Or the dryer that plays a song, and you cant find the manual to get it to stop.

Sheezus.

It's not that it's hard to do.

The divider is completely unnecessary!

I'm not going out of my way to do anything. I'm just doing everything everyone else is, except using the divider, and somehow, magically, everything works out perfectly fine.

Just try it out. You'll see just how silly the whole procedure really is.

Get some food.

Get in line.

Wait a few seconds after the person's stuff in front of you moves toward the cashier.

Put your stuff on the conveyor belt.

Pay for your food.


What's so crazy about this?

My mother in law does this, and agree. I hate it because I subconsciously check the time on the microwave every time I walk into the kitchen, and when I see 0:06 our whatever it gives me a jolt.

United Way

United Way pisses me off but i feel like they totally should.

My local convienience store has a cashier that removes the dividers when he is working the register and forces everyone to play by aura's rules.

I would circumvent that cashier's circumvention by either getting a divider from another lane or not loading my stuff on the conveyor until the person in front of me was fully checked out

That seems like a different flavor of making things harder than they need to be

Smooth.

I'd threaten to call the police if he didn't put the dividers out.

The pronunciation of 'New Orleans'. When nicking a name, can't you even bother to pronounce it right?

New arlens

Nawlins

New orleens

New or lee ans

New Orlins

IOW, the custerfluck solution.

My point is the accent shouldn't have been dropped and it should be pronounced consistently with Orléans.

If USA#1 says that the way it is, then that's the way it is.

You are exactly the type of dumb ass with ****ty social skills that made someone "invent" the unnecessary divider to begin with.

Panda bears.

congrats. ITT you have spent 5 years worth of the time it takes to use the divider to explain what a waste of time it is..

spoilers and pics and tltr txt.... yet you still feel efficient?

This thread needs a divider.

This is the internet.

I don't apologize!


Jerks.

divider discussion is what this thread was made for, absolutely breathtaking stuff

Why the **** are you guys putting full stops (or periods for you yanks) at the end of your posts?

Ive just noticed this now

Please tell me this is some sort of autocorrect or predictive text thing and youre not actually typing it manually

Funny thing about needing dividers...
The owner of the company I work for apparently didn't believe in dividers either. We don't have dividers, or even have belts accessible to the customer at most locations.
At our stores the customer just pushes the cart up to the counter, and the cashier unloads + scans the items. The customer then walks to the opposite side of the counter and faces the cashier during the transaction. It looks like this:
================ v customer v ==========
================== COUNTER ===========
Line ==> Cart ==> ^ cashier/scanner ^ ==> belt ===> bagging area

In theory this should solve the problem of items getting mixed up with the wrong order right?
Wrong!
People are so incompetent that they often walk completely around the person whose order is being rung up, throw their stuff onto the moving belt (along with the other customer's stuff which is already there) and attempt to slide their credit card through the payment machine. Wtf.
Other tards will actually put their stuff in the cart that is being rung up, let the cashier scan all their **** along with the original order, and then not say anything until the first person is like " uhhh that's not my stuff".
So maybe we need dividers to separate the actual customers, not just their stuff.

*that diagram will be all distorted if your phone is in portrait mode. Yet another thing that irrationally pisses me off - posts lay out differently in the text box than in the actual thread