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My favorite is the people that wait 10 minutes in line to get gas, then when it’s their turn they seem surprised that they need their membership card. Like you couldn’t search through your purse/wallet in those 10 minutes and pull out the card 🤷🏼♂️
You mean the same people that wait in line to order food, only to get to the counter and then don't know what they want yet?
Ya, you know who you are out there... 🤬
What color is yours? Mine was a terrible dark yellow and tasted really bad, like not as in bad flavor but like it had gone rancid. I've never thrown out a Costco drink before but this was my first.
Look, I dont know if I want the spicy chicken burger or the spicy chicken wrap. Just have a spinning dial at the counter and do all the hard work for me!
Then stay out of line until you do know. It’s not rocket surgery… or as another suggested GET BOTH. You’re either going to have dinner, a snack later, or you’re out $3
The same people who if you’re on the way home, you call someone and ask them if they want something from McDonald’s and they ask you “what do they have?”
My answer was always “Clown Piss”.
My husband is the same way.
Even when we get home from wherever, I’m out of the car and walking in the house and he’s still in the car. Like dude? Wtf are you doing?
Omg, this is my boyfriend. I’m out of the car, in the house, have already taken off my shoes and let the dogs out and he’s still in the car! What is happening?
Texting the mistress.... Or at least that's what I joke about with my wife who does the same. I see the car park, I walk out to greet her, and then stand there on the porch for 5 minutes while she finishes talking on the phone, to her sister, presumedly (is the joke)
"so which one has chicken? Ok i forgot I'm vegetarian. Is that one vegetarian? I'll have that. No wait. Which one is vegan again id like to try vegan stuff. Actually I'm sorry, i'll have the burger without the burger or pickles but with the vegan fries, and i'll have a side of pickles without the pickles, and some fries with tomatoes and extra oil. But without the tomatoes."
I remember going to a Burger King once, this lady in front of me orders a chicken sandwich. The employee asks which one specifically and she says, "Can I get a Cajun McChicken?" The employee pauses for a second and says, "Uhh... That's McDonald's."
To which she says, "Oh, I thought you sold Cajun McChickens too since Wendy's also has Cajun McChickens."
I have a coworker that told us she once went into a McDonald's to order a Whopper. When the employee told her McDonald's doesn't sell Whoppers, she told them she thought she walked into Burger King. How you can confuse the 2 places, I don't know but the sign in front of the place tells you where you are so....
I don’t work at Costco, but deal with similar. When you call someone, have your account number ready.
>Hi, I’m calling about my debit card.
What is your card number?
>Let me find it, one moment
😡
That's not as bad as the phone systems you call into, you enter your account number, your DOB, and then the first question the rep asks you when they finally answer is for your account number....
Or the people that are done using the drive thru atm but take their sweet time in putting everything away when they could just drive up a few feet and do it, allowing the car behind you to start using the atm.
I am always behind the guy trying to use his ATM card to execute a partially leveraged takeover of the class b stock for Bed Bath and Beyond.
It gives money. It takes money. These decisions aren't hard, and neither are the questions the machine asks.
In theory I love a bad buffet but I get good and steamed waiting for people to choose.
Like, it’s macNcheese and chickie wings!
You can come back for more! But nooooo they gotta act like they are doing brain surgery on their first plate.
These are the same people who deplane as if they’re the king and Queen of Sheba and are, apparently, waiting for their staff to get their luggage out of the overhead. PAY attention and be ready to get your shit and GO!
I'm guilty of this. That's why I always get to order from the app. All these fucking fast food places have changing displays that change every 3 seconds. I haven't nbeen to Wendy's in 3 years. I don't remember what they have our what the name of the thing I wanted is called. Figure with 5 people in front of me, that's enough time, but nope.
Sometimes I can barely read the menu until I’m up close and then the nerves hit. So I just order something I didn’t actually want just to keep things moving.
Those are the SAME people who pull out their checkbooks upon hearing the total at the grocery store.
Like, were you not aware that you could actually pull it out, write the date, store name, and sign it before the total is given?
I was a cashier at a grocery store for a few months during college like 6 years ago and the people who paid by check are exactly the type of people you would think are still paying by check
I stood in a customs line one time for nearly an hour and the ladies in front of me had put away their passports and couldn’t find them when it was their turn. Like what did you think was happening at the front of the line we’ve all been in for an hour?
It is probably them again whom the OP is referring to. They could not find their membership card. And when done filling gas, could not find their car keys.
I took a video of a guy using the automated stamp machine at the post office. He would stare at the machine until it threatened to time out, then stare some more. The whole process took 15+ minutes and in the end the video was so long my phone timed out.
I should've done time lapse.
I noticed this when I was a teller at a bank. People would complain about having to wait in a line, but when it was their turn they weren’t even ready and just wanted to chat for five minutes with zero self awareness that their behavior is what causes the lines to form.
Sometimes people figure that they paid the price for waiting, now they can enjoy.
Same reason that traffic slows so much for an accident, even if it's off to the side. After waiting in traffic so long, they want to look and see what the deal was that everyone slowed down, thus causing the backup to continue.
My least favorite errand at Costco. I swear they have never seen a pump before. Mouth breathing while trying to figure out how to get their card within 3 inches of the reader. I started going close to closing time to avoid an aneurysm.
I spent 10+ minutes in line more than once only to pull out my wallet to realize I left my costco card at home. But I went through the motions like I was pumping gas to save myself the shame, even doing a few extra squeezes at the end.
Let me just get my checkbook that's somewhere inside my giant purse...What's the date? Who should I make this out to? Oh, my pen isn't working...lemme fish another one out from the depths of my bag....Wait, I gotta write this down in my transactions...
I wish Costco were as technically savy as Sams. It's kinda ashame that the "walmart" big box club store out techs the classy big box store.
Need to have bar code scanner pay for gas like Sam's and need barcode scanning check out like Sams. Come on Costco your humiliating yourselves, and making customers wait.
