I generally don’t mind it for the same reasons as OP. I had to pop into the store for goat cheese recently and the grocery I went to had removed all their self cashiers. They put a broccoli head on the express lane and he had pretty obvious hyperactivity so he’s throwing it in the air, passing it back and forth between his hands, rolling it up and down the ramp all the while “what is this what’s it for what’re you doing with it why does it exist” and it was intense. I just wanted my overpriced log of goat cheese so I could make my overpriced Basque cheesecake. LOL sweet kid but I didn’t want to have to answer 100 questions. I buy very few foods in boxes, so pretty much anything from the produce department absolutely mysteries the zoomers working there.

My all time favorite though happened around the holidays. I got in a lane with two zoomers, both seemed like they took one too many mood depressants. One broccoli head, one weed whacker mullet. Both big huge kids that looked like they could lift a car each, which didn’t help the scene. The woman in front of me was buying some tomatillos and I already knew I f’d up picking this lane but I figured I would ride it out.

Broccoli head picks up the tomatillos and stares at them FOREVER. Like for a minute and finally asks, “um, like, what is this?” She says “a vegetable called a tomatillo.” He presses some buttons and rings it up as like heirloom tomatoes so they rang up super expensive. Here we go, I thought. “She says, no those range up way too expensive, they’re on sale and should only be a few dollars.”

Broccoli head turns to mullet, “do you know what this is?” Mullet says “I think like green tomatoes.” Broccoli head, “um green tomatoes aren’t in here.” So mullet suggests “just ring them up as another tomato.” She says, “no, they’re on sale and I don’t want to overpay.” They asked her if she knows the code for them. Nope. This goes on and on for like 5 minutes no exaggeration. Finally she says “can one of you go to that display right over there and figure it out?” Finally mullet leaves to go stare at the display for a while.

Manager finally comes over and in two seconds enters the correct code, rings her out. They hand her all her bags. I had like two items and it takes forever to get me out. As I’m paying with my credit card mullets comes back and broccoli head looks in front of him and pulls a back up from the bagging area and says “uh oh” while helplessly holding the bag. Mullet, “what?” Broccoli head “um, this is those tomatoes that one lady wanted.” Rather than snatch them and run to the parking lot to try to catch her, mullet shrugged and went, “well, maybe she,ll come back for them.” I rushed out to the lot to see if I could spot her, no luck. I hoped for those kids’ sake she didn’t come back because she was going to be furious if she did. LOL and I just couldn’t stop thinking of how ultra pissed she was going to be after all that and then get home and not have the one thing she really needed.