Retract your Claws, Pussy! (cat)

#1 in the series 'Douchebag Shoppers'

I cannot understand why some people will absolutely SNATCH their grocery bags from my hand rather than let me set it down upon the bagging area first.  It's as though that stainless steel bagging area (which I clean and disinfect multiple times daily, btw)  is the one place where their groceries may pick up germs or something.  I bet these folks don't bother to wash their fruit & veg, so long as the bag it was packed in went directly from my hand to theirs.

This frantic grabbing action often leads to me being wounded by a customers dirty, vulture-like talons.  I shit you not - I have had a grabby customer scratch my hand so deeply once that infection ensued.  

And this despite my using anti-bacterial hand sanitizer after the wounding.

I cannot help but squeak out, or yelp, depending on the viciousness of the attack & severity of the resulting tear in my flesh.  Yes, I said 'attack', because that's what if feels like when I get one of these old crows literally clawing the bags out of my hand.  I have yet to have someone actually apologize with any degree of sincerity, even when they have drawn blood!

Seriously people, if you hurt someone bad enough to draw blood, even a little blood, you should fucking well apologize!

When I get one of these snatchers I often try to distract them for a fraction of a second so that I can let go of the bag before they get to it.  Sometimes I will speed up or slow down depending on what seems to shake their rhythm.  But these people are like cats playing with string, determined to claw the living shit out of that string, but the string is my HAND. 

Bag Snatching customer, YOU are a Douchebag Shopper.