How gross, a cashier’s grubby fingers all over the cap of a soda bottle where I put my mouth to drink it!
Even if I pour the contents into a glass, the contents have to pass the area where the stranger had his dirty fingers. The fluid actually won’t contact where the fingers were, but that’s not the gist of this article.
The gist is that nearly every time I ever requested to the cashier to handle my soda bottle “at the middle,” the lame brain instead plucked it off the conveyor at the cap!
How dead in the head are these people?
How much simpler can a request be then “Can you handle the bottle in the middle and not the cap part”? I use simple words. I don’t know how much simpler I could phrase the request.
Invariably, I’d say 90 percent of the time, the cashier (male or female, gas station or supermarket) would grab the bottle at the cap. My stomach turned.
What part of “Handle the bottle at the middle” is so difficult to comprehend?
This same nonsense occurred when I used to buy gallon milk jugs. These jugs have a handle. I’d say, “Please handle the milk by the handle.”
Instead, the moron would grab it at the cap! What the fudge!
Eventually, I eliminated this problem by swiping the bar code of the bottle before the cashier had a chance to grab the bottle.
I also did this with the milk. I then held onto the product so they wouldn’t get their hands on it. I bagged the milk, and if it was soda, I’d just hold onto it while the rest of the items were bagged.
I just don’t understand how such a simple request could go over the heads of one person after another. There is just no excuse for this stupidity.
I used to be a cashier at K-mart, so I know very well what this kind of job is like. I listened to the customers!
I eventually ceased soda consumption, but that’s not the solution, is it? The solution is for cashier’s to grow some brains and STOP handling bottled beverages by the caps!