25 Awful Customers That Cashiers Have Met in the Checkout Line

Everyone knows that you meet society’s biggest sickos when you’re working the cash register. While it’s true that most people in the service industry are underpaid and overworked, there’s something about the checkout line that conjures up the worst in people, and cashiers are forced to bear the brunt of it. That’s the only explanation for the guy who put his spare change in his mouth while waiting in line, only to have to spit out coins when it was time to pay. That’s the behavior of someone with sinister checkout-line energy. 

To that end, here are some of the most unhinged customers that Redditors have met while working the cash register…