ItвЂ™s not because IвЂ™m super smart, or that I have the legendary Type A personality. Now I am one of those people who starts planning their exit the moment they set foot inside the door of the supermarket.

(Sure, go ahead and snicker, you know you like hearing that beep that lets you know your item has been properly scanned.)Д«ut I digress, what I really want to talk about, is not the self checkout counter itself, but rather the people who decide to avail themselves of the benefits of that facility. I am drawn to the sense of power you feel from scanning your own tomatoes. Not for me the talkative cashier behind the counter, or even worse the not so talkative one who hates her job. As long as there is self checkout, I will use it. I will confess that I am a self checkout junkie. Basically self checkout is the supermarketвЂ™s way of hiring literally thousands of employees without having to pay a red cent, no insurance no nothing, but thatвЂ™s another story. Now who could find anything bad to say about a system whose sole purpose is to get you out of a busy supermarket as quickly as possible (ok, so maybe thatвЂ™s not the sole purposeвЂ¦.you do have the whole if we can get shoppers to pack their own stuff, while ringing up their own purchases, then maybe we could save some money by hiring less cashiers thing). I donвЂ™t usually mind though because then I get to use that great timesaver, the epitome of efficiencyвЂ¦. So my wife sends me to the supermarket the other day (one of the things wives do very well by the way).

Clean up on isle 5