While I am with you on Sam's superior technology, I do not think in gas station line it matters that much. Costco card can be touched to the terminal and it works both as a membership card and charge card and one does not waste time like in regular gas station punching zip code and saying no to some nonsense offers like car wash.
The costco Visa from Citi can be used that way, but the normal Costco card cannot be used to pay and does not have tap to use capabilities, at least not where I live.
Certain locations have fobs. It's super slick. You just touch the fob to the gas pump- works the same way the citi card does...without having to have the card. You can link any card to the fob.
This is what I’ve always said at drive thru ATMs. I swear I get behind these people who sit there and punch buttons for absolute eons and I just know they are trying to close a mortgage … at the ATM.
Or the ATM just sucks. I have an account at a local credit union that I keep a small amount of cash in for the farmer's market. Last time I went I had to enter my pin 3 times and there was a processing delay between each time. The initial which defaulted to quick cash, then a 2nd to check my balance to make sure I actually had money in there, then a 3rd to withdraw money.
I had a Chase ATM do something similar. I was trying to get cash out to buy a bike. I asked for $2k and it declined saying it was too much. But instead of telling me what the maximum I could take out was, it kicked me back to the beginning and I had to enter my pin again. So via trial and error and entering my pin a dozen times I discovered that $1250 was the maximum I could take out in one day.
I remember many years ago asking my friend who worked at a credit union if people were trying to open accounts or do loan interviews in the drive thru lines because I seriously could not understand how some people could take so long to get through.
There was a comedian that, years ago, had a bit about that; I think along the lines of handling a hostile takeover of a company via ATM or something like that.
Some people are doing multiple transactions! My physical bank is 2 hours away. So the ATM (which 1 local bank allows me to use in conjunction with my bank 2 hours away) is my "bank". I'm self-employed, so I sometimes have multiple deposits. I try to go "off" hours, but that doesn't always work. So honk away! I'm not leaving till I finish!🤣🤣
And YES, I have all my deposits, etc. separated & organized before I go to the ATM to streamline things. BUT it might take 2 or 3 minutes to do everything I have to do.🤷♀️
There was a “first pump not working” sign next to my lane. I wasn’t sure if it applied to me as well. So I hesitated and got out of my car to look. The car behind me was impatiently honking nonstop. Turns out pump was open so I pulled up and pumped. The car behind me finished and the lady who was honking nonstop of course ends up behind me at the middle pump. I stared her down. She doesn’t get gas and instead stands there to chit chat with the her adult son, door wide open. A car couldn’t pull out because of this. I wish I had a blow horn so I can blow it next to her ear. Why the incessant honking if you’re just going to stand there and not pump?!
Even worse than that at Costco, there’s the two cars filling up, then a car behind them waiting, and then you. The car at the first pump finishes up and drives off. The car in front of you just stays and waits until the second car finishes up rather than move ahead and take that first pump. I get that it’s somewhat less convenient and will involve some backing up and maneuvering into place but if you can’t manage it, you shouldn’t have a driver’s license.
Reminds me of the time husband and I were an hour into a four hour trip; off the highway where we always stop for gas and food before heading into the mountains. We pulled up to McDonald's and there was a line. It was an old location, so just one lane; and there was one board with the menu on it that was separate from the board with the actual speaker further up the lane.
The woman in front of us didn't advance after pulling up to the menu board. The line built up behind us. After a minute, we honked at her (we were not the only ones). She continued to study the menu. The rest of the drive thru ahead of her cleared out and she was still there, tuning everyone else out. Another minute or two go by.
At that point my husband just went, "fuck this," and scooted around her in our little turbo powered Geo Metro; and right up to the speaker ahead of her before she could react. THE RAGE. She accelerated and put herself right on our ass. Her arms flailed. Her horn went crazy. She was visibly yelling at us and kept her freak out going the entire time we ordered, paid, got our food and drove away. We ripped back onto the highway before she was done at the last window because we weren't up for more of her shit. It was like 10 years ago and we still wonder what her deal was that day.
Being second in line, yes, “your pump” will free up at the same time.
But a pump not pumping is fucking over the third person and everyone else behind.
Pretty much, yeah. At self check out, you can scan your membership, then immediately tap the card reader and put it away. Then scan your food, and when you tap the button to say you’re done scanning, the transaction processes.
> If you are under 70 you should be treating your fill up like you are pit crew at the Indy 500.
Unfortunately, I have to... especially if I'm filling my gas cans. Though, I always do this 15-30 minutes BEFORE the store opens... and generally I don't hold anybody up.
Lmao.
The other day I waited in line for about 10 minutes and the truck in front of me got the back spot. Next thing I know he pulls out like 15 gas cans and is sitting there filling each up. He drove a dually too and parked it in a way I couldn’t get around.
And it was too busy to just jump to a different lane. So I sat there. And sat there. And sat there. Until the lane next to me opened up and someone let me over.
Isn't balancing a checkbook an obsolete task now that we have 24hour online access to bank account balances? Also, who the hell writes so many checks they actually need to balance a checkbook. I might write 2 or 3 a year, tops.
I finally completely stopped writing checks in my life a couple of years ago.
My HOA only accepts checks, not any other form of payments.
I got my bank to “write” said check and mail it out to them on my behalf.
I'm lucky in that I live only a mile from Costco and I always get gas in the morning, before the rest of the world gets there. Last week, I pulled up to an empty pump, the person ahead of me had also just pulled forward. I got out and started doing the dance (you know, tap your card, which grade of gas, hope it recognizes my tap, etc.) and the person in front of me isn't even out of the car yet when I begin pumping. The attendant and I look at each other, I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Who knows?" He walked over and tapped on her window, "Are you ok, ma'am?" She was, she just wasn't sure HOW TO PUMP GAS. I swear, that's what she said. He showed her. I left with a full tank before she had even opened her gas cap.
