I stopped at my local Tar-zhay this evening on my way home from work to pick up a few things. There were 2 regular lines open and 1 express (<10 items). I had a hand basket and maybe about 15 items so I got on the shorter of the 2 regular lines. There was 1 woman paying, another with her stuff on the belt and her cart just at the end of the counter, and then 1 other woman before me. The first lady finished, and the 2nd moved her cart up, but the woman in front of me did not move up, leaving about 5 feet of space between herself and the end of the counter. Oh, and she was talking on her cellphone, describing whatever she was holding in her hand (gloves, I think) to the person on the other end. I was just starting to think to myself, Are you on line or what? when she apparently decided against purchasing her item. So she laid them between the computer and pinpad on the closed register next to us and walked off. I was going to pick them up and give them to the cashier but my basket was kind of heavy so I wanted to put it down first.
At this point, another woman with a cart had come up behind me, and I could see she had been eyeing the express lane (which had a fairly long line) and the other lane, but apparently decided on my line. She had 2 fairly small items in the front basket of the cart. I put my stuff up on the belt, and put my basket on the stack at the end of the counter (there's a space for them there), and then the woman behind me moved her cart off to the side behind the closed register in front of the one the other woman had left the gloves on and walked away. I thought maybe she was going to grab something real quick but then I saw her walking out the door.
By now someone else was behind me and the abandoned cart was next to her and I couldn't grab the gloves without moving one of them, and I hadn't totally decided the cart lady wasn't coming back yet. (It was after I turned around at this point that I saw her at the door.) So I didn't get the gloves and I felt a little bad cuz I hate that.
But I was looking at hand cream and I looked at one tube that was in the wrong place; I started to put it back where I picked it up from but then looked down and saw the little display box it came from a few shelves down so I put it back where it belonged. So, guess my karma evens out...
At this point, another woman with a cart had come up behind me, and I could see she had been eyeing the express lane (which had a fairly long line) and the other lane, but apparently decided on my line. She had 2 fairly small items in the front basket of the cart. I put my stuff up on the belt, and put my basket on the stack at the end of the counter (there's a space for them there), and then the woman behind me moved her cart off to the side behind the closed register in front of the one the other woman had left the gloves on and walked away. I thought maybe she was going to grab something real quick but then I saw her walking out the door.
By now someone else was behind me and the abandoned cart was next to her and I couldn't grab the gloves without moving one of them, and I hadn't totally decided the cart lady wasn't coming back yet. (It was after I turned around at this point that I saw her at the door.) So I didn't get the gloves and I felt a little bad cuz I hate that.
But I was looking at hand cream and I looked at one tube that was in the wrong place; I started to put it back where I picked it up from but then looked down and saw the little display box it came from a few shelves down so I put it back where it belonged. So, guess my karma evens out...
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