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Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Why would anyone care if someone is on the phone at a grocery check-out?

No idea what Dagney's beef is, but I detest noise pollution and can run you a few off the top of my head:

Shopping can be a fraught experience at the best of times. I don't need this compunded by hearing, "I'm not going out Friday, nah I'm broke innit. Nah I can't go out. Nah, nah. I don't get my student loan til next week and I was out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and I bought them new Diesel jeans today. Where you going anyway? Oh right. Right. Will that fit bird be there? Yeah the one wiv da fit arse. Yeah. Alright, see you bout 8 then. Yeah we're gonna get munted mate."

People on mobiles simply don't function as efficiently as those not on them (YMMV). If they are packing their shopping single handed in order to continue the dross above, they are slowing me down for no good reason.

I think it is rude at the point of being served, to stare blankly at the amount owed and hand a card over, as if the cashier is nothing more than a vending machine. Working in a supermarket isn't exactly a fulfilling job - it helps to have customers who talk to you, or at the very least acknowledge you.

The call can wait.