August 2007 Okay, so I haven’t seen it all. I admit it…there are a lot of things in this wide world that I have not seen yet, but I can at least trump the last thing that surprised me…the snail mailed, printed and pasted up work order of my previous blog.

I don’t know about you, but I guess I am “old school” enough myself, that I am getting sick and tired of doing my own checkout tasks everywhere I shop! Give me a break…we are now doing the work of all those employees that got fired due to downsizing and for the same price of the products we are buying. I am thinking we need to start a loud hue and cry to get a discount if we have to do our own bagging and checking out, right?

I was trying to check out at Office Depot the other day and I kept getting stuck in a frustrating loop on their credit card self-help machine. (By the way, if I need self help, I can think of a lot “funner” ways to get it.) So the young adolescent female who was standing there watching me struggle finally said with a smirk on her face, “Duh, you have to press the invisible button on the bottom left of the screen to check out!”

My comment – “Yes, I totally am ashamed that I forgot to turn on my mind reading abilities before I left for your store to spend money to make your paycheck come true, and your company wealthier! Well, duh!”

Believe it or not, the invisible button on the lower left of the screen did the trick and I was self-checked-out in no time at all. A word to the wise – if all else fails on a self check out machine, please DO find the invisible button and push it. It will make your life much easier!