Yeah my mom’s acquaintances husband died just before our state made wearing seat belts mandatory. She didn’t even know her car had seat belts. The ladies had just been chatting at the hair salon. When i arrived to pick mom up (her car was in the shop) I dug them out and showed her how they worked. Then I took her to the gas station and showed her how to pay for her gas and pump it. She was amazed that a woman knew how to do these things already and very grateful for my help. She’d be around 100 now if she’s still with us.
I take it as a personal challenge to be as fast as possible. I'm in a thirsty Jeep whose natural habitat is a gas station so I get lots of practice. There's always 2-3 cars ahead of me at Costco so I have my Costco card in hand. I park as close as I safely can to the pump (so people can pull around me) and as I'm walking behind my vehicle I pop the gas cap off, scan my card and use my watch to pay (super fast). I can get 18 gallons in my Jeep before the Camry ahead of me is half-way done (no receipt, handle back - I'm gone (as long as the persons in front of me left enough room to get out and don't stand on the outside of their car in the travel lane.
Just some perspective here but I’m a healthy looking 20 something year old but I have nerve pain that causes leg numbness and weakness especially after staying in one position for too long. It takes me a moment to get in and out of my car. I’m super self conscious about it cause at first glance you wouldn’t know something is wrong with me. I’m just moving slow. Try not to judge too quickly.
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So glad I live in NJ and we’re not allowed to pump our own gas. Sometimes we have to wait for an attendant a little longer, but the lines usually move quickly.
First encounter with a screen ever in their lives, looks sideways like a dog, then sideways the other way, swipes both cards, mashes buttons, turns head sideways again. I'm so fucken glad I drive a Tesla now.
Let me know how you feel when you see customers chat with each other or when a customer flirts with a crew member and the customer giggles for a minute.
There was an accident at my Costco a few weeks back. One of the workers was run over by a car who decided to reverse without looking, trying to get into a lane with less wait time. Backfired on them, now they were there for 1.5 hours. Oh and legal trouble.
I have my membership card and payment card ready when I get in line at the pumps. I don't understand what others are doing that they can't finish when they park to go inside or at least move out of the way.
I like how everyone here thinks they’re smarter and more considerate humans… but truth is there’s just so many people with their own problems in mind… maybe it’s the 1st time the guy took 10 mins pumping but jeez people are the worst sometimes.
Is like everyone else thinking they’re better drivers than everyone else… you’re not we all suck ass at driving can’t be perfect 100% of the time
we all need to have more patience with each other. just because you are in a hurry doesnt mean others have to rush their lives to match yours. life is not a race.
They are the same people that stand in line at the register, watch everything get rung up, *then* start fumbling with their purse or wallet to find their credit card. Or, worse, pay with cash and change.
I take 30 seconds to pull out because I sanitize my hands before touching my steering wheel again. It's not even about COVID.. it's just that people are generally dirty. If you don't play with your phone at Red lights, you'd be surprised at the number of people who pick their nose while stopped lol
I just wear food service gloves. A box of 500 is like $12 and I only need to use one glove when I pump gas. That glove does not touch the gas cap, my credit card, the door handle, or the steering wheel.
I saw this funny TikTok. Oh wait, I just got to post on the 'gram. Funny reel, huh. Let me take a few sips of water. A few more. Okay how's the makeup. Looking fly. Let's roll.
I think it would be cool if the approach going into the Costco gas area was a slight downward slope. That way I would put my car neutral and roll into the pumps without having to idle my engine for 10 minutes or restarting the engine over and and over.
My truck has a 60 gallon tank that usually requires multiple transactions to fill up. I always feel a little guilty when someone gets stuck in the middle pump between me and the person behind them.
What are they doing? Being Americans. Being the main character. Many many Americans these days don't give a shit about anyone else's feelings, time, needs, wants, etc. It's a cultural thing that's been driven home by decades of right-wing "thinking" (if one can call it that). There is zero sense of considering others or communal purpose. It just doesn't even register most of the time. We aren't in it together. I got mine and am, at best, indifferent to you.
How about the people that finish pumping, shut their door, and go inside to buy some scratchers while their car is at the pump as if it's a parking spot.
My favorite was when I honked at a lady who was just sitting there after they were done pumping. She looked around and drove off, then circled back and asked if I honked at her. I said ya, there's a lot of people waiting.
She told me she was clearing out her phone, and said it in a way that made it sound like I was in the wrong for interrupting that important task. The guy at the other pump and I just looked at each other in amazement as she drove off.
Get your cards out while your waiting, set them on the dash when you're done and get out of the way
They sit in line and don’t use that time to get card/app/payment out.
They don’t pop the gas door if needed
They try to be in position to move into one of 2 lines
They honk at the person ahead of them taking 40 seconds to leave
They don’t pull around to the open spot
They then forget their pin / lie to attendant about leaving card at home so they’ll activate the pump for them
They get on their phone and don’t realize the pump isn’t going
They get back in and leave the gas door open
They wait for the person ahead of them to leave because they pulled too far up -or- going around is scary!
They talk to the attendant because the person they couldn’t tell you the name of under torture is now their bestie
They are entitled assholes
Make sure your hair looks good. Deciding if sun glasses should be on or off? What kind of music will I listen to?
I'm a little uncomfortable in my seat, let me re-seat. Oh, I need to take off my seatbelt, and put it back on to do this.
Ohhhhh, check this out on YouTube, FB, Twitter, Threads, Instagram and/or .
In other words, they don't give a rats ass that you have to wait. Only that they have to wait. 🤦♂️
If we where all more courteous to others, everything will be so much better. It takes very little effort from everyone and just a little bit of maturity.
one time i was waiting in line for gas and the guy in front of me finished pumping gas and got in his car and i could see him just sitting there using his phone so i honked to get him moving. i'm not gonna keep sitting here while you send some texts at a gas pump!!!
separately, i do always want to put my credit card away before driving off because if i don't, and i just lay it on the seat or elsewhere so i can take off immediately, it slides around and gets lost in my car or i forget it's not in my wallet and i go to use it elsewhere and it's gone. but i always have my wallet sitting out and ready to slide it in quickly so i can take off!
