18th March 2005, 4:55 PM
That IS stupid, and the video games are the ONLY thing they have locked up too! You ever notice that? I have noticed lately that the check out places are being slowly replaced with an automated variety. I was happy because I could finally just run through there and pay much faster than those slow arse cashiers could, until I realized the design was set up to be a freaking annoyance more than anything else. The security system, which consists ENTIRELY of a weight scale, is stupid. Basically you have to, as I found out, set every single item you get on that scale and leave it there. Well, that's all well and good if you can fit everything on it. Also, if you happen to take your stuff too soon, a totally different voice YELLS at you accusingly to put it right BACK this second. That's not the way to treat me, not when I have a heavy metal cart and that voice is totally immobile. This move is nice and all, because I like to spit on poor people as much as anyone else, but they need a new security system. I'm talking putting security tags on every single thing in the store that can only be removed by the machine after you pay for it, something like that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)