Funny

If you purposefully don't use the divider, you shouldn't be allowed to shop there. Also, what the hell does this have to do with race?

Yeah fuck that noise! You're supposed to wait until they accidentally scan the next persons items and then make them get a manager to make the correction like God intended!

Or you can just avoid that and use the divider so the cashier knows when they're done with your items...

"Huhuh you use a thing that makes social interactions in an often stressful and tiring situation a bit easier. You weirdo."

(...?)

Stupid cashiers.. I always put those separators on the belt, but they always stop me from buying one.

Is that a white thing? I do love it, but I don't know if it has anything to do with my race. It makes it easier for the cashier to tell when one person's groceries end without having to pay attention to who is putting what on the belt.

Someone will try to make everything about race.

"You ever notice how _____ people do [insert common, innocuous, rational behavior]..."

I don't get it. I don't want to stand in line longer waiting while the cashier unscans my items from the person ahead's order or unscans the next persons items from my order. They also often fuck it up anyway but still

What? As an Asian American I and my family love that damn stick.

Don't be lumping my flavorful ingredients with some white guys bland crap at the Chinese grocery store.

But seriously everyone should use that thing because it makes the cashier's job easier, faster, and smoother for everyone.

Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.

I don't want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries

Only white people use them? I moved from the PNW down south and I can say they get used much less down here. Haven't paid attention to race though

I just realized I haven't used a conveyor belt checkout since before the pandemic. It's either grocery delivery or self-checkout.

The stick is a universal if you have a cart of groceries, we all need the stick in those times to guide us. The thing that gets me is when I put a hand basket on the belt and the person in front of me gives me the stink eye and slaps the stick between their loose groceries and my contained and obviously separate basket of groceries like I was trying to trick them to pay for my stuff. It’s not just white or old people, though, being a douche is a human quality, not a racial or generational thing.

This is no stick. This is a KUNDENDIFFERENZIERUNGSMODUL

That stick is a fine line between order and chaos.

Black people twitter is such a cesspit.

Throw it in a crowd of white people and watch us fight over it like a pack of yorkshire terriers fighting over a milk bone.

My brother used to say that if you had enough of those dividers you could solve every property dispute because nobody violates that line.

I wouldn't have any problem with not having this stick, but cashiers can't seem to tell that a six-inch distance between my order and the next order is a good place to stop. Then we're all sitting around for an extra couple of minutes while they try to get someone to come and authorize voiding the items.

And bathrooms

The only reason we have sex based bathrooms is because the women's bathrooms used to say colored on them and we never got the building codes changed.

Always struck me as a city thing, not a white people thing.

Maybe things have changed, but in the small town where I grew up, people generally wouldn't bother.

• there would usually be a gap delineating one persons items from the other's anyways

• the person who was professionally scanning our groceries 100% had the expertise to see the gap and comprehend its meaning

• If (I never ever saw it happen, ever) they had grabbed something, someone would have noticed, said "whoops, that's not mine". Nobody would think someone was trying a scam.

I feel like this is an amazing measure of someone's general level of anxiety. Or maybe a measure of how little credit they give the person scanning groceries? Both?

Not totally relevant, but: that little tub of Philadelphia cream cheese is like $8 nowadays. What in the ever-loving fuck? And yet you can still buy a brick of that shit for $1.60. Trying to get cream cheese out of that folded-over piece of foil is certainly annoying, but it's worth paying 5X as much to get it out of a convenient tub instead? Make it make sense.

You're right, from now on I'll wait until they scan the next person's item and then go "ew, god no. you really think I'd buy that garbage?"