It pisses me off to no end when people are ahead of me at Wal-Mart or another grocery store and write a check for something small, usually under $5.00! First they have to dig through their purse, then they have to get a pen once they find the checkbook, then they have to ask AGAIN "How much did you say?"...after all that, they take two minutes to write the check, asking the date along the way, and sometimes the NAME OF THE PLACE. For fuck's sake, if you don't have $5, DO NOT BUY IT. I'm tired of waiting all day for you to write a check for a pack of cigarettes. GET CANCER AND DIE so I can finish shopping before the perishables in my cart expire! I've even seen a woman pay for A PACK OF GUM (60 cents) with a fucking check. Do people have NO shame anymore? Thank you.

Just out of principle, I'll usually wait behind such an idiot for about 3 minutes, then I'll smash them in the back of the head suddenly, walking quickly out of the store before the store clerk can even get a good description for police. Yes, it's true. I'm not very nice.

get fucking use to it sweetheart

No offense, Metaphysicist.

get fucking use to it sweetheart

You're the 60cent-gum-girl!

Notice how you mention purse, yet you still treat this endemic as if men are guilty too. Only women do this, particularly older women; because women cannot handle money they have conditioned themselves not to carry cash on hand as they understand that they are irrational by their very nature.

When one must write out what one is about to spend, and remembers that it is in the bank where it needs to be, one puts forth more attention to their socioeconomic status. So while it is extremely frustrating, the more you see it the better. There are two positives in this women going against their natural ways and less credit debt being worked up nationally, which means an approach towards a better economy and a monetarily moral society.

If women behaved more like men (responsibility wise) and actually thought about what they were going to buy at the store, made a rough estimate and took five percent more than what they needed in cash (for insurance), made the purchase and kept the change the economic crisis we face might be a little less worse than it is today. Good riddance on these pitiful creatures, they are so unfortunate.

You are all forgetting the obvious fact, to wit, men can be quite needy when it comes to controlling the family bank account, and the poor lesser woman of the house may only have the check-book as a way into the funds. I would still slap them in the back of the head if I had to wait more than three minutes... but just to point that out... I'm VERY sensitive to the financial plight or most women today.

You cannot make coherent sentences.

This only happens in your stupid country. In the rest of the world people use debit/credit cards.

This.

People write checks now because they've already maxed out their 25 credit cards and actually have to *GASP* spend their own money!

But I agree with OP, though I've never had to deal with that at my store. The credit cards irk me enough, anyways; place down their $0.50 newspaper and $1 bottle of water and slap down the credit card without skipping a beat.

Shit, I get embarrassed to hassle people with debit if its under $30.

Society has moved on to credit cards, anyone in a grocery store writing a check just god damn retarded. Get with the times you backwards fucks.

It pisses me off to no end when people are ahead of me at Wal-Mart or another grocery store and write a check for something small, usually under $5.00!

Even better when the asshole decides they need to add it to their check register before they go as well, oblivious to the rest of us behind them. The great thing about this time of year, is that can get the shit beat out of you.

Do you endorse check cards? Is that why you're here?

You can write cheques to fucking stores?

Since when?

Since before debit and credit cards.