• fading_person@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    I don’t use self checkout because I’m afraid of messing up something and getting judged by people :(

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Aww. :p

      Well, I know this doesn’t help, but you know you’re never going to get over this without messing up a few times, yeah?

      When I learned to sing, I was so overcome with embarrassment that I could barely do it in a big building I knew was empty (I was the closing manager for a while). I only got over that feeling by singing anyway. I would get loud, my voice would crack, I would stop and apologize to the ghosts nearby, and then I’d steel myself and try again. This built a lot of confidence, though. I learned not to fear the embarrassment and eventually stopped feeling it altogether.

      If this matters at all: to the right kinds of people, being a little embarrassed is endearing anyway. I would help somebody learn the self-checkout if they didn’t know.

      • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        okay, nobody cares but sometimes we enjoy the show. like one time we were at HEB and there was this shopping cart these two sorority girls were sharing and they had to scan everything in the right order. like the first two or three minutes we were annoyed but after twenty we were cheering for them every time they got it right

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            5 hours ago

            yeah. they took for-fucking-ever but like after five minutes it became entertaining and the whole line got in on it. you ever seen someone pick up a can to scan it, look at it, then put it back in their cart? but still buy the whole cart?