I just lost 5 bucks at Safeway. At first, I thought I might have thrown it away with the receipt by accident. but I went back and rummaged through the garbage can (nothing I haven’t done before) and didn’t find anything. I believe the cashier didn’t even give me the five bucks change.

All this was brought about by the fact that I didn’t like the way the people were lining up crookedly and ambiguously for the self-checkout stands, so I went to a cashier checkout (which I never use anymore). It ended up taking way longer to buy my loaf of bread AND caused me to lose 5 bucks, PLUS the dollar I decided to donate to muscular dystrophy.

I usually never donate to that kind of thing, but this time I did donate a dollar because I was amused by the interaction between the cashier and the customers in front of me. she kept asking them the same question over and over. Since everyone said “no” to donating to muscular dystrophy, well, I just I had to say "yes".

The second customer mentioned that she asked a lot of questions, but that she did it with a happy voice. Then the cashier informed everyone in line that she has to sign a piece of paper every night before work saying she would ask those questions. “How are you this evening? Did you find everything okay?” Do you have a safeway card? Would you like to donate to Muscular Dystrophy charity? Do you need help to the car?”

So, moral of the story?  never use the cashier checkout lanes, just self-checkout.