1 to 8 items MEANS 1 to 8 items!

There's an express line for a reason.

When I'm standing there with 1 bag of oranges and the person in front of me throws down 21 items (yes, I counted) there's nothing left for me to do except wait in aggravation.

I think the only plausible explanation could be that the poor person didn't know how to count, but when the haggling started over the American exchange rate, I knew that wasn't the problem.

I feel petty complaining about this, but come on... 1 or 2 items over, sure.. I can sympatize, but 13?

I'm finished ranting.

there was a story in the paper here recently about a woman who beat up another woman cause she had more than the stated number of items it cracked me up

how bout this for ya.

Man Says He Shot Neighbor For Mowing Lawn Too Often

Well.. a violent reaction is by no-means justified (pretty much in any situation) but there's really nothing anyone can do about it. Once they're in those little aisle-ways it would be a lot more inconvient to ask the person to step out.

And this would be after they've already laid down their +8 items on the belt-way.

Hmm.

hahaha my best friends neighbor use to mow his lawn at 6am every saturday...wed be hungover as hell and there he is mowing. he also vacuumed his lawn. i shit you not. he had the perfect lines in it like a baseball field.

owowowowow...don't make me laugh. cursed food posioning.

I've always believed an aceptable response in these kidns of circumstances is to grab a magazine from the racks next to the counter, roll it up, and beat him on the nose with it like a naughty little puppy.

If only it were more acceptable to train people the way you do kitties, with a spray bottle. It doesn't hurt, is non-toxic and makes you not want to do the bad thing again.

A version of this would be to sneeze on them, or their produce.

Sneezing on other people's food (or even in public) in Toronto right now is not the best idea.

I do like the spray bottle idea though.

When they're not looking just take items and put them in the rack beside the aisles...see if you can get them down to 8 items

Do they freak about it in Kazakstan?

Lol. You must live in Canada now.

id like to shoot all the people that park in the fire lane at hospitals. im the only one allowed to do it damn it!!!

my neighbor used to do the same thing. during early fall or summer, if a leave would land on the lawn he would run out and pick it up. he had this white fence to keep people out. if a baseball or anything went in we could not get it back, except when he had a garage sale, but we would steal them back anyway. my grandfather used to do the same thing. i would go their and leave with atleat a dozen balls

Here's what I do:

I tap them on the shoulder, point to the sign saying 8 (or however many items the limit is) items or less, point to their stuff, and start grabbing things of theirs and throwing them into the next checkstand until they're down to the limit. Then they're forced to go retrieve their items, and I can get on my merry way.

Sucker punch the person and go ahead of them.

This also is a good idea.

The registers at the express lanes should have an alarm that goes off anytime more than the allowable number of items are scanned. Then everyone behind the person who violated the express lane item policy should be allowed to deliver one swift kick to the pants of the violater.