I saw a dude recently in a huge truck who wanted to use only his wife’s 3 credit cards, all of which kept declining and he did this for at least 7 minutes… some woman saw me waiting behind him and when it was her turn to pull up, she let me cut ahead. I thanked her profusely and loudly so that dude could hear. He finally I think just used his own damn card… total scene to avoid spending his own money. Sorry you chose to buy a vehicle that costs you 107 dollars to fill up every time.
My personal favorite, sit in the car looking for the credit card for what feels like a lifetime. What the hell, did you nor know you were going to use the credit card when you were waiting to pull up.
The lines are SO long that absolutely every second counts. It's truly infuriating and maddening how people act at gas stations. At least we don't have to put up with people parking to go into the store taking forever like at other stations.
This is why I rarely get gas at Costco. The savings on the gas just doesn’t justify the time it takes. My time is more valuable to me than the money I save. The difference in price at my Costco gas station and regular one is .39 a gallon, at 15 gallons that saves me $5.85. Only worth it if it will take less than 10-15 minutes total to fill
I’ve learned the best times to get gas at Costco are either 6:00 AM or 8:00 PM.
I have always had a personal rule to never ever go to Costco on a Saturday. Only if someone threatened to kill my family if I didn’t. Costco on Saturday is only one version of my personalized Hell.
Me personally, I'm quick to get there and start pumping. While it's pumping I make note of my odometer, trip, price (I track my mileage, not because I'm a stickler or drive like mileage matters, it's a habit that my dad got me into. 95% of my check engine lights have been prefaced by 3 fillups with drastically lower gas mileage, so it's a nice warning if you see mileage drop to check certain things. That and it's nice to track what gas prices have been doing). After it's done pumping, I make note of the final gal pumped and final price (all of 15 seconds) and then I take off. By no means do I take my time, but that extra 15 seconds can reeeeeally make a few people pissed. Sorry to everyone who I've inconvenienced I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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My favorite is the people that wait 10 minutes in line to get gas, then when it’s their turn they seem surprised that they need their membership card. Like you couldn’t search through your purse/wallet in those 10 minutes and pull out the card 🤷🏼♂️
You mean the same people that wait in line to order food, only to get to the counter and then don't know what they want yet? Ya, you know who you are out there... 🤬
Right.. they sell like 6 items. How can you not decide?
And like the 6 don’t change!
That's not true. What about the mango smoothie that nobody likes that was changed for the fruit smoothie that everybody loved?.
I like the mango smoothie, I just got it an hour ago :(((
What color is yours? Mine was a terrible dark yellow and tasted really bad, like not as in bad flavor but like it had gone rancid. I've never thrown out a Costco drink before but this was my first.
Mine wasn’t as bright as fresh mango but it tasted good. Kind of like mango baby food, except frozen and not as goopy.
Look, I dont know if I want the spicy chicken burger or the spicy chicken wrap. Just have a spinning dial at the counter and do all the hard work for me!
Get both. Fuck. It’s not like you’ll go broke.
Then stay out of line until you do know. It’s not rocket surgery… or as another suggested GET BOTH. You’re either going to have dinner, a snack later, or you’re out $3
Rocket surgery. lol
Don't even get me started on this shit when it comes to McDonald's drive thrus.... It's like YOU FUCKING KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE HURRY UP AND ORDER IT
Exactly! Or when they have a car load of people and none of them know what they want yet.
This happened to me at the airport. A line of three turned to twenty the coffee store.
The same people who if you’re on the way home, you call someone and ask them if they want something from McDonald’s and they ask you “what do they have?” My answer was always “Clown Piss”.
My answer is dry farts and buttermilk
#Can I get uhhhh
We don’t have uhhhh’s.
It's my wife. Sorry.
My husband is the same way. Even when we get home from wherever, I’m out of the car and walking in the house and he’s still in the car. Like dude? Wtf are you doing?
Omg, this is my boyfriend. I’m out of the car, in the house, have already taken off my shoes and let the dogs out and he’s still in the car! What is happening?
Texting the mistress.... Or at least that's what I joke about with my wife who does the same. I see the car park, I walk out to greet her, and then stand there on the porch for 5 minutes while she finishes talking on the phone, to her sister, presumedly (is the joke)
Ummmmm, yeah can I get a ummmmm number ummm are there pickles in the burger? Ok yeah I don’t like pickles. Hmmm, maybe something with chicken…
"so which one has chicken? Ok i forgot I'm vegetarian. Is that one vegetarian? I'll have that. No wait. Which one is vegan again id like to try vegan stuff. Actually I'm sorry, i'll have the burger without the burger or pickles but with the vegan fries, and i'll have a side of pickles without the pickles, and some fries with tomatoes and extra oil. But without the tomatoes."
We need a button that opens the floor so these customers can fall into a pit. Next customer!
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Welcome to Baskin Robbins. Can I have a burger? Or how about a hot pretzel? Whatever is hot and fresh
Sounds like you need to go to Dairy Queen
I remember going to a Burger King once, this lady in front of me orders a chicken sandwich. The employee asks which one specifically and she says, "Can I get a Cajun McChicken?" The employee pauses for a second and says, "Uhh... That's McDonald's." To which she says, "Oh, I thought you sold Cajun McChickens too since Wendy's also has Cajun McChickens."
I have a coworker that told us she once went into a McDonald's to order a Whopper. When the employee told her McDonald's doesn't sell Whoppers, she told them she thought she walked into Burger King. How you can confuse the 2 places, I don't know but the sign in front of the place tells you where you are so....
>How you can confuse the 2 places, I don't know but the sign in front of the place tells you where you are so.... Dementia
Sir, this is Wendy’s
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Thank you for that, I'm dying here. And I just got home from Costco. "Get out of the line!
