Ive seen this before and have actually started doing this. Though i havent done it recently because im in a different country now that doesn’t speak english so i cant communicate very well with cashiers :(
Cashier: “The Dubai chocolates are my absolute favorite.”
My broke ass: “Ok well have a nice day.”
Good thing is that you can find them for cheap now. After the hype died down it’s becoming just another chocolate filling. And it’s tasty - it’s a crunchy pistachio cream, would have been awesome without the “Dubai” name
Glad I’m not the only one being put off by the name!
When I broke my ankle and was seeing the ankle doctor a lot, they made me see their x-ray tech every time I came by, which was nigh weekly at the time. One of those times, it was something like 1pm and she was complaining that she hadn’t had lunch yet.
At the time my wife was still trying to figure out how to take care of me with my physical limitations, so she’d send me on my way with a backpack full of provisions, including fig bars for snacks. However, it was just a doctor’s visit, so I didn’t need many snacks. As such, I offered the technician one of the fig bars. At first she was hesitant, but after I showed her it was still sealed, she accepted and apparently enjoyed it.
The tech was there every day, but she had different assistants every time I came by. After the fig bar, every time I saw her she told the assistant of the day various versions of “that’s him! That’s the guy who helped me when I missed my lunch!”
Made me feel damned good about myself.
I think some of the dissent in the comments fail to consider some of the nuances in this interaction. If this specific kind gesture isn’t appealing I have two alternatives to suggest.
I keep a bunch of bottles of water in my backseat and two in my glovebox to hand out to people asking for help at traffic lights and such.
Goodwill and other thrift stores generally have books for pretty cheap. Easy to fill a shopping bag for $20. I mostly aim for beginner level novels and young adult fiction and put them in the free neighborhood libraries. Satan knows we need more children reading.
Shit, I just realized, I rather do that 100 times more than donate to a cause so someone else gets a tax break
If they ask if you want to round up for charity, always say no. You don’t need to fund their tax write offs.
:)
I do something similar! For Christmas, someone got me a giant pack of Reese’s Cups. I kept it in my trunk.
When I order my groceries online, I tell the person loading them into the car to grab a couple when they are done. It makes me happy as much ad it makes them happy.
This only works in winter time for obvious reasons.
This is cute, gonna keep that one in my back pocket for when I want to make a deposit at the karma bank
I’m going to completely forget about it until I’m showering five hours after the situation presented itself and then feel bad that I missed my chance to brighten someone’s day.
I think doing it for positive karma might invalidate the karma gain.
Nah, if you wanna make it big in today’s karma market’s, you gotta be a shark.
I feel like the kind of people who post pleasant fantasies like this have never worked retail because oh my god no, please no do not do this. Not only are you slowing down the line and forcing someone who’s trapped there to interact socially beyond the scope of their job, there’s a 100% chance I lie to you about my favorite candy and I’m gonna throw away anything you give to me (if I’m even allowed to accept it, which nowhere I worked retail would have ever allowed that kind of liability) in case you’ve wiped something on it.
Creeps have ruined this kind of spontaneity, and until we fix society in general it’s not coming back. It’s a nice thought but please let it stay a thought.
It also depend where you buy stuff and how your community is, eg: here cashiers will occasionally tell you “hey, don’t buy that, this one is much more cheap” and after doing the math it actually is cheaper for me, always, so yeah, it depends where you live.
You live in a big city? Hell nah, it won’t happen
You live in a village or little city? Yep, you are good
How about a healthy snack
How about we don’t judge others for a sweet treat?
They got a pretty sedentary job. Much better to offer them a healthy snack instead
When I was a cashier at a gas station it was anything but sedentary. Had to clean the store, stock stuff, lift a lot of heavy things and walk A LOT 10,000 steps was a minimum
Sure, bro. Go offer a cashier an apple and watch the remaining light behind their eyes fade as you receive the world’s largest eye roll. Please report back!
An apple is a great snack indeed! Tasty, healthy and better for the environment as well
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Unless it’s one of the very few places that lets them sit down, I would say it’s way less sedentary than the average office job. You clearly have never worked as a cashier, and possibly never with the public…
You know you can just tell them they are doing a great job and to have a great day without the creepy, flirting bit, right? You can be nice to people and express gratitude and make people smile without bribing them with cheap candy as though you’re trying to slip into their DMs.
Especially when I’m having a rough day, I do not want some random showering me with pity treats when I’m just trying to make it to the end of my shift.
Not every kind gesture is flirting, my fellow cephalopod. Sometimes people do nice things to be nice. Telling someone that you hope their day goes well/improves is kind but it can feel insincere when it’s stranger to stranger. Something small like a favorite candy bar is a more intentional way to do something nice
🕵️📕🦋 is this [genuine kindness] flirting?
Yes, I do genuinely agree with you that, especially in the context of this post, most nice gestures like this aren’t flirtatious at all. I’m simply trying to point out that there are people who work front line jobs and who have bad days that aren’t perfectly attuned to social cues and gestures out in public and interpret social situations in diverse ways.
I just think that the risk of coming off as insincere if you say something nice is way lower than the risk of coming off as a creep and making someones bad day feel worse.
Please stay nice
