25. The Checkout Race

It is very well know by foreigners that you have to speed up when packing your grocery at the checkout in all German's supermarkets and grocery stores.
This is the German efficiency at its climax.

So when I step out from my apartment and had a huge wave of anxiety as I thought I forgot my keys but recover once I checked my bag and that they are in, I walk on the pavement to the nearest supermarket, usually with the vehicules ballet (sounds, smells, and visuals included) a bit stressed by this overwhelming 3 senses show, I enter the dirty and depressing German supermarket, a bit annoyed as there are always shortages, and at the checkout, I need to hurry to place my items on the conveyor belt and then race to put them in my shopping bag in an excessively high speed, otherwise the cashier and the customers behind would curse me, my ancestors and my unborn lineage and look at me like a criminal.
Since Covid, Germany accepted more and more contactless payment so I can pay quickly and then leave the shop, with a life expectancy that might have reduced by a couple of years.

Even if Germans love their good old cash, I guess many of them hate when a customer pay with small change: I saw once a customer pays with dozens of 5, 10, 20, 50 cents coins and another spills their coins on the floor. A nightmare for the impatient German (hmm... pleonasm).