Checkout Drama

The inevitable delay when you are in a hurry, caused by the clown in front of you having issues with paying for their things. Very common in Walmart and 7-11, less prevalent in Home Depot or Cosco.

(drama person, pick one or more)
| why WON'T it take my card, I got all kind of money on it...
| OK, then try THIS credit card...
| Muthafucker, that IS my PIN number ...

(you)
Aw Jeezus H Christ, I don't need this Checkout Drama. FML.

Checkout Drama by OldFart77 July 11, 2010

checkout dick 

Male. Serves people on the checkout/cashier/desk at a supermarket or department store. Opposite of checkout chick.

a) "My boyfriend's a checkout dick...."
b) "That checkout dick was SO cute!!!"

checkout dick by Candini January 4, 2008

checkout tart 

Someone who works in a supermarket on the checkout, usually a girl, but can also be used as an insulting term for a male checkout worker. Similar to Scanner Monkey

'Jack got a job at the supermarket, he's such a checkout tart!'

checkout tart by Temet Nosce December 14, 2006

Checkout Catfished 

When you get behind someone with few groceries in line and someone else comes along and says "I'm with them" and piles a bunch more groceries on. You saw a glimpse of one shopper, but what you got once you were in line was something entirely different.

"Aww man, that lady just jumped in with a whole other cart"
" Checkout Catfished ..."
"Yup"

Checkout Catfished by bobbyoldschool August 27, 2013

Checkout Stick

A term to describe someone or something as useless as a grocery checkout lane divider.

"Dont talk to Ethan, he's being an absolute checkout stick right now"

Checkout Stick by atvmike73 October 10, 2019

checkout chick 

1. An underpaid worker in a supermarket etc who is worked into the ground and treated like a slave by higher ranking supermarket workers, who are usually in their 40's and are under qualifyed for the real world.

Usually required to work up to 10 hours in a supermarket either all at once or by split shifts, and are forced to act greatful for their existance and act like slave labour is the best thing since sliced bread.

2. Someone who is always happy in any given job.

1. God, that checkout chick hates the supermarket.
2. Lucy is always acting like a f**king checkout chick.

checkout chick by Nicolexx December 20, 2006

checkout-counter coercion 

A.k.a. "point-of-sale pressure". Similar to second-generation enabling, this term refers to a comparably-shameless mooching-strategy that's used on someone when you're both out shopping; it involves knowingly carrying a cancelled/expired credit card or a debit/cash/gift card that has no/insufficient funds on it, and then attempting to use said worthless plastic to pay at the checkout. Well, naturally, when the clerk swipes your card and then regretfully announces that the card was rejected, this awkward and "unexpected" delay creates an acutely-humiliating situation, especially if other shoppers are present. So you first make a great show of looking shocked/flustered/embarrassed, then hastily turn to your shopping-buddy and ask meekly but urgently, "Oh, I'm so sorry --- I forgot/didn't realize that my card wasn't gonna work this time! Do you think you could pay for my purchases just this once, and I'll pay you back as soon as I can?" And then of course, your hapless companion finds himself in a "hanged if you do and hanged if you don't" dilemma --- he can either get stuck with paying off a huge store-bill, or look like an unfeeling jerk in front of all those other customers if he indignantly refuses, especially since it would mean that you would then have to crimson-facedly tiptoe all around the store again to put all of your purchases back on the shelves, plus it would also mean that any money that your friend used for gas to take you shopping will have been wasted, also.

I prudently side-step any incidents of checkout-counter coercion by always making sure to gently-but-firmly tell my shopping-companions beforehand that (1) they will be totally "on their own" about coming up with the funds to pay for their purchases, and (2) I will **not** refund their gas-money if they're unable to obtain their desired items.

checkout-counter coercion by QuacksO August 7, 2018