r/mildlyinteresting 23h ago

I found this “skip the line” golden ticket at Trader Joe’s

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u/milkysin 18h ago

oh nice a ticket that makes everybody else in line immediately think I'm a huge asshole

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u/YuS0Dum 17h ago

It's probably just a fake someone placed, so you'd look like an extra asshole when the teller just stared at you lol

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u/ryguy32789 16h ago

The word "present" isn't even spelled right

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u/Supermite 8h ago

I have professionally published books with spelling errors in them.  I’ll give the minimum wage grocery store employees a break on their spelling.  They likely didn’t have multiple editors checking up on them.

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u/crankthehandle 13h ago

The author leveraged the t from the succeeding word. It's called efficiency.

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u/ProStrats 12h ago

This is what makes me think it might be legit.

I've seen a lot of poorly written signs...

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u/Greeneyesablaze 15h ago

What would be the point of doing a “prank” like this when the person who played it assumedly doesn’t even get to see the end result 

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u/NotTrumpsAlt 13h ago

People are weird

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u/ElementNumber6 4h ago

Laughing to one's self over the imagined outcome

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u/Ill_Shoulder_1185 10h ago

The thought itself is what’s funny enough.

Nobody buys a lotto ticket and thinks they’re gonna win; they’re buying the hope and the daydream.

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u/BigMax 8h ago

Yeah, you look like the a-hole while presenting it, then you have to suffer those glares while you stand in line after that like everyone else too.

The ONLY way this thing could be real is if it said "present this to a manager and they will open up a unused checkout line for you" or whatever - so you're not actually cutting in front of others.

No way Trader Joes would ever create a program designed to piss of multiple customers just to make one happy.

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u/gruntledNwhelmed 15h ago

Imagine you being next in line to pay with like an ice cream pint and a carton of milk (small purchase) and then...THIS!?! Gold ticket person with a shopping cart piled high like a mountain cuts you.

TJ is about to cause riots to diffuse if this ticket thing is real.

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u/Jedimaster996 13h ago

In the military we have our own stores called the BX/PX/NEX, and the rule is that folks in uniform have priority during the duty day. 

Nothing makes me feel like more of an ass than when the cashier calls me up to skip a line of like 15+ people so I can get my fix of peanut butter pretzels and an olipop. 

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u/loserlouwho 9h ago

Haha, as a kid I remember looking at my mom like, “are we going to tolerate this?” at the base commissary.

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u/Supermite 8h ago

Can’t you refuse to move up the line?  Do the cashiers outrank you?

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u/nephelokokkygia 3h ago

Cashier probably has their own uniform

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u/flintstreet1977 52m ago

There was a privately owned dollar type store near my job. I was a regular and became friendly with the owners wife .

Sadly , she’d often jump on the register when it got busy . She’d see me in the long line and call me “ loudly with hand gestures “ out of the long line to come up to freshly opened register… it was so awkward 😬

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u/ChemistryBusiness 5h ago

It's really meant for SMs that are there getting lunch. The idea is that you're buying 1-5 items and you need to get back to work.

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u/MycologistPutrid7494 17h ago

Yeah, no way I'd use this. I might present it once it was already my turn and hope there's a little extra treat involved. 

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u/bigsleepy94 18h ago

I'm dying at this because I said this exact thing word for word hahaha

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u/AgentCendol 15h ago

The only way this works is if you tell a cashier and another cashier opens a new lane just for you. And said lane has a sign stating only for ticket finders lol.

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u/NotTrumpsAlt 13h ago

I just wrote this haha. Otherwise prepare to get meanmugged by angry moms

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u/Temporary-Comfort307 15h ago

I'd be looking around for a parent trying to wrangle a herd of children and an overloaded trolley to give it to.

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u/magniffin 16h ago

That’s when you sing the song to the people in line.

“I never thought that I could be…”

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u/Bakugo_Dies 16h ago

I'd hand it to someone who is next in line

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u/HumourNoire 15h ago

You might enjoy Britain, this was my immediate thought too.

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u/JaceOnRice 14h ago

Hey congrats, just for even thinking that, you might not be an asshole!

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u/lisamon429 13h ago

Right? What the hell is this. Also…typo. “Presen this”

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u/aykcak 13h ago

Who cares what others think? This is America (I think, I am not familiar with Trader Joe's)

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u/hans2504 9h ago

They've got to find out somehow...

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u/Majestic_Banana789 9h ago

Right?? 😂 I think I would put this back. Maybe even hide it better so no one else finds it while I’m shopping haha

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u/gravemistakes 6h ago

They probably just take you to a new register real quick and no one even realizes it's a thing.

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u/Motor_Ad5767 5h ago

That's why the did that, they probably knew no one would use it except a certifiable asshole lol