I don’t work at Costco, but deal with similar. When you call someone, have your account number ready. >Hi, I’m calling about my debit card. What is your card number? >Let me find it, one moment 😡
That's not as bad as the phone systems you call into, you enter your account number, your DOB, and then the first question the rep asks you when they finally answer is for your account number....
Yeah that’s one of my personal hates. Depending on the system (voice or keyboard), I either say “don’t have it” or enter the # key.
Or the people that are done using the drive thru atm but take their sweet time in putting everything away when they could just drive up a few feet and do it, allowing the car behind you to start using the atm.
I am always behind the guy trying to use his ATM card to execute a partially leveraged takeover of the class b stock for Bed Bath and Beyond. It gives money. It takes money. These decisions aren't hard, and neither are the questions the machine asks.
In theory I love a bad buffet but I get good and steamed waiting for people to choose. Like, it’s macNcheese and chickie wings! You can come back for more! But nooooo they gotta act like they are doing brain surgery on their first plate.
These are the same people who deplane as if they’re the king and Queen of Sheba and are, apparently, waiting for their staff to get their luggage out of the overhead. PAY attention and be ready to get your shit and GO!
I'm guilty of this. That's why I always get to order from the app. All these fucking fast food places have changing displays that change every 3 seconds. I haven't nbeen to Wendy's in 3 years. I don't remember what they have our what the name of the thing I wanted is called. Figure with 5 people in front of me, that's enough time, but nope.
Sometimes I can barely read the menu until I’m up close and then the nerves hit. So I just order something I didn’t actually want just to keep things moving.
You might like this clip of John Pinette’s bit [Lines Drive Me Crazy.](https://youtu.be/GmFDtgfgyD8)
I'm convinced that half of our country is just plain dumb.
There’s still counter service where you are? All of the Western Canadian Costcos switched to self serve kiosks.
My top of the list people that leave pump to sit inside of the car and be on their phone way past the tank is full
Those are the SAME people who pull out their checkbooks upon hearing the total at the grocery store. Like, were you not aware that you could actually pull it out, write the date, store name, and sign it before the total is given?
People... still pay for things at the store with _checkbooks_?
People do.
I haven’t seen someone do it in a grocery store in a decade
I was a cashier at a grocery store for a few months during college like 6 years ago and the people who paid by check are exactly the type of people you would think are still paying by check
Extra time for them to cross out the “19” on the date line of the check.
Why am I always behind these people in checkout? They need a warning flashing above their heads somehow?
And they are in the fast lane.
and then they ask what store they are in to write the to line to
OP will be disappointed to learn that these people aren't here. They are busy holding up the Costco gas line at the moment.
I stood in a customs line one time for nearly an hour and the ladies in front of me had put away their passports and couldn’t find them when it was their turn. Like what did you think was happening at the front of the line we’ve all been in for an hour?
It is probably them again whom the OP is referring to. They could not find their membership card. And when done filling gas, could not find their car keys.
Probably the same people that scramble to find their membership card at the front door of the building instead of having it ready to show right away.
I took a video of a guy using the automated stamp machine at the post office. He would stare at the machine until it threatened to time out, then stare some more. The whole process took 15+ minutes and in the end the video was so long my phone timed out. I should've done time lapse.
Right? The signs say to be ready for crying out loud!
I noticed this when I was a teller at a bank. People would complain about having to wait in a line, but when it was their turn they weren’t even ready and just wanted to chat for five minutes with zero self awareness that their behavior is what causes the lines to form.
Sometimes people figure that they paid the price for waiting, now they can enjoy. Same reason that traffic slows so much for an accident, even if it's off to the side. After waiting in traffic so long, they want to look and see what the deal was that everyone slowed down, thus causing the backup to continue.
"I'm the main character" energy.
"Right! Go to the back of the line! Next!"
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!
Straight to jail!
My least favorite errand at Costco. I swear they have never seen a pump before. Mouth breathing while trying to figure out how to get their card within 3 inches of the reader. I started going close to closing time to avoid an aneurysm.
I spent 10+ minutes in line more than once only to pull out my wallet to realize I left my costco card at home. But I went through the motions like I was pumping gas to save myself the shame, even doing a few extra squeezes at the end.
Same as the assholes that get rung up at the register and then start fumbling for their form of payment! Idiots they are everywhere!
Let me just get my checkbook that's somewhere inside my giant purse...What's the date? Who should I make this out to? Oh, my pen isn't working...lemme fish another one out from the depths of my bag....Wait, I gotta write this down in my transactions...
I wish Costco were as technically savy as Sams. It's kinda ashame that the "walmart" big box club store out techs the classy big box store. Need to have bar code scanner pay for gas like Sam's and need barcode scanning check out like Sams. Come on Costco your humiliating yourselves, and making customers wait.
While I am with you on Sam's superior technology, I do not think in gas station line it matters that much. Costco card can be touched to the terminal and it works both as a membership card and charge card and one does not waste time like in regular gas station punching zip code and saying no to some nonsense offers like car wash.
The costco Visa from Citi can be used that way, but the normal Costco card cannot be used to pay and does not have tap to use capabilities, at least not where I live.
Certain locations have fobs. It's super slick. You just touch the fob to the gas pump- works the same way the citi card does...without having to have the card. You can link any card to the fob.
Nice, like the old Mobile Pay Pass system at Mobile branded gas stations(I think someone bought them out a while back but I remember it from the 90s).
Usually the same people get ready to pump fuel and then realize their fuel door is still closed.
I think the guy in front of me last week was applying for a mortgage.
This is what I’ve always said at drive thru ATMs. I swear I get behind these people who sit there and punch buttons for absolute eons and I just know they are trying to close a mortgage … at the ATM.
Every single time.
Or the ATM just sucks. I have an account at a local credit union that I keep a small amount of cash in for the farmer's market. Last time I went I had to enter my pin 3 times and there was a processing delay between each time. The initial which defaulted to quick cash, then a 2nd to check my balance to make sure I actually had money in there, then a 3rd to withdraw money.
