I swear. Everytime I have had the longest possible day and have nothing left to give I end up grocery shopping at Costco and invariably choose the self checkout because I do not want to interact or small talk because that might actually take me out of this world. Whenever this is the case, a self-checkout employee will swoop down on me like an Osprey hunting a fish and nonconsensually start scanning my stuff and giving me orders. Today I was told to scan my card (duh) and the small-talked at at lightening speed while she counted and recounted my items because she had missed one. My pant leg touched the scale briefly and she told me to "stand back!" because it messed with her scanning. then she called me "hon" and told me " don't worry" it "wasn't my fault" that she got messed up scanning and had to recount my items six times. Halfway through the ordeal, I mustered the courage to say I really don't mind scanning my own stuff, she ignored me.
This reminded me of another time a man grabbed something *out of my hand* mid-scan and took over without asking, hovering behind me to grab stuff out of my cart.
Costco employees, can we please start asking people if they would like help??? I would have said no thank you.