The supermarket I usually use has a "baskets only" lane, but doesn't specify how many items you can have. I naively assumed that all express lanes were the same, but found out to my cost that they were not. On my first visit to the supermarket across the park from where I now work, I joined the express lane with 11 items, only to get sternly told
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Wow. Things are very different on the Island. The shop assistants much stricter. And more grammatically correct.
I regularly use the basket-only lane even when I have been too lazy to take a trolley and what is technically a trolley's-worth of goods has been precariously stuffed/balanced in the basket. No-one has told me off yet.
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I think that if you've lugged around an over-laden basket, you deserve some bonus seconds added to your timer, as a reward for not getting in everyone's way by standing with your trolley entirely blocking a whole section as you dither endlessly over what to buy.
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I might have found Applied Maths at A-level rather more interesting had we studied queues and traffic, rather than boys throwing balls and men riding up and down in lifts. (I liked Pure Maths, though... although I fear that I've forgotten absolutely all of it now.)
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The fact the supposedly fast lane is not fast, however, needs to be looked at!
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