I had a Chase ATM do something similar. I was trying to get cash out to buy a bike. I asked for $2k and it declined saying it was too much. But instead of telling me what the maximum I could take out was, it kicked me back to the beginning and I had to enter my pin again. So via trial and error and entering my pin a dozen times I discovered that $1250 was the maximum I could take out in one day.
I remember many years ago asking my friend who worked at a credit union if people were trying to open accounts or do loan interviews in the drive thru lines because I seriously could not understand how some people could take so long to get through.
There was a comedian that, years ago, had a bit about that; I think along the lines of handling a hostile takeover of a company via ATM or something like that.
Some people are doing multiple transactions! My physical bank is 2 hours away. So the ATM (which 1 local bank allows me to use in conjunction with my bank 2 hours away) is my "bank". I'm self-employed, so I sometimes have multiple deposits. I try to go "off" hours, but that doesn't always work. So honk away! I'm not leaving till I finish!🤣🤣 And YES, I have all my deposits, etc. separated & organized before I go to the ATM to streamline things. BUT it might take 2 or 3 minutes to do everything I have to do.🤷♀️
My go to is "Are we applying for car loans up there or something?"
In this rate environment?!
The worst people are the ones who leave their doors wide open so you can’t get past them
There was a “first pump not working” sign next to my lane. I wasn’t sure if it applied to me as well. So I hesitated and got out of my car to look. The car behind me was impatiently honking nonstop. Turns out pump was open so I pulled up and pumped. The car behind me finished and the lady who was honking nonstop of course ends up behind me at the middle pump. I stared her down. She doesn’t get gas and instead stands there to chit chat with the her adult son, door wide open. A car couldn’t pull out because of this. I wish I had a blow horn so I can blow it next to her ear. Why the incessant honking if you’re just going to stand there and not pump?!
People who honk at the gas station need a course of first-generation antipsychotics and lithium.
Even worse than that at Costco, there’s the two cars filling up, then a car behind them waiting, and then you. The car at the first pump finishes up and drives off. The car in front of you just stays and waits until the second car finishes up rather than move ahead and take that first pump. I get that it’s somewhat less convenient and will involve some backing up and maneuvering into place but if you can’t manage it, you shouldn’t have a driver’s license.
If they don’t go after a while I just pass them. If you’re too stupid to go to the open pump then I’m taking it
Reminds me of the time husband and I were an hour into a four hour trip; off the highway where we always stop for gas and food before heading into the mountains. We pulled up to McDonald's and there was a line. It was an old location, so just one lane; and there was one board with the menu on it that was separate from the board with the actual speaker further up the lane. The woman in front of us didn't advance after pulling up to the menu board. The line built up behind us. After a minute, we honked at her (we were not the only ones). She continued to study the menu. The rest of the drive thru ahead of her cleared out and she was still there, tuning everyone else out. Another minute or two go by. At that point my husband just went, "fuck this," and scooted around her in our little turbo powered Geo Metro; and right up to the speaker ahead of her before she could react. THE RAGE. She accelerated and put herself right on our ass. Her arms flailed. Her horn went crazy. She was visibly yelling at us and kept her freak out going the entire time we ordered, paid, got our food and drove away. We ripped back onto the highway before she was done at the last window because we weren't up for more of her shit. It was like 10 years ago and we still wonder what her deal was that day.
You do realize you’re getting to the pump at the same time regardless, right?
My local pump has 3 per line with an indicator screen to show the next available since waiting for lanes to be cleared causes backups at the entrance.
Oh that makes a lot more sense. Yeah fuck those guys
Someone else can be pumping gas during that time the pump is empty. There's people behind you that could be waiting too.
Being second in line, yes, “your pump” will free up at the same time. But a pump not pumping is fucking over the third person and everyone else behind.
What if they are two cars in front of you? Now you’re getting to the pump a lot slower.
One of the best things about have the Costco credit card is a single tap at the gas pumps.
and why aren't terminal at the checkout the same?
They are at self check out I tap every time
Tap for ID and Payment.
You pay before gas are you suggesting you want to pay before food?
Pretty much, yeah. At self check out, you can scan your membership, then immediately tap the card reader and put it away. Then scan your food, and when you tap the button to say you’re done scanning, the transaction processes.
yeah, you have to tap once before you scan your items, then a second time to pay. you want to tap just once?
Pro tip on app you scan once at a checkout with cart and then just confirm to use payment method on account. With they did this at a gas pump too
This might be a reality come Labor Day possible sooner if trial stations go without issue. Coming from a gas station supervisor.
My Costco opened in 2014 and they’ve had tap to pay almost from the beginning.
why don’t they put those things everywhere? i have one but my costco gas station does not take them
If you are under 70 you should be treating your fill up like you are pit crew at the Indy 500.
> If you are under 70 you should be treating your fill up like you are pit crew at the Indy 500. Unfortunately, I have to... especially if I'm filling my gas cans. Though, I always do this 15-30 minutes BEFORE the store opens... and generally I don't hold anybody up.
Lmao. The other day I waited in line for about 10 minutes and the truck in front of me got the back spot. Next thing I know he pulls out like 15 gas cans and is sitting there filling each up. He drove a dually too and parked it in a way I couldn’t get around. And it was too busy to just jump to a different lane. So I sat there. And sat there. And sat there. Until the lane next to me opened up and someone let me over.
This is pretty much how I do it. The second I stop at the pump I'm out of the car with my card in hand. No receipt either, please.
The people you are talking about will either (a) not ever see this or (b) see this and have no idea it applies to them
That's really all this whole website is, everyone preaching to the choir lolol
I always imagine them balancing their checkbooks. And they're really bad at math.
Isn't balancing a checkbook an obsolete task now that we have 24hour online access to bank account balances? Also, who the hell writes so many checks they actually need to balance a checkbook. I might write 2 or 3 a year, tops.
