Long lines were suppose to be a thing of the past once our neighborhood supermarket installed a self-serve checkout counter.
Customers easily figured it out -- except for the woman at the front of my line. In it's irritating computer-generated voice, the machine kept reminding her to take one item after another out of the scanning zone before she could check the next item. There was a constant..
"Move .... your .... produce" and " Move ... your ...milk" and so on.
Everyone in the growing line was getting restless, but even we had to laugh when she left a bag of dinner rolls on the scanner and the machine commanded,
"Move .... your .... buns."