't do anything and the bus driver must have thought she was crazy.

    Edit: Found the video! https://youtube.com/shorts/L8DeAqXzOtk

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I am in my 40's and I have lupis caused arthritis. I'm not taking my card out of my wallet until I'm ready to swipe it, because I can barely fucking hold it. Some people have ADHD and get distracted. You never know what a person is struggling with. Your friend and her daughter sound like absolutely lovely people /s.

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