Unexpected item in the bagging area ∞
It was my bag!
I had to use the silly bleepy so called self service checkout at the big blue and red supermarket tonight, as they had only one real checkout open, and it had a huge queue. First of all, it complained at me for putting my rucksack in the bagging area. So the operator had to come over and explain that I should place the stuff I had just bought on the shelf, then wait a moment for the computer to catch up, them pick them up and put them in my rucksack.
Then I scanned my bottle of Jura, and it bleeped at me again. The spotty teenager came over, typed in his user and PIN in front of me (3002 then 5678), took my bottle of whisky to the front and removed the security tag, and brought it back. If I am old enough to be having trouble with the computerised checkout, I must be old enough to buy alcohol!
I finished scanning my items, placing them on the shelf, then in my bag, and clicked on pay by card. Put my card in the reader and it told me to remove it! Try again… same message. Call over spotty teenager, he takes my card and does the same thing. Fourth time lucky, it asks me for my PIN (which I am not going to disclose). I laid down my wallet to zip up my bag and the computer complained again, I had put it in the bagging area.
As I walked away from the checkout, I looked round to see that I would have been just as quick waiting in the queue for the real checkout.