Now just wait your turn!

So I work in a shop, a petrol station to be precise, and within that shop we sell pretty much everything under the sun and that includes newspapers, as you would expect from a convenience shop. Now I have spoken about these papers, or more the customers who refuse to take the top copy, before and once again they are the basis of this blog post and once again it is the customers who annoy me. I'll set the scene, it's early in the morning, still dark outside, I am serving a customer with fuel, shop goods, whatever they're coming in to buy and I'm probably half way through the transaction when I see him. He's a queue jumper but one of those that is so blatantly obvious that other customers will get annoyed. He'll come in, pick up his paper and because he does this every morning he has the correct change and for some reason he thinks this grants him permission to leave the money on the counter and walk out of the shop. This would be fine if he was at the front of the queue but he isn't, I'm already serving a customer, a transaction that if left to it's own devices would be over within a matter of seconds. It's the same if a customer has put in say £10 worth of fuel, they think that having the correct money in their hand constitutes them the right to jump to the front of the queue and these people are more daring; they'll normally do it two maybe three people in a queue already. And more often than not they've gone over by a penny, so not only do they think they have the right to jump the queue but they think they can short change me, I don't think this is very on but of course I won't say anything in the actual situation because it's just easier to let it go. But do not despair, I've worked out a solution to this problem and so far it seems to be working, it is very simple really, you just don't look at them. For some reason by not looking at the person, this queue jumping correct changer, they don't feel as though they can just jump the queue. Almost as if looking at them is an acknowledgement from me that I'm condoning their actions and wanting them to do it. I can see them there hovering, correct change in one hand, paper in the other (held in such a way they think they're helping by thrusting the price in my face) and at times quite literally shifting their weight from one foot to the other. Well once my peripheral vision picks this up, that's when I start to get some payback, this is when I slow down, especially if I have to fill a bag with shopping. If they want to be ignorant and rude to the other customers and quite frankly to me then when I have a bit of power they will have to wait longer. Now I know what you're probably thinking, why have I just wasted about a minute of your day where you could have been doing other things, reading a proper news story for example, and they only answer I have for you is that I wanted to get this off my chest. It was also an opportunity to get back into blogging, for too long this page has been dormant and some of you may be thinking that is a good thing especially if they only thing I'm entreating you to is a small story (essay) about getting annoyed by customers who let's face it are just trying to spend as little time in the petrol station as possible. But my argument to that is this, I have to be there so you're just gonna have to wait there too, even if it is just for twenty seconds longer than you originally intended.