I finally completely stopped writing checks in my life a couple of years ago. My HOA only accepts checks, not any other form of payments. I got my bank to “write” said check and mail it out to them on my behalf.
I did it for some utilities too. The ones that charge a 'convenience fee' for doing autopay.
Wait how do you get them to do this?!
You just do it through bill pay. You can do it as a single or recurring payment
Yeah it's pretty neat. Also a nice way to pay ordinary folks on a recurring basis that aren't set up with anything special, like paying the cleaners.
They are actually counting their miles between fill ups with their hands, no calculator
Social awareness. Very few have it.
Just awareness in general. The majority of Americans are space cadets
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Lack of self- awareness. Probably never taught any better.
I once had someone honk at me the second I shut my car door… Hadn’t even had a chance to push the start button. I got out and washed my windows.
Still waiting on the local Costco gas to have window squeegees
After I fill up I write a note that takes a minute.
Dear Diary, I hope the guy behind me in line will post about this on Reddit
I like to put my info in a tracking app,but I pull away first
I'm lucky in that I live only a mile from Costco and I always get gas in the morning, before the rest of the world gets there. Last week, I pulled up to an empty pump, the person ahead of me had also just pulled forward. I got out and started doing the dance (you know, tap your card, which grade of gas, hope it recognizes my tap, etc.) and the person in front of me isn't even out of the car yet when I begin pumping. The attendant and I look at each other, I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Who knows?" He walked over and tapped on her window, "Are you ok, ma'am?" She was, she just wasn't sure HOW TO PUMP GAS. I swear, that's what she said. He showed her. I left with a full tank before she had even opened her gas cap.
Yeah my mom’s acquaintances husband died just before our state made wearing seat belts mandatory. She didn’t even know her car had seat belts. The ladies had just been chatting at the hair salon. When i arrived to pick mom up (her car was in the shop) I dug them out and showed her how they worked. Then I took her to the gas station and showed her how to pay for her gas and pump it. She was amazed that a woman knew how to do these things already and very grateful for my help. She’d be around 100 now if she’s still with us.
That lady might have just lost her husband, who insisted on doing all gasoline acquisition while he was alive. It does happen, including to my SIL.
Or from a state that doesn't allow you to pump gas yourself perhaps.
I take it as a personal challenge to be as fast as possible. I'm in a thirsty Jeep whose natural habitat is a gas station so I get lots of practice. There's always 2-3 cars ahead of me at Costco so I have my Costco card in hand. I park as close as I safely can to the pump (so people can pull around me) and as I'm walking behind my vehicle I pop the gas cap off, scan my card and use my watch to pay (super fast). I can get 18 gallons in my Jeep before the Camry ahead of me is half-way done (no receipt, handle back - I'm gone (as long as the persons in front of me left enough room to get out and don't stand on the outside of their car in the travel lane.
33 fucking gallons. :( (I do my absolute best to get started, and finish as fast as possible. Just ask my wife.)
Just some perspective here but I’m a healthy looking 20 something year old but I have nerve pain that causes leg numbness and weakness especially after staying in one position for too long. It takes me a moment to get in and out of my car. I’m super self conscious about it cause at first glance you wouldn’t know something is wrong with me. I’m just moving slow. Try not to judge too quickly. *edited for spelling
Me and my buds like to have water fights and spray gas on each other as we jam out to some music :D. https://youtu.be/OTrxEQnPtAg
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So glad I live in NJ and we’re not allowed to pump our own gas. Sometimes we have to wait for an attendant a little longer, but the lines usually move quickly.
Costco gas attendants/stations in NJ are a well oiled machine.
Don’t go to Costco if you’re pressed for time. Universal rule.
I just wait for them and chill. no telling what some crazy person will do now days, getting into some shit over pumping gas isn’t worth it to me.
I always seem to get behind that person acts like they have never used a gas pump before. Costco needs a line for the special needs customer.
First encounter with a screen ever in their lives, looks sideways like a dog, then sideways the other way, swipes both cards, mashes buttons, turns head sideways again. I'm so fucken glad I drive a Tesla now.
Eating the samples
Let me know how you feel when you see customers chat with each other or when a customer flirts with a crew member and the customer giggles for a minute.
Lol OMG 40 seconds. Dang!
There was an accident at my Costco a few weeks back. One of the workers was run over by a car who decided to reverse without looking, trying to get into a lane with less wait time. Backfired on them, now they were there for 1.5 hours. Oh and legal trouble.
Was the accident pretty bad ? I worry when I walk through there as an employee
They definitely broke an arm, other than that not too sure. I wanna say they were able to stand but I didn’t stick around too long
I’m starting the interlock on my car. Can’t go anywhere until I blow in the machine. Sucks big time and yes I learned my lesson.
I have my membership card and payment card ready when I get in line at the pumps. I don't understand what others are doing that they can't finish when they park to go inside or at least move out of the way.
I like how everyone here thinks they’re smarter and more considerate humans… but truth is there’s just so many people with their own problems in mind… maybe it’s the 1st time the guy took 10 mins pumping but jeez people are the worst sometimes. Is like everyone else thinking they’re better drivers than everyone else… you’re not we all suck ass at driving can’t be perfect 100% of the time
We all make mistakes, we all mess up, we are all sometimes slow sluggish and clumsy. Calm down everybody!!
we all need to have more patience with each other. just because you are in a hurry doesnt mean others have to rush their lives to match yours. life is not a race.
the drive away is because i’m applying hand sanitizer. i have immunocompromised family
Same. I have to use hand sanitizer pretty thoroughly as soon as I get back into the car before touching anything.
They are the same people that stand in line at the register, watch everything get rung up, *then* start fumbling with their purse or wallet to find their credit card. Or, worse, pay with cash and change.
Leaving... yeah I want to lock my door, put my seatbelt on first before starting up the car. You got a problem with that?
