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    I was doing my weekly shop at the local supermarket last night and had loaded my things onto the belt and the cashier was about to start scanning my items when this older man (say around 60 i guess) comes up next to me and tries to hand his items to the cashier.

    OM: older man (spoke with a accent I couldn’t place)
    ME: yours truly
    CL: Cashier lady

    OM: I only have 1 thing, I go first? (I note he has 5 items in his basket not 1)
    CL: I’ve already started scanning her items
    OM: (looks at my groceries on the belt) All this yours?
    ME: Yes, and there is a queue you have to go to the end of. (I point to the 5 people waiting behind me)
    OM: But I only have 1 thing
    ME: NO, you have 5, and there is an express lane over there you can use
    OM: too many people, I go here
    ME: then you will have to go to the back of the line.
    OM: (just stands there giving me a sad look)
    ME: It’s is very rude to just push in on people
    OM: (points to the woman behind me) she said I can go next
    ME: OK, and what about the 4 people behind her? Did you ask them if it was ok too?
    OM: Mutters under his breath.

    Meanwhile the cashier has been quietly scanning my items. I leant over the counter and said to her “I figured you can’t say anything to him, so I did it for you”
    CL: Yeah, we can’t, Thanks. He does this all the time

    That comment really pissed me off. Queue jumpers are a pet peeve of mine and knowing he was a serial jumper made me mad.

    She finished my sale wished me a good evening, i wished her one back, turned to the queue jumper and said “And you sir can go to hell”

    Probably not my finest parting remark, but it was Friday, I was tired and chocked up with a head cold, so my brain to mouth filter was off.
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  • #2
    Quoth raw456 View Post

    Probably not my finest parting remark, but it was Friday,
    Probably not, but im sure you said what everyone was thinking.

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    • #3
      Kinda pisses me off that the cashier isn't allowed to tell line jumpers to go to the end of the line. By making 1 customer happy, she'd be making at least 4 customers upset. I don't see the tradeoff here.
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      • #4
        Quoth Mr Hero View Post
        Kinda pisses me off that the cashier isn't allowed to tell line jumpers to go to the end of the line. By making 1 customer happy, she'd be making at least 4 customers upset. I don't see the tradeoff here.
        because that one customer will make a bigger stink about it than the 4 nice customers. Corporate doesn't care, and only sees the one customer throwing a bitch-fit about not getting their way, not the 4 loyal customers who follow the rules. Sucky, but that's why I speak up when stuff like that happens. I make it known that in letting that serial offender get away with it, they've miffed off more than the one customer they'd have miffed off otherwise.
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        • #5
          I hate queue jumpers! I have never put up with them, hardly any people who I've ever witnessed such behaviour with either, or any of the shops I've been to, thankfully. If the cashier telling you that someone else was there first isn't enough, if me saying it in a rather curt tone isn't enough, my 6' 5" boxer friend will send you scuttling to the back of the line, where you belong.
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          • #6
            I thought you handled it well! It's perfectly appropriate to turn off the brain-to-mouth filter in a situation like this! Ha ha, he got smacked down!
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            • #7
              Quoth raw456 View Post
              That comment really pissed me off. Queue jumpers are a pet peeve of mine and knowing he was a serial jumper made me mad.
              They are a serious pet peeve of mine, but I almost never say anything . I wish I could, but I always feel.... silly for wanting to make a fuss over something like that. That, and I worry that the person might freak out in the screamer sort of way.

              Mad to you for saying no!
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              • #8
                I really like that you told him what's up Maybe next time he'll think again about line jumping. Also, it's important to say what we want when we can, right? Since we are so rarely allowed to do so when we're at work
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