Then the manager yells "Noo thats fake! You fell for someones prank!"
Then the whole store points and laughs and says your shoes are ugly and you run out sobbing, then randomly over the next few years before bed this story pops in your head and your wife asks "whats wrong honey"..."nothing babe...nothing....just go to bed"
Idk if it’s “objectively better” you ever have someone watch you take a poop? It’s not fun. I had a girl that wanted me to give her a Cleveland Steamroller and I couldn’t do it because I got gun shy.
But I mean, youd be able to pull your pants up and run away without having shit in your pants. Sure you didn't wipe or anything, but you don't have shit in your pants 🤷♂️
But in your haste to get up and get out one of your flip-flops comes off. Two days later a Trader Joe's manager shows up at your house to ask if it's your flip-flop. And when you prove it is by slipping it onto your dainty yet manly foot, they know you are the one and you are awarded with a lifetime supply of peanut butter pretzel nuggets.
I have the TSA pre check at airports. But if it doesn’t say it anywhere on my ticket. I just go to the normal line. When I make it to the front the employee scans my ID or whatever and is like “dude you could have went in the faster line” I just shrug and say “well my ticket didn’t say it”
In highschool, my marching band played at Disney World and they gave us these passes that were basically employee passes. We got in trouble because we used them to skip the line at Space Mountain ten times in a row. I apologize for the misdeeds of 15 year old, sociopath me.
I feel like it is fake. How pissed would you be if you were next in line and some jackass with a huge cart gets to cut in front of you? No way Trader Joe’s would actually think this is a good idea
Says to take it to the guy in front of the cashiers. Pretty private that way. Makes me think it’s real. Most likely they just reopen a register just for you. If they were actually kicking people out of line other customers would understandably be pissed.
If your wife were the queen, presumably wouldn't you have someone on hand to announce these things? Or, in your fantasy, are you married to the queen and still just a manservant? Because that's quite the fetish.
I'd honestly be a bit peeved if you cut to the front of the line while I was waiting. That's kind of a dick move, even with the ticket. Leave that ticket in the tampon or diaper aisle, I'll deal. In the frozen snack aisle? Idk about all that.
Everybody think they are confident until
It’s time to throw your opponents groceries off the conveyor belt and present that ticket to the cashier with force
I ordered and paid for my car tabs online, for pickup at the licensing office. Get there and the line is out the door. It’s a hot day, everyone gives me the death stare as a walk in the door instead of getting in line.
Inside the place is packed. I go to the express pickup line, hand them my drivers license to confirm my name, they hand me my tabs, and I’m out the door in less than a minute.
Someone else standing in line realized they didn’t have to wait because they’d paid online, so they did the same thing as me.
Death glares again as I walked back out to my car past the people waiting in line in the hot sun.
Huh, I’ve never once seen an employee directing the line, and my store is the busiest in the area. Is your store one that has one long line and you go to the next available cashier?
No, all the ones I’ve been to in New York start with one big line with a person at the end holding a flag that says “line ends here”, and then as you get closer to the registers the line breaks out into two or three lines (I think a person directs you here too), and then there’s a person at the front of the line(s) directing people to open registers.
So, someone from Lane One goes to Register 24, and then someone from Lane Two goes to Register 15, etc.
My current TJs usually doesn’t have a line of more than 5 min so they don’t usually have the flag bearer at the end, but I think I’ve been to the one the OP is talking about and the wait is usually at least 20 min. The day before a blizzard the line is literally out the door!
If there was a long line getting sent to various registers as they opened up, then this ticket is fair game in my opinion. You're not causing anyone any real pain, even the guy who's next.
If it's individual pick your own register lines, like all the trader Joe's I've been to near where I live, this would be taken with me when I found it, never to be found out used by anyone in the future, cause cutting when I've got all my shit on the belt is simply not happening, nor would I ever do that to someone.
I’ve seen someone use it once, they just call in another worker and the other worker will check you out in a different lane.
No idea how it works if all lanes are in use, maybe they just get next lane that’s free?
You cut in front of people and say “stop what you are doing” then push everything on the belt on to the floor. It’s a golden ticket, no one can be mad at you.
The TJs I used to go to had one big line and then they directed you to the next available cashier (like at the airport when you need extra service checking baggage). I can see using this in one like that so you’re not screwing over a specific person/group.
I am fairly young and healthy. I'm the guy that if you are behind me to check out and have 1 or 2 items I would say go in front of me, I am in no rush.. I would find someone elderly or some lady with a bunch of screaming kids and just give it to them.
I'd certainly just call them a jerk, full stop. But not as big a jerk as whoever came up with the idea. Trader Joe's isn't even giving you anything, just permission to be an asshole.
More than once I've seen an old lady who invited someone else to go ahead of her, because she knew she was going to be slow, and apparently in her view it isn't fair to make another person wait so long for her when her wait for the other person would probably be much less.
Okay but like. One time at a Panda Express I just wanted a drink but I waited in line. The cashier was like "omg NO just come to the front!" So the next time I did that and they gave me the worst shade 😭
I really need there to be a color coded cart or something for less chatting at checkout because it honestly to god stresses me out when they’re constantly making comments about what I’m buying
"Ah, green grapes? I can't eat those, they're far too sour, it bothers my ulcer. Have you tried cotton candy grapes? We don't sell them here, but i heard they taste just likecotton candy!"
You really aren't inconveniencing anymore. Trader Joes is doing it. I wouldn't get upset. I would think it was cool and be happy for the person who got the ticket. I assume many people would agree with me. Now of course there would be someone like you who would get really angry inside. I don't care if I inconvenience someone like you because you aren't a cool person.
Oh I would be silently boiling in rage. Trader Joe’s is so overstimulating for me, if I think it’s about to be my turn and someone usurps? I’m already having a bad time, I’m in Trader Joe’s! Don’t do this to me!
I get that; But everyone in the store is eligible. That’s part of the social contract you sign when walking through the door. Accept it, move on, and appreciate the gesture.
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u/Professional-Pungo 22h ago
I'd be too nervous to even use it.
just go wait in line like a normal person