Source: u/Portarossa on Reddit, April 7, 2020.
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'Unexpected item in bagging area.'
It's not unexpected, you digital fuck. You literally just told me what it is. It's right there on the screen. I did the wavy-wave, you did the bleepy-bleep; up until the point where you decided to have an electronic stroke, things were going exactly according to plan. What you mean is that you haven't been programmed right. Don't go putting this on me, like I've somehow gone out of my way to surprise you. I've got places to be, man. I can't be playing hide-the-actual-salami with the Terminator's younger, shittier cousin.
Oh, and now you've sent for backup. Well done. Now I have to deal with a human person who thinks I'm either an imbecile or a thief for not being able to work what's effectively a bathroom scale with delusions of grandeur for the fourth time.
I bought just one cooked chicken the other day. Being in a hurry I scanned it, placed it on the output area and hit pay now.
Machine said to wait for help, so I went to another and repeated the process with the same result.
When the operator came, I think I saw a video of myself scanning the chook quickly play back. So I guess either it didn't get to recognize my face, or thought I was scanning something else.
Now I'm intrigued and will see if I can do it again some time.