Post #60695 by johntiki on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 5:57 PM

On 2003-11-17 20:43, tikifish wrote:
Did you ever notice, or is it just a Toronto thing, that every time I am in a Value Village or Goodwill, there is no one in the store, but the line up at the cash is 8 deep? What is going on there?

I've noticed the same thing here in Maryland! I often stop by the Goodwill on the way to work with only minutes to spare and it never fails that the later I am the longer the line! On days like that I kind of hope that I don't find anything worth buying so I don't have to wait forever! And whenever you have a single item in your hands you always have to wait behind the smelly woman with a cart full of crap, all of which needs to be wrapped individually or is missing the black magic marker price on the bottom. I got so pissed on one such occassion when I had a single pilsner glass in my hand and I got into one of those races to the register...where you hope to beat the person with the bulging cart...as you can imagine she beat me and in the time it took the stinky lady and the idiot goth chick behind the counter to start unloading the shopping cart I could have paid my $.53 and been on my way. I tried desperately to make eye contact with the girl behind the counter hoping she would move me ahead and jingled the change in my hand to get her attention. In the meantime the lady starts pulling out something without a price on it, "how much is this? It don't got no price on it?" As the clerk turns to see if anyone can find a price for the plastic dinnerware she makes eye contact with me, I partially raise the glass indicating 'let me go first and I'll be out of your hair.' The girl ignores me and goes back to helping the friggin
"bag lady." I immediately raised the glass a little bit higher and smashed it on the floor. "Oops," I said and walked out.