Do Not Be THAT Woman

Yesterday I went to Target, as usual. I might just be considered a "regular" at Target. That's besides the point. I just needed a few things, so I grabbed one of those flimsy red baskets that you carry. Usually, this is how it works - I take one of those baskets, thinking I'm only going to get a few items...then an hour or so later I'm forced to the checkout line because my basket is now to heavy for me to carry. Well, yesterday was one of those very rare days that I really just had those few items in the basket. I get in line behind a middle-aged woman. She had been shopping for awhile obviously because she had a LOT of stuff overflowing from her cart. Probably at least twenty plastic bags. But it seems that she is almost done with the scanning and bagging process - or so I thought - so I proceeded to set my twelve or so items on the conveyor. Just as the cashier announces her total, the woman hands her a stack of coupons. I sigh. Surely it won't take long to scan them though. She scans the first two or three, then has some problem with the third coupon. The cashier holds the coupon closer to read it, then she asks the woman if she bought the item. The woman shrugs. So the cashier starts searching through all of the plastic bags in the woman's cart to see if the item is in there. The woman just stands there. I sigh again. I'm trying to give the woman the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was just a simple mistake. Finally, the cashier stops searching through the piles of bags. She tells the woman that she doesn't think she bought the item and hands the coupon back to her. The woman never says anything. The cashier goes back to scanning. Two or three more coupons in, the cashier encounters another problem. Same situation. I sigh loudly, still trying to give the woman the benefit of the doubt as she just stands there watching the cashier dig through her mountain of plastic bags to find the questionable coupon item. No luck. She hands the coupon back to the woman, to which the woman takes it without saying a word. Next coupon. The scanner, once again, does not detect that the item has been purchased. Ok, now this is getting ridiculous. Apparently, this woman has handed the cashier a stack of coupons for items to which she may or may not have actually purchased. The woman behind me sighs. Finally, by about the fifth nonusable coupon, the cashier has stopped searching through the bags and if the coupon doesn't register just hands it back to the woman. So, for all you coupon-users, please use only the coupons to which items you have actually bought. Do not be THAT woman.