It's been ages since I've had anything happen worth posting, but the other day the SCs were rather ranty at my local warehouse store.
The place was bustling and all of the registers were open (which was a pleasant surprise, really). I've only got two items and I have my son carrying them since I'm hobbling about on my cane. So I aim for the shortest line I see and get ready to wait. Looking around, I see that at the farthest end of the registers are three in a row: A has a long line, C has a long line, but B is wide open! The lines for A and C are just going right past it! Like sheep lined up to go into their pens, they're just following the cart in front of them oblivious to all else.
Well, not seeing a closed sign on the belt, I toddle over to make sure the register's open, leaving my son in the other line, just in case the cashier hadn't had the chance to shut down yet. Nope, he says he's open, so I wave my son over.
That's when the sheep start bleating and hilarity ensues.
Apparently, in the mind of the entitlement whore brand of Sucky Customer, being *close* to a shorter line means you are entitled to jump into it, even if you didn't realize it was shorter until someone else moves into it. An EW in Lane C yelps when she realizes I'm calling my son over to check out and starts insisting that since she was the next one in the next lane over, *she* should be going ahead of me -- even though she's already started unloading a huge cart full of groceries onto the other register's belt! A man behind her in Lane C (with only one thing to purchase) gets behind me, and since my son hasn't quite reached me yet I waved him ahead of me. A man in Lane A sees this and darts out of his line and tries to shove his way past me with his cart just as my son arrives with our items. If I hadn't put my cane out and braced myself, he would have knocked me down and run my son over. He doesn't complain, but he does scowl at me.
So while waiting for the guy ahead of me to finish and then get through my own purchase, the old man behind me kept trying to nudge my kids with his cart, trying to get them to move out of his way so he could get past them (please note, my kids were on the people side of the register, not the cart side, so he had NO reason getting his cart anywhere near them). Old Man backed off once I told him firmly not to touch my kids with his cart again; I didn't even need to threaten, but he was getting looks from the cashier for trying to bully a handicapped woman and her well-behaved little kids, so maybe he felt public opinion wasn't on his side.
All this time, the EW in the other lane keeps protesting loudly how I cut into the line, taking her place, all while the cashier in her lane is completing her purchase. Oh yes, and I should be ashamed of myself, not letting the old man ahead of me.
Yeah, how about no.
The place was bustling and all of the registers were open (which was a pleasant surprise, really). I've only got two items and I have my son carrying them since I'm hobbling about on my cane. So I aim for the shortest line I see and get ready to wait. Looking around, I see that at the farthest end of the registers are three in a row: A has a long line, C has a long line, but B is wide open! The lines for A and C are just going right past it! Like sheep lined up to go into their pens, they're just following the cart in front of them oblivious to all else.
Well, not seeing a closed sign on the belt, I toddle over to make sure the register's open, leaving my son in the other line, just in case the cashier hadn't had the chance to shut down yet. Nope, he says he's open, so I wave my son over.
That's when the sheep start bleating and hilarity ensues.
Apparently, in the mind of the entitlement whore brand of Sucky Customer, being *close* to a shorter line means you are entitled to jump into it, even if you didn't realize it was shorter until someone else moves into it. An EW in Lane C yelps when she realizes I'm calling my son over to check out and starts insisting that since she was the next one in the next lane over, *she* should be going ahead of me -- even though she's already started unloading a huge cart full of groceries onto the other register's belt! A man behind her in Lane C (with only one thing to purchase) gets behind me, and since my son hasn't quite reached me yet I waved him ahead of me. A man in Lane A sees this and darts out of his line and tries to shove his way past me with his cart just as my son arrives with our items. If I hadn't put my cane out and braced myself, he would have knocked me down and run my son over. He doesn't complain, but he does scowl at me.
So while waiting for the guy ahead of me to finish and then get through my own purchase, the old man behind me kept trying to nudge my kids with his cart, trying to get them to move out of his way so he could get past them (please note, my kids were on the people side of the register, not the cart side, so he had NO reason getting his cart anywhere near them). Old Man backed off once I told him firmly not to touch my kids with his cart again; I didn't even need to threaten, but he was getting looks from the cashier for trying to bully a handicapped woman and her well-behaved little kids, so maybe he felt public opinion wasn't on his side.
All this time, the EW in the other lane keeps protesting loudly how I cut into the line, taking her place, all while the cashier in her lane is completing her purchase. Oh yes, and I should be ashamed of myself, not letting the old man ahead of me.
Yeah, how about no.
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