Kathleen wrote:

> The absolute wort place is the local Joann's fabric store. They are
> perpetually understaffed, and the customers there are some
> checkwritin' women.

I would blow my top if I had to shop there often. It's like
torture. All those fiddly little purchases taking forever to
ring up and then the total is like $12 and out comes the
checkbook! OMG. I hardly go there as I don't sew very
often, so it's no big deal, I just chill.

Don't anyone get upset, I don't begrudge the woman a job,
I promise, but the local store's checkout woman is legally
blind. This does not make things go any faster.

> And then the checkbook has to exhumed from its super secret location
> within the megapurse. And then there's the search for something to
> write with. And producing the ID and the credit card (if you've got a
> credit or debit card, for god's sake, why not use it?). And the
> filling out of the check register - they don't hold with those
> newfangled carbon copy checks...

Twice last week I was behind people who wrote checks at the
supermarket. God forbid someone does something wrong, it
takes forever to process. One transaction took so long I
resumed shopping and made it back and she was still there!
Glad I didn't have ice cream. Between the torturous check
writing scenario you describe and the check verfication process,
you wish they'd just say they don't take checks like a lot of
stores do.

I know, the horror, much screaming ensues. (laugh)

nancy