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.
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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