Witty Rejoinder said:

captain_spalding said:

Neophyte said:

Couldn’t you have just divided it into two lots of $70 worth of purchases, and paid for them separately with the card?

Male brains don’t work like that.

It’s surprising the Coles staff member didn’t suggest it. Or were you keeping mum and just hoping no one noticed you loitering in the self-checkout for half an hour?

It was more like twenty minutes.

And, it wasn’t intolerable. Next to a busy railway station, a supermarket self checkout is about the best observing-humanity location.