Grant Me The Patience To Teach Them Patience

(The store I work at does not have the conveyor belts at the registers like a lot of the more well-known stores, so there is very little counter space, and with people being in a big hurry all the time, customers who are next in line put some of their stuff up on the counter before I’m even done with the first customer. An older lady comes up, and is checking out, when another lady comes up behind her, and puts her item on the counter. With how close she is getting with the first customer, I assume they are related, or together, so I just keep doing my job. Customer #1 has just finished paying, and is getting her stuff together, getting ready to leave. While she is doing that, I go ahead and ring up Customer #2’s item. I tell her the total, and Customer #2 looks at Customer #1.)

Customer #2: “Excuse you, can you get out of the way? I’m trying to pay.”

(Customer #1 finishes what she was doing, and without saying anything, walks out the door. I now realizing they weren’t together and start getting annoyed at Customer #2’s attitude towards Customer #1.)

Customer #2: *glares at Customer #1 as she walks away and, when she turns back to me, she says annoyed, and rudely* “Can you believe some people? I don’t understand why people just stand there in the way when people are trying to pay.”

Me: “Well, you know, there is a way around that.”

Customer #2: “Really? What’s that?”

Me: “Patience.”

(She glared at me without saying anything while I handed her her receipt. I turned around and walked away, and then she left. It felt good putting her in her place.)