Complained to boss I offered to help load groceries.

[LillFilly]

Yes. She complained I was 'harassing her' because she had been sitting with her car and a cart full of groceries in the fire lane for 20-min with a 'broken arm' waiting for her husband to come load the groceries. I let her go until she admitted that she was waiting for her husband to DRIVE FROM HOME to her to help her load the groceries in her car! So I said maybe I could help her.

She snapped "Are you gonna load my groceries into your truck and bring them to my house!?!"

I told her no, but I was offering to put them in her car so she could move out of the fire lane, as she really should not be sitting there. She insisted that she wanted HER HUSBAND to help her. So I offered that if she could move her car to a parking space (yes, she was driving, using that arm to hold her cell phone to her ear, writing, getting the baby in the car seat, and flailing it at me juuuust fine, but she COULD NOT use that arm to load groceries!!!) then I would bring her cart over and she would be out of the fire lane. She then demanded my managers number, because she 'considered this harassment' and 'did not appreciate it.' I gave her the number and said stone cold:

"Ma'am, I'm sorry if you feel my offering to load your groceries is harassing, but if you don't move out of the fire lane I will write you a ticket just like I just did to that vehicle back there - and you've been sitting here twice as long as he was."

She got all huffy and moved to a space and I brought her cart over as promised. I wished her a nice day and she yelled back "I'm still calling your manager!!!" As I walked back several people apparently had been watching the show next to their cars and they just shook their heads and said to me "What the hell was her problem?" And "Wow; so offering to help is harassment now?" And "Keep breathing, I'm sure your day will get better!"

I'm just trying to figure-out how she got the groceries in her cart in the first place! I also feel REEEALLYY BAD for the poor guy that got suckered into marrying her! My Manager just laughed when I told her to expect a phone call and said "Yeah, you gotta stop being so nice to people!" I said yeah, I'd probably get a better reaction if I was out there kicking puppies!

[bainsidhe]

And then people wonder why everyone hesitates to offer a lending hand. She was horrid.

[Mr Hero]

You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

[AyreBiskits]

no good deed goes unpunished

**hugs**

[chainedbarista]

wow; she needs hubby to load it up for her? why not just have him there to begin with? she's not just an ew, she's a stupid ew.

[BaristaTrav]

no good deed goes unpunished

Ahh.. so you're married too?

[BowserKoopa1]

Ah yes, I remember way back whe I used to be a bagger and would help people out to their cars and load groceries. Most of them were nice, a few even tipped. But I did have a few people who leave without so much as a "thank you" and don't even look at you with a smile. 1 lady was so mean and nasty, she didn't say a word to me, and what's worse she had 2 carts full! The very second we get to her car, she unlocks the trunk and then goes and sits in her car, locking all the doors like she was afraid I was gonna do something. After I get done loading her groceries and tell her to have a nice day, she literally almost runs me over as she backs out of her parking space and then almost peels out of the parking lot as she leaves.
This is 1 of the reasons I decided I didn't want a job as a bagger anymore. I think its just rude for people to not thank you, or even acknowledge you since you're doing a favor for them.

[tollbaby]

I actually had a bagger INSIST on helping me to my car with the cart once... guy was watching me suspiciously the whole time, and finally when I got to my car, he said, "wow... you actually did drive here!". I asked him what he meant. He assumed that because I lived at a certain building, I was one of the cart thieves who plagued the store LMAO

[Darkforge]

have some cake, it makes everything better

If I'd been injured I'd have loved your help with my groceries.

stupid EW's breaking the law and taking up fire lanes

[Kristev]

Reminds me of my time as a cart-pusher. A working death sentence, believe me. Saw that same old story repeated nearly every day.

[AyreBiskits]

Ahh.. so you're married too?

LOL, ya. that's actually my husband's favorite saying.

[Mr. Anubite]

And then people wonder why everyone hesitates to offer a lending hand. She was horrid.

That’s not the worst of it. I read a news article a few months ago about a woman suing the man who pulled her out of her burning car.

She claimed he injured her arm

[Cazzi]

That’s not the worst of it. I read a news article a few months ago about a woman suing the man who pulled her out of her burning car.

She claimed he injured her arm

I bet he wishes he'd left her there now!

[underemployeed]

You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

And that is the reason I do what I want because I figure the punishment is the same.

That’s not the worst of it. I read a news article a few months ago about a woman suing the man who pulled her out of her burning car.

She claimed he injured her arm

Well at least in the US I know at least some areas if not the whole country have laws to try and protect "good Samaritans" but even then people are better off to leave you be. Actually, I guess most 911 dispatchers aren't supposed to tell you how to do CPR if you don't know because of the legal issues if you do it wrong or they say the wrong thing, pretty much just leave whoever to die if help isn't close by, kind of sucks

[MaseMan]

I hope she at least bought some decent liquor, sounds like her husband is going to need it after that one.