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Nobrot Ex Member	It happens every time.... Mar 8^th, 2011 at 4:48pm	Print Post
	Why is the woman in front me at the check out ALWAYS a bloody forensic accountant ????


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hazelnut Ex Member	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #1 - Mar 8^th, 2011 at 5:20pm	Print Post
	Noooo Nobby you need to get behind the woman that is 3 quarters through her check out items and decides she has forgotten something, and just buggers of for 5 minutes to get what she wants, then fumbles trying to open the plastic bags and packs her stuff very slowly then pays in cash and has to grovel through her purse for every last centimo, still not having packed everything when the next persons stuff starts to come down the checkout, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


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cactus jack Global Moderator Offline If I agree with you, then we would both be wrong Posts: 928 Location: bitem Joined: Dec 17^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #2 - Mar 8^th, 2011 at 7:27pm	Print Post
	CHILL BABY CHILL

	Nostalgia is not what it used to be...
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briand6868 Full Member Offline Here, wishing I was there Posts: 207 Location: Coll de L'alba Joined: Mar 10^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #3 - Mar 8^th, 2011 at 8:05pm	Print Post
	Yes,yes,yes Hazelnut-- that absolutely drives me round the bend-but, what gets me even more is the woman,always a woman, who puts her stuff on the belt-to reserve her place as it were- then sends her brat off to complete her shopping,brat comes back with the wrong stuff then Mummy goes off on her search leaving me standing there !!!!!


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Nobrot Ex Member	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #4 - Mar 8^th, 2011 at 8:45pm	Print Post
	Or......there's the conversation,usually centered around the old dears life history.The fish is walking to the car and the Bio yohgurt is now penecillin.


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hazelnut Ex Member	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #5 - Mar 8^th, 2011 at 8:52pm	Print Post
	briand6868 wrote on Mar 8^th, 2011 at 8:05pm: Yes,yes,yes Hazelnut-- that absolutely drives me round the bend-but, what gets me even more is the woman,always a woman, who puts her stuff on the belt-to reserve her place as it were- then sends her brat off to complete her shopping,brat comes back with the wrong stuff then Mummy goes off on her search leaving me standing there !!!!! Glad its just not me then!! I have since pushed in front of people who leave their basket at the check out and then walk off to do more shopping, they look quite perturbed on their return, but Feck em I say, they are not in the village shop anymore!! Can you imagine the trauma if they introduced self check out aisles in Cataloonia!!


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ebrorob Ex Member	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #6 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 10:30am	Print Post
	Quote: briand6868 wrote on Mar 8^th, 2011 at 8:05pm: Yes,yes,yes Hazelnut-- that absolutely drives me round the bend-but, what gets me even more is the woman,always a woman, who puts her stuff on the belt-to reserve her place as it were- then sends her brat off to complete her shopping,brat comes back with the wrong stuff then Mummy goes off on her search leaving me standing there !!!!! [highlight]Glad its just not me then!! I have since pushed in front of people who leave their basket at the check out [/highlight]and then walk off to do more shopping, they look quite perturbed on their return, but Feck em I say, they are not in the village shop anymore!! Can you imagine the trauma if they introduced self check out aisles in Cataloonia!! I once queued behind an unmanned basket for 5 days before I realised they'd taken the old biddy off in an ambulance! We had similar experiences when first here in the Tivenys Spa shop - could take an hour to buy 300g of ham!


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Bigyin God Member Offline Onwards and Upwards !! Posts: 1283 Location: Santa Barbara Joined: Feb 19^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #7 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 5:45pm	Print Post
	Just buy 25g and you could be out in 5 mins.

	Where there's life there's hope !!
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briand6868 Full Member Offline Here, wishing I was there Posts: 207 Location: Coll de L'alba Joined: Mar 10^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #8 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 10:04pm	Print Post
	My local Lidl is the place for me,no fannying about, in-shop-pay-out great.Any dawdlling is dealt with by the checkout girls who loudly encourage people with only a couple of items to jump people who are still unloading full trollies. Leads me on to the next rant- in the queue behind a person with a full trolley who insists on waiting until its her turn to be dealt with,and checkout person is poised, to BEGIN to unload the trolley , ONE ITEM AT A TIME !!! Grrrrrrr.


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Bigyin God Member Offline Onwards and Upwards !! Posts: 1283 Location: Santa Barbara Joined: Feb 19^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #9 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 10:24pm	Print Post
	Have you not realised that patience is a virtue that you need to develop here ? It's part of the culture. It takes a while but makes for a smoother passage if you can master it.

	Where there's life there's hope !!
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hazelnut Ex Member	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #10 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 8:53am	Print Post
	Patient People get walked over, pushed in front of and left at T junctions for hours!! Watch the video its obviously a Latin thing about checkouts!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9Oio2QbLE&tracker=False And one for Nobby and Briand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrthNBcq5jc&tracker=False


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Nobrot Ex Member	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #11 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 8:59am	Print Post
	It's not just checkouts...everything takes so unnessessessessessarraly (soory about the speeling) long. Patience may be a virtue but thats why the country is 20 years behind the rest of Europe and on its knees.Clueless.


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cactus jack Global Moderator Offline If I agree with you, then we would both be wrong Posts: 928 Location: bitem Joined: Dec 17^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #12 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 9:13am	Print Post
	Quote: It's not just checkouts...everything takes so unnessessessessessarraly (soory about the speeling) long. Patience may be a virtue but thats why the country is 20 years behind the rest of Europe and on its knees.Clueless. And its why I love the place Unnecessarily or not, I had enough of everything having to be done in double quick time back in the UK. Here just take it easy, Bigyin is right Patience is a virtue, and high blood pressure makes you die younger. And I know how to spell 'unnecessarily' so there

	Nostalgia is not what it used to be...
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susanita Full Member Offline ¡Ole! Posts: 113 Location: L'Ametlla de Mar Joined: Aug 27^th, 2008	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #13 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 9:23am	Print Post
	I agree totally with Cactus Jack.� I've lived in Spain for almost 36 years and believe me it has come a very long way in this time, but thank goodness it is still behind other European countries in many ways... I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.� Just relax and enjoy.�


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fatphil Ex Member	Re: It happens every time.... Reply #14 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 12:10pm	Print Post
	Allthough some aspects of Cataloonya being 30 years behind the times can be amusing,dealing with officials is not. An example of this is when dealing with officials at the Adjuntament and none of their bills or information is available translated. It is if they want to make paying bills,taxes etc.more difficult ! The recent Census in the uk is available translated into 56 languages,allthough Cataloonyian is omitted.


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