Is there anything more humbling than seeing yourself in the self-checkout camera?

[RitzyMcFitzy]

I sashay out of the house feeling like Margot Robbie and then an hour later catch sight of myself in one of those cameras looking like a bewildered goblin.

I get that theft is clearly a big issue at the self-checkouts, but couldn’t they have considered how detrimental this is to my ego?

Rude.

Me too, but I have more grey hair than my Mam had.

When you video call someone by accident and you are faffing around trying to disconnect the call and this wild haired, saggy faced crazy person pops up on your screen!
Oh…it’s me.

All this stealth boasting about seeing chins. I am AVERAGE HEIGHT. Why am I the only nose up bewildered goblin contestant (sub category - chad troll).

Not a fan of them except for co-ops as they make me feel like a film star 😔😂 The lighting must be good. Go and try them.

Same! 😆

I might buy shares in Co-op - I can sense their profits are about to rocket.

I am very glad that none of my local shops have these at the self service tills (Morrison, Aldi and M&S). I was in an Asda recently and was very shocked to see myself in a camera. I was more a bewildered goblin's ancient mother!

I bet you look like an adorably dainty little goblin.

Our local Asda ones are weirdly flattering, I always have to make an effort not to check myself out too obviously!!

I used to buy clothes from a lovely independent shop. They had a sign above the full length mirror in the fitting room which always made me laugh.

"We feel it is only honest to tell you that this mirror is slightly concave. You may not look as slim in real life. Apologies from the staff."

There's a really haggard old woman on the screen in Sainsburys who bears a slight family resemblance to me. Odd, she's there every week.

I don’t use them anymore for moral reasons. Also because I was myself in a winter coat and hat and I was definitely the person you’d assume was shoplifting. If there’d been a crime on the street the news would have featured my picture wanted in connection too. And why did I look so angry, do I go about looking angry all the time?

Nah, the rudest thing is when you buy alcohol from a manned till and they just SMASH that “clearly over 25” button without even a pretend check. I don’t want to get IDed but at least feign a small amount of confusion just to be polite.

Going to the hairdressers

Agree!
I'd like to also add the photo that my bank takes of me when I authorise a payment through the app.
It has the cheek to label the image as "success"!!
Always makes me depressed and amused in equal parts.

Oh this has made me chuckle.

Thank you.

I have no idea who the old lady is that takes over when I use these things, but I wish she wouldn't.

I'm sure they are made to add 40 lbs and 20 years

Yes, I look horrifically awful on those screens!

One of many reasons to hate Teams.

Humbling is one way of putting it. I call it horrifying myself.

Bewildered goblin 🤣🤣🤣

I mean I look absolutely fucking fabulous except in the hairdresser's mirror, the checkout camera and worst of all, at the end of a line up of people in a landscape photo that makes me look at size 20 when I'm a 12/14. Urgh.

bewildered goblin

Yes - that describes me exactly when I am unfortunate enough to catch sight of myself in one of those cameras! Sometimes I think it can't possibly be me! 😫

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Asda is fine compared to B&Q. There are many reasons to loathe B&Q (not least their baffling approach to store layout and their pathological inability to stock every variant of my requirement except the one I need), but the cameras above the tills are just inhumane. I look like a corpse that has been dragged out of a particularly grotty canal. If i am ever featured in crimewatch, it will be because i accidentally put some solvent in my bag without it scanning properly and now they are hunting a middle aged glue sniffer.