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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/SlyDragonCat on 2023-09-17 14:17:57.

I was working the register at the supermarket, the queue was already pretty long. A lady inteded to pay for her shopping with her card, but it was declined. She tried a couple of times, blamed our card reader etc.

I had to call the manager to reassure her that there’s nothing we can do if her card is declined and that she could leave her shopping with us and get another card or cash from home.

She told me that that’s not an option, she’s leaving for the weekend and she needs her stuff now. She cecked for cash and found some, but it wasn’t enough for her entire cart, so I told her I could rescind items until the price was equal to the amount of cash she brought.

She started pushing them towards the register with such force that a bag of potatoes dropped off at the other end. I bend down to pick it up and she had pushed the next one, some flat carton, and it hit me in the shoulder when I came back up and also fell to the floor. I gave her a strange look, picked that one up too, but when I got up to my seat again a bottle hit me in the head that she had rolled over the countertop. I told her to be careful and she told me that’s all my fault and that she had been in a hurry before “we refused to take her card” but now it was even worse and she would be late. She then took her stuff and told us she won’t come here anymore, as if that would be a punishment.