Are People Getting Dumber?
Derek Hunter
I’ll be the first to admit that I am not the ideal customer. Actually, no, I am the ideal customer in that I want to get whatever transaction I am engaging in finished as quickly as possible. I pay, I go. Along the way, I say just enough to facilitate the completion of the transaction. While I am not unique, but I believe my approach is the best. Unfortunately, people are getting dumber and making this symbiotic relationship a freaking mess.
Can I just ask a basic question: Who the hell are these people who go to Costco or the grocery store to make friends with the cashiers? No offence to cashiers, I’ve been one, but they’re not that interesting. Yet, we have these people who, no matter how long the line is behind them, strike up a conversation with them, slowing everything down to a crawl. Then, in what makes me come close to breaking, they seem surprised, even shocked, that the transaction requires them to pay at the end of it.
As if that weren’t bad enough, when they fumble through their purse or pockets to find their card, they look at the swipe machine as if it was the first time they’ve ever seen one. They don’t know how to swipe or insert it, they pull it out too early and have to repeat everything, and the concept of a PIN is treated like a delicate boobytrap disarming that would confuse Indiana Jones. How do these people dress themselves?
Of course, much worse than all of that is the 2 percent of people who still insist on writing checks. Nothing against check writing, but you should not be surprised by it being an important part of the closing of your retail transaction.
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