I conducted a highly scientific experiment last week, visiting three large Twin Falls supermarkets. There I tested the theory that the checkout counter line in which you are standing is always the slowest. Everybody thinks so, but everybody is wrong. Turns out it was only the slowest nine out of 10 times. In the other case, some woman pushing a grocery cart laden with 10 gallons of raspberry sorbet got into the queue at another checkstand behind a guy who chose to balance his checkbook right there and then. I paid for my purchases and stood there and watched as all that sherbet melted in little puddles around the lady’s new Nikes/Steve Crump, Twin Falls Times-News. More here.

Question: How do you pick a checkout line at a grocery store?