Foiled...and it wasn't even intentional
Ambling around my local bloated corporate giant emporium just after Christmas - I espy a special, nay half price offer on bubbly,plus buy a case discount etc etc. I think to myself "that's the party juice sorted for a bit" and load up the trolley.

Over I trundle to the manned checkout, where the cute but dim till monkey scans the code on the outside of the box...beep... £not a lot flashed up: cue World's Most Nonchalant Face as my brain does a little somersault and runs round in circles waving it's arms going "FREE BOOZE" and "WAHEY" and so forth.

And then my dear lady wife brings herself to the very edge of immediate painful and bloody death by piping up "hang on, that's wrong, you've only charged us for one bottle".

Cue Innocent Face: "really, sorry, wasn't watching, good job you noticed (clenches teeth) dear"

Okay, it was still a good deal, but I nearly lifted loads of fizzy knicker-loosening juice for bugger all with no criminal intent.

Sigh.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:02, 7 replies)

Had a similar experience
with Tequila a few years back, only we got away with a crate for the price of a bottle. Thank you trainee checkout girl!
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:06, closed)

I'm a mug
Having reformed after my various thieving exploits as a youth, I will now tell the checkout monkey if they undercharge me for stuff. If only because I now know from first-hand experience what a tedious, soul-destroying job it can be and how much trouble you can get into when the numbers don't add up.

Unless the monkey pisses me off somehow, in which case it's just desserts, really.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:17, closed)

Not I,
but my girlfriend had a similar 'checkout idiot' in Tesco. We had been to see Star Wars Episode III, and with the ticket came an offer saying 'See the film, get 15% off the original trilogy box set'. My girlfriend decides she wants the box, so goes to Tesco, picks up the box and goes to the checkout. Potato-faced lackey picks up box, and semi-drooling, gawks at the voucher. He scans the box, scans the voucher then, still drooling, scans the voucher again. Usually, the jiggery-pokery that runs the tills would realise that it's been scanned twice, and only count it once. Not this voucher, oh no. So for no effort, and a bit of dumbness from the till jockey, my girlfriend got 30% off of her box. Wait a second, that sounded a bit dirty...
(Lythium deals in lead, my friend., Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:22, closed)

Have a click
for "fizzy knicker-loosening juice"
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:30, closed)

^^^^
second to that- great quote!


I was the fortunate man who also had a similar events happen to him in Homebase.

Senor Tillington scanned the conservatory furniture chair & not the rest of the set - so we obtained 6 chairs, a full size table for £34.99. DING DING DING!
( the dalai farmer always likes tea, but especially on, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:42, closed)

Divorce her
And divorce her hard.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 13:42, closed)

Monkey trouble and monkey no trouble
The monkey in the FREE BOOZE story wouldn't have had any problems even if your missus hadn't owned up - although the monkey in the DVD discount story would have been in bother.

[if the money + vouchers + cards in the till and the records on the till match, then all is fine. So if you accept over-change or over-cashback, you're a bastard; if you accept unscanned goodies then you're OK...]
(stalinism, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 17:30, closed)