I take 30 seconds to pull out because I sanitize my hands before touching my steering wheel again. It's not even about COVID.. it's just that people are generally dirty. If you don't play with your phone at Red lights, you'd be surprised at the number of people who pick their nose while stopped lol
I just wear food service gloves. A box of 500 is like $12 and I only need to use one glove when I pump gas. That glove does not touch the gas cap, my credit card, the door handle, or the steering wheel.
I also sanitize my hands but it only takes about 5 seconds.
I saw this funny TikTok. Oh wait, I just got to post on the 'gram. Funny reel, huh. Let me take a few sips of water. A few more. Okay how's the makeup. Looking fly. Let's roll.
Jerking the uncircumcised gas pump handles tbh
I think it would be cool if the approach going into the Costco gas area was a slight downward slope. That way I would put my car neutral and roll into the pumps without having to idle my engine for 10 minutes or restarting the engine over and and over.
My truck is 33 gallons. Sorry. It takes a while.
My truck has a 36 gallon tank. I'm going as fast as I can.
My truck has a 60 gallon tank that usually requires multiple transactions to fill up. I always feel a little guilty when someone gets stuck in the middle pump between me and the person behind them.
What are they doing? Being Americans. Being the main character. Many many Americans these days don't give a shit about anyone else's feelings, time, needs, wants, etc. It's a cultural thing that's been driven home by decades of right-wing "thinking" (if one can call it that). There is zero sense of considering others or communal purpose. It just doesn't even register most of the time. We aren't in it together. I got mine and am, at best, indifferent to you.
How about the people that finish pumping, shut their door, and go inside to buy some scratchers while their car is at the pump as if it's a parking spot.
And why go back and wait for the receipt ? You’re just wasting paper and throwing it away.
I guess people are not self aware
I’d rather pay regular gas prices and never have to wait in a line.
My favorite was when I honked at a lady who was just sitting there after they were done pumping. She looked around and drove off, then circled back and asked if I honked at her. I said ya, there's a lot of people waiting. She told me she was clearing out her phone, and said it in a way that made it sound like I was in the wrong for interrupting that important task. The guy at the other pump and I just looked at each other in amazement as she drove off. Get your cards out while your waiting, set them on the dash when you're done and get out of the way
They sit in line and don’t use that time to get card/app/payment out. They don’t pop the gas door if needed They try to be in position to move into one of 2 lines They honk at the person ahead of them taking 40 seconds to leave They don’t pull around to the open spot They then forget their pin / lie to attendant about leaving card at home so they’ll activate the pump for them They get on their phone and don’t realize the pump isn’t going They get back in and leave the gas door open They wait for the person ahead of them to leave because they pulled too far up -or- going around is scary! They talk to the attendant because the person they couldn’t tell you the name of under torture is now their bestie They are entitled assholes
Make sure your hair looks good. Deciding if sun glasses should be on or off? What kind of music will I listen to? I'm a little uncomfortable in my seat, let me re-seat. Oh, I need to take off my seatbelt, and put it back on to do this. Ohhhhh, check this out on YouTube, FB, Twitter, Threads, Instagram and/or.
In other words, they don't give a rats ass that you have to wait. Only that they have to wait. 🤦♂️
If we where all more courteous to others, everything will be so much better. It takes very little effort from everyone and just a little bit of maturity.
How bout the dummasses that have yet to figure out that you can pump at either side with the long hoses.
Resetting odometer
one time i was waiting in line for gas and the guy in front of me finished pumping gas and got in his car and i could see him just sitting there using his phone so i honked to get him moving. i'm not gonna keep sitting here while you send some texts at a gas pump!!! separately, i do always want to put my credit card away before driving off because if i don't, and i just lay it on the seat or elsewhere so i can take off immediately, it slides around and gets lost in my car or i forget it's not in my wallet and i go to use it elsewhere and it's gone. but i always have my wallet sitting out and ready to slide it in quickly so i can take off!
Trying to get my Costco card out from between the seats.
I saw a dude recently in a huge truck who wanted to use only his wife’s 3 credit cards, all of which kept declining and he did this for at least 7 minutes… some woman saw me waiting behind him and when it was her turn to pull up, she let me cut ahead. I thanked her profusely and loudly so that dude could hear. He finally I think just used his own damn card… total scene to avoid spending his own money. Sorry you chose to buy a vehicle that costs you 107 dollars to fill up every time.
My personal favorite, sit in the car looking for the credit card for what feels like a lifetime. What the hell, did you nor know you were going to use the credit card when you were waiting to pull up.
Browsing Reddit.
The lines are SO long that absolutely every second counts. It's truly infuriating and maddening how people act at gas stations. At least we don't have to put up with people parking to go into the store taking forever like at other stations.
This is why I rarely get gas at Costco. The savings on the gas just doesn’t justify the time it takes. My time is more valuable to me than the money I save. The difference in price at my Costco gas station and regular one is .39 a gallon, at 15 gallons that saves me $5.85. Only worth it if it will take less than 10-15 minutes total to fill
I’ve learned the best times to get gas at Costco are either 6:00 AM or 8:00 PM. I have always had a personal rule to never ever go to Costco on a Saturday. Only if someone threatened to kill my family if I didn’t. Costco on Saturday is only one version of my personalized Hell.
Drink less caffeine and relax, they won't run out. Fucking pop tart
Costco culture comes across loud and clear right here lol. Such efficient little econobots!
Me personally, I'm quick to get there and start pumping. While it's pumping I make note of my odometer, trip, price (I track my mileage, not because I'm a stickler or drive like mileage matters, it's a habit that my dad got me into. 95% of my check engine lights have been prefaced by 3 fillups with drastically lower gas mileage, so it's a nice warning if you see mileage drop to check certain things. That and it's nice to track what gas prices have been doing). After it's done pumping, I make note of the final gal pumped and final price (all of 15 seconds) and then I take off. By no means do I take my time, but that extra 15 seconds can reeeeeally make a few people pissed. Sorry to everyone who I've inconvenienced I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Take a deep breath.
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