Do you know this person?

Why is the person in front of me at the checkout always got something that is either unpriced or needs changing?
This person who holds up the queue for 15 minutes goes from shop to shop but is always just in front of me. They wear different clothes and disguises, but I'm sure it's the same person who does it everywhere I go.
They were at it again today. They were in my bank, fiddling about with those plastic bags full of their pennies and five pences from their piggy bank, holding everyone up.
Then blow me, if they didn't get in the same queue as me at Asda. This time it was a box of eggs with one broken, which took an assistant at least 10 minutes to replace.
But the last straw was when they were in front of me again at the temporary traffic lights. The lights changed to green but they sat there so long before moving off, the bloody lights changed again before I could get through !!!
Keep a sharp look out folks, he will be coming to your area too . . .

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I wonder if he is related to the one who waits until he has stepped onto the bus before rummaging through his pockets for the fare.

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They're probably the same women who go through the checkout and just stand there while the girl scans and packs their goods into the bags. Then seem completely surprised when the girl asks for money and have to rummage through their handbag to find their purse.

Thank gawd for self service checkouts.

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So agree with that - makes me teeth itch it does, I stand there doing me impersonation of Humphrey Bogart !

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Maybe the same ones who come here on holiday, fill up their supermarket trolley, mostly wine, beer and spirits, then act in amazement when the checkout person tells them they can´t pay with English sterling, so out come the credit cards and they go through them all until they find one that works, sometimes none of them work then they just leave the trolley and stamp off, usually calling abuse as they leave.

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I notice your bogey is a 'He' Mups, mine is a 'She', she's always in the post office in front of me no matter what time I choose to go there, at the train station ticket office and can never find her travel pass, even in the pub in front of me when I'm ordering a pint, she has her other old biddies with her and it takes her half an hour to remember what they all asked for, from specialised water to walnut topped sherry which has to be 'A Winters Tale'. Oh I know her well.

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The worst thing is when they are in the post office weighing a hundred parcels and there is only one widow open...

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They're often in my local post office too Meg, and I'm certain they wait until only one window is open to approach. I think there must be a gang of them working the different areas. Maybe our reactions are all being filmed for a new TV programme.
If they are out in force again today, the cameras might just catch a glimpse of me throttling someone. . .

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Hmm, that's interesting Jem, a female accomplice as well. Makes me wonder if there are more about than I realised.

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Sounds like it ST. I'm beginning to notice a pattern to this. I wonder if they are being employed by someone to aggravate or if they do it happily for free?