"bert" wrote in message ...

But the self checkouts insist on talking to you, and saying Goodbye in the most
irritating voice imaginable.

That's clearly a matter of taste. Pre-covid I often used to say "goodbye"
back to them, using exactly the same inflection. But there seems rather
less point nowadays, when wearing a mask in an otherwise empty supermarket
at 7.00 a.m.


michael adams

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