sf wrote on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:05:33 -0700:

>> That's a really excellent idea. You do a service to your
>> community.

> I must live in a community that knows how to count.

> The *only* time I see people with more than the x limit in a
> line is because there was NO LINE in line when they got there.
> Around here, checkers in the limited lines take... in fact
> they *tell* people to come over to their check stand if they
> don't have any customers who fit the sign limit (my god,
> they're allowed to *think*). If someone who fits the sign's
> criteria comes up after they've invited another customer over,
> that person has to wait until the transaction is finished.

Yes, I've been invited into a fast lane by a cashier who had no
customers and then had someone come along later and audibly count my
number of items :-)

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not