fun with checkout-chicks

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So this evening i went to my local[ish] supermarket to buy some tampons. they looked kinda lonely in the basket so i also got a block of chocolate [the bigass King Size kind; it was on speshul] and THEN *cue soundbed of Peter Posa's 'The White Rabbit* i picked the lone teenage boy checkout-chick's aisle. oh the uncomfortable expression and eye-contact avoiding! best fun ever!

― petra jane, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ever done things at the supermarket just for kicks? regale me with accounts of guerilla grocery-shopping.

― petra jane, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was a check out chick for the better part of 5 years...apart from being stalked, the freakiest thing that happened was an old homeless guy who was a regular, coming though my register and asking me whether I thought freezing to death or crucifixion took longer - this was 8.45 on a satruday morning, i'd had two hours sleep ....

― Queen G, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

im going to start calling boys chicks too and see how long before I get in FITE

― Ron, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's something about being in a supermarket at 3am that makes me feel invincible

― bc, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

checkout chick is not gender-demoninational.

― Queen G, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha! i have many tales of guerilla grocery-shopping! much of this was when i still was a student, and it generally involved er lysergic assistance

in my local 24-hr supermarket they mist the vegetables with water at regular intervals. while misting, they play "singin' in the rain", which always cues horrid clockwork orange flashbacks. especially when you're in the supermarket at 4am and you're all alone...in the produce section...

― geeta, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know you all weren't picking gender fites i just had not heard that term before and thought it was funny

― Ron, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sara addresses everyone as Chix, and I haven't mentioned her (or seen her) for ages, so I'll hit submit now.

― Graham, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to find that checkout staff always insisted on wrapping up tampons or sanitary towels in some bag so that nobody could be distressed by accidentally seeing them, which would obviously be highly traumatic. They looked at me strangely when I insisted they did not require extra cover. (Uh, this was when I wasn't single - I don't just buy them to argue with checkout staff.)

I can't remember the last time I went into a supermarket and didn't buy chocolate. I can barely even imagine that...

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to work as a cashier in a supermarket. I don't really have any 'checkout chick' stories. In reality, the checkout chicks are probably checking out the nearly jail-bait baggers and are bored with your sorry ass. The day and evening shift was fairly hectic and sucked, but I actually loved the graveyard shift. There are, like, three people in the store, people's moods are different when they're buying chips at 2 AM or whatever. Also harried parents buying diapers or formula. It doesn't matter how much sleep you've had, or how bright the lights there's still this hazy feeling in the air that late at night. You're just standing at the register to this tinkling muzak, it's so absurd.

The managers were all assholes, except for the night manager, who probably sat in her office reading the whole time. My favorite night was when some customer's kid had opened a whoopie cushion and left it lying on the floor of the toy aisle. One of the cashiers picked it up, and we took turns playing it over the loudspeaker. Then we got some other point-of-purchase talking toy and played that one, too. The manager didn't give a shit.

― Kerry, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, and in high school we used to go into the supermarket and slashed some cereal boxes and wrote stuff on cans. I think we also moved things around, i.e., putting toys with the food and stuff. I'm not proud of the slashing, though. I've had some fun in supermarkets....

― Kerry, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend and I had a crush on this checkout chick in Sainsburys in Winbledon, and every saturday we'd go to the shop and buy frozen dairy produce of some variety. I think our 18-year-old selves found it highly amusing. Anyway, we'd get to the checkout and she'd look at us oddly but smile, and we'd give her one of whatever it is we were buying. I think I may have told this story before.

― Mark C at parents, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pray, where is this 'Winbledon'? And is she still there? And should I tell the Edward Wilson story again?

― Ally C, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the best thing about checkout chick boys is that when they ask you for ID for liquor they always apologise so verbosely when they discover you're 22. checkout chick girls though, they come at you with the attitude, even when you try to be nice and understanding and say "i know you're just doing you're job".

― di, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but petra, were you really, even slightly, uncomfortable for buying tampons? and you wouldn't have been if it's been a female??

hey does anyone else know um there was this suck new zealand documentary about blood that said all this stupid obvious stuff but there's a great thing in it: tessa laird got this old secondhand white dress and painted a cartoony splotch of bright red on the back of it and they filmed her walking down the street in it and the people nervously/ embarrassdly/ shocked-ly looking down at the red

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and di, i've noticed that there seems to be a tendency for males to be more apologetic when they find out my age too (though in my case i'm about seven years above the alcohol buying legal age!). i don't like this because when i've gotten inpatient/exasperated before (i think i'm more tolerant now, partly because i get i-d'ed more in dunedin - even though i'm older - so i got used to it, and partly because...er...i've just become nicer) they almost always say something along the lines of "you should be flattered" (at being interpreted as younger) but...oh i don't know.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but petra, were you really, even slightly, uncomfortable for buying tampons? and you wouldn't have been if it's been a female??

unless you count the screaming pain in my uterus, then no. they're only tampons. i derived nothing but sick twisted Bridget Jonesish amusement from said shopping experience and in making checkoutchickboy squirm, because he has a Y chromosome and doesn't have to spend one week in four as a crampy, hairy, greasy watermelon on legs.

on a related note, though, why do people seem to be so embarrased about buying condoms? pak n save keeps 'em in those discreet wee alcoves by the chewing gum so you can slip 'em into your groceries, but why the stigma? isn't it more sensical [sp?] to brandish your 12- pack of johnnies with a gleeful flourish as if to say "look, you spotty little no-hoper. i'm getting some and you're not"?

― petra jane, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you should be flattered

its invariably women who say this to me. i don't care about periods, i generally just assume other people don't. i have friends who won't take boys home when they're on the rag, and i don't understand it. if he doesn't like a bit of blood, he can go home. buying condoms is embarassing but only at the supermarket or worse yet flavoured ones from the 2-4. for some reason i find getting them from the chemist to be quite clinical. i think its cos when you get them on prescription, you're getting them in bulk and it's like getting the pill or something. but when you get them from the 2-4 in those small packets, you're obviously off for a quickie. its like i'd rather people didn't know when my sex life takes place.

― di, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Condoms on prescription??? Can you get prescriptions for condoms? Why would you get a prescription for condoms if you can just get them over the counter?

― Penny Lane, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

because you can get a bulk amount cheaply.

― rainy, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Prescribed by your sex therapist

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I bought condoms in bulk they'd end up going past their use by date before they got used. There's nothing more depressing. Packs of six is my limit at the moment.

― Penny Lane, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but prescription condo,s still work out sheaper, whether you use them or not.

― di, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry p-j, i misinterpretted the uncomfortableness as being yours.
that was rude and stupid of me.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ehh, no probs. do you still want Girls' Annuals? found some more @ Habitat fer Humanity shop today.

― petra jane, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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