Warbler said:
40 items? If she had that many items, the sales clerk should have told her that she couldn't use the express lane. I can understand sales clerks letting customers slide if he/she is just a few items over, but 40? That's just silly.
The problem, of course, is that they combine the express lane with the cigarette lane, so every smoker, no matter how many items they have, will be going through it.