'You can't count to five': Grocery store Karen gets shut down whilst going through express checkout with too many items

Express checkouts exist purely to improve the flow of checkout by allowing a greater number of persons with a minimal amount of items to move quickly through the checkout process, freeing them from having to wait behind those with full carts… It's a pretty simple concept, really. 

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  • It's no small wonder, then, that there are those who have a complete inability to grasp this simple concept, and instead of waiting in the queue with the rest of the cart-filling hoarders, they think themselves exempt from the blatant "x items or less" signs plastered around and above the express checkout lane, rocking right up to them regardless of the fact that their number of items exceeds the expressed maximums by multitudes. 

    Usually, other customers will silently scowl as they watch the entitled individual loading their plethora of items up onto the belt, as the cashier looks on with a glazed dead stare—having put up with this same infuriating schtick far too many times. In this instance, though, this young, mouthy fellow customer wasn't going to stand by idly, putting the Karen in her place with a quick and sick burn.

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    Font - Posted by u/PJMurphy Grocery Store Karen. This was years ago, when I had a .22 caliber brain and a .50 caliber mouth. I was at a grocery store, with two items. I went to the Customer Service desk, which had a sign that said "5 Items or Less". Just as I was approaching the counter, a Karen ducked in front of me with a basket that had 12 to 15 items, and she started unloading it on to the counter.
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    Font - I looked at the cashier, pointed at the sign, held up my hand with my fingers spread out, and gestured as a question. She looked at me and shrugged, as if she couldn't do anything about it. So I said to Karen, "You must be a natural blonde." She replied, "I am! How did you know?"
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    Font - I pointed at the sign. "Because you can't count to five." Oh, was she mad. She paid and got out of there in a blur. Afterward, the cashier was grinning. I said, "You probably aren't allowed to say anything....but I can."
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    Font - BeautifulPhantom1 15 hr. ago Got her hopes all up waiting for a compliment and then trashed her like last night's garbage. Creative insult that was 100% warranted. 1.1k Reply Share CoderJoe1 15 hr. ago Threw her away like yesterday's jam. 180 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - youcanngrowJoe 9 hr. ago This reminds me of one of seeing people in traffic changing lanes without using their blinkers. Pull up beside them and roll down the window and say "excuse me, but I think the (make of car they are driving) dealership is the other way" confused they say "I'm not going to the dealership”. “Oh, sorry, I just assumed since neither one of your f-in blinkers work you were on your way to get them fixed" Reply Share 152
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    Font - Lay-ZFair. 15 hr. ago Reminds me of one of my favorites: Guy goes into the bar and as he drinks his beer says to the bartender, would you like to hear a blonde joke? Bartender looks at him points at his own scalp and says, I'm blonde, then points at 2 guys playing pool says they're both blonde and then to the bouncer at the door and he's blonde too. Are you sure you want to tell that joke? So the guy looks around at them one by one and says, Nah, I'd have to repeat it 4 times. 387 Reply S
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    Font - makeluvnotsex. 17 hr. ago I crack blonde jokes all the time. My blonde daughter used to get aggravated. So one day I grew my hair out so she saw I was a lighter blonde than her. Now she plays aggravated when I tease her with blonde jokes at the check out, but laughs later 98 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - ArtBear1212 - 15 hr. ago On behalf of all customer service workers everywhere, thank you. Reply Share 42 ●●●
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    Font - dkech 10 hr. ago I don't understand why cashiers in some places are not allowed to enforce rules. I've been in supermarkets where the cashiers could just tell customers "sorry", point to the sign and send them away, everybody was happier. You can't make a queue of customers upset just to accommodate a single rule- breaking one. It's bad for the store. 436 Reply Share
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    Font - hoppyfrog 14 hr. ago Updoot for the .22 caliber brain and .50 caliber mouth 65 Reply Share St_Ander 13 hr. ago For shooting your mouth off. 19 Reply Share
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