Foreign Perspectives

We’ve a little supermarket just beside us which we pop into quite often.

Now, you’d think that if you’ve only one item to get then it would take less time to get it than it would when you’ve a whole trolley to get. Except that it never works out like that.

Sure, you might have people in front of you but even if you remove that factor it still takes almost as long to get one item as it does to get most of a trolley load. Today for instance, I was just behind one old guy who’d maybe a half dozen items yet it took nearly 10 minutes to process those as he ran off to get something else while he was waiting then asked the checkout operator to get something for him which took her ages and, of course, he had to hunt for his money when she finally got through all the items.

If I’d been in the longer queue, I’d have been away quicker!