At 05:07 PM 1/1/03 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: >I was book-shopping with a friend a few years back when he remembered he had a >discount card for that store. In front of the person at the checkout, he >pulled a large stack of the store's discount cards out of his pocket, picked >one at random from the pile, and handed it to her. She didn't bat an eyelid, >nor was she concerned that he had the cards and I was buying the books. Not >My Problem.
Its very common, if the person in front of you hasn't a card, to loan your card (to a total stranger! gasp!) when you them without. I've also noticed that the checkers now keep a working card to use in these situations. Silly Valley Albertson's reinstituted those cards some months ago, and they have an explicit anonymity box to check. I do think the more amusing 'bin Laden' etc names provide much needed amusement for the stoned data-entry minimum-wage keyboarders eventually entering the data..
