irish consumers

you know what pisses me off???

when people wait in line to buy things in a shop, then wait till they get to the till to think about which of the things they've brought to the counter they're actually going to buy.

then put their purchases on the counter in instalments.. so that the cashier (me) who is halfway through sorting and scanning and detagging and folding the first instalment has to restart the whole process with a larger pile.

and then halfway through the sale, they tell the cashier (me) that they're also wanting to return some things, and pull out more wads of clothing and assorted receipts (most from other stores or purchases).

now the cashier (me) gets confused as to what's being returned and what's being purchased, because said cashier (me) has already detagged some of the purchases, and thus there's no way of telling the difference between them, especially when the customer is just exchanging sizes and can't remember themselves which they're bringing back and which they're taking.

once the cashier (me) has finally sorted the mess out (without any help whatsoever from the stupid (and a lot of them actually are stupid) (not so much intrinsically not as smart as the average bear, as just not clever enough to do things in a logical manner) (in all things, not just in shopping) consumer) and put the sale through, taken payment, given a receipt, bagged the items.... the consumer asks for a gift receipt.

which i can obviously whip out of my ass AFTER a sale has been completed.