You know, what is the deal with these self-checkout machines? I scan my item, put it in the bagging area – exactly where it’s supposed to go – and the machine yells, ‘UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA!’ Unexpected? I *just* put it there! It’s not like a rogue avocado rolled in from aisle seven. And then it repeats it, ‘PLEASE REMOVE UNEXPECTED ITEM!’ Oh, I’m sorry, is this a surprise party for my granola bar? Was it supposed to sneak in quietly? It’s like the machine has an attention deficit. It tells me to do something, I do it, and it immediately forgets it told me to do it. It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya. They want us to believe we’re efficient, but they’re just setting us up for public shaming by a robot.
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