I'm with ya', Bobert ol' buddy.

Drives me nuts, watching someone else stand in front of me watching the clerk scan grocieries for five minutes, and they don't even open the checkbook until they are given a total. It is just plain inconsiderate. I think it does seem to usually be women--but remember that in a grocery, more shoppers of quantity will be women, women usually carry the checkbooks, and so women are more likely to be writing a check. Men with checkbooks may be just as bad.

These days I generally use a debit card, but the check book is out, the card is out, the check register is open, and the date and store name are already written in by the time I start checkout. If I am going to write a check, I will have completed everything but the amount and signature before I get to the clerk. It is simply common courtesy in my book.

Saint Janie