Supermarket Self-Checkouts
As with computers, it seems when you put most people in front of a self checkout till they lose about 80 IQ points. I've seen people do all manner of inexplicable things at these tills, but the best has to be the time a quite young woman (so no 'senile' excuse) was, for a good minute or so, trying to scan a lettuce.
(bobming, Thu 27 Dec 2007, 17:07, 4 replies)

Being reasonably adept at computers.
I still get frustrated by those bastards. What's the point of making a machine that's supposed to negate having to talk to a screeching chimp behind a till; only to have the machine demand every single time that it gets checked by a member of staff?
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 27 Dec 2007, 18:35, closed)

I saw something similar
with a couple trying to scan a stripy aubergine. Despite the stripes, it didn't work.
(BlackArmadillo Avoided writing that article on, Thu 27 Dec 2007, 20:27, closed)

It is my plan
to copy the UPC barcode from a can onto the side of my car, so that when I pass by a police car checking speed with a laser it tells them "Green Giant Peas- $0.89".
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 27 Dec 2007, 20:51, closed)

That woman always seems to be in front of me...
Working in a shop myself, I find them dead easy to use (although frustratingly slow), but I always end up stuck behind somebody who hasn't quite realised that it's the black and white stripes they need to scan, so spend a few minutes waving the ingredients list over the scanner.

I suggested to somebody in our local Tesco that they should amend the signs to read "10 items or fewer; Minimum IQ: 100" She had no sense of humour.
(moogal has eggs, Fri 28 Dec 2007, 4:40, closed)