Guess what. Some of us are on a tight budget. I always keep a tally of my total so I don't go over. Sometimes I do and that sucks. Its embarrassing enough to have put stuff back with out you judging me. Im sorry if my kids bother you. Go shop someplace else.
I bet you are the one guy who has to hold up the line and write a check. JERK.
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Hold up there, honey. I started this thread with tongue in cheek, pointing out crazy things people do at Walmart through my weird sense of humor. People know I'm like that, and of course things happen.
That's why I always carry my wallet in my pocket at the register. Some folks just need a few dollars, and I've got it. I've been at Walmart for 8 years, and I know who's struggling and who isn't.
If you came through my line, and I see you're struggling (kids or no kids), I'll get my debit card or cash or whatever you need and pay the difference if it's under $30 and you've paid the majority of it. This serves four purposes: You get the food you and your family need, it saves you the embarrassment of taking items off, you might become a regular customer, and we don't have to put it back. And no, I don't always get paid back, and usually I refuse it anyway.
Craig meant EXTREMES, Farmer. You're not the type to run up a $400 grocery bill, run $150 short, then look at the others in line and yell, "Well? Ain't nobody gonna help me?" That's just arrogance and entitlement rearing its ugly head.
I'm on a tight budget, too, Farmer. I recently had a brain clot and although insurance helps, it doesn't pay for everything. I understand budgets.
And I do apologize if you thought my letter was aimed at you. That was never its intent, nor was it my intent.
Surely you've seen some crazy things happen in a store too, right?
And you were referring to the check writer as a jerk and not Craig. I got that. At least I hope that was the intent.
Really? I'm sure you fill two carts full of stuff totaling over $1000.00 and only have $600.00. Then you hold up the line, while letting your 5 or 6 kids run around, for 20 minutes, passing random items back to the cashier to deduct until you get down to what you can actually pay for. I'm not talking about a few dollars short. Hell, I've even paid for items for folks when that has happened. To add insult to injury, the money they were spending came from taxpayers. When we go to the grocery, we pay with a debit card drawn on our bank account, with money we earn. I never go to buy anything unless I have the money to pay for it. I also don't get in express lanes with more than the allotted number of items, nor do I use coupons in these lanes.
So if that is considered being a JERK, then that is me!
Craig, he meant the check writer was a jerk, not you.
I've seen all that you described and more. People do run short.
I have a funny story about running short one day. What a disaster! I went to our local Mom & Pop grocery to buy a $3 dog toy for a neighborhood kid with a new puppy, and a box of mac & cheese. The bill came to less than $5, and I opened my wallet and ... ***GASP***
I had swapped out wallets the day before. There was my license, AARP card, insurance cards, AAA card ... everything BUT my debit and credit cards. I was in the middle of switching wallets and hadn't gotten to that compartment yet when the phone rang and something else happened. I forgot I wasn't done!
Luckily a manager came by, and said, "Oh, let her have them. She gave $10 to a customer last month to help her out."
Wasn't that cool?
But no, I left the items, ran home, finished putting everything in the new wallet, then went back and paid for it. That was so embarrassing!
But there are definitely those extreme cases where it's just crazy. You were saying about food stamps -- on the other hand, it's sweet:
A young couple were struggling with a new baby, and they sold what they could and needed assistance. They were on food stamps for about 6 months, and one day she came through my line, used up the balance on her food stamps, paid the rest on her debit card, and handed her food stamp card to me.
"Can you recycle that or cut it up? My husband got a second job and we don't need it any more."
That look on her face lit up the entire store and made my week!