Make Yourself Useful!

[jjc927]

Relatively quick story here, but it involves an older woman SC. I was "red lining" outside my register (attempting to bring customers who were ready to check out to my line) when all of a sudden an older woman comes up to me and hands me a red basket with some force. She says: "Here, make yourself useful. Find some place to put this." like I was just standing there to waste time.

But wait, she didn't stop there! I had just finished ringing up a customer and I had two people waiting when she jumps to the front of my line with a bag of M&Ms and goes "Here, ring this up for me." I really should've said she needs to go to the back of the line or find an open register/Uscan register, but sadly I didn't (the other two people in line didn't notice she had done this).

Seriously, who did this woman think she was?

[Sapphire Silk]

Entitlement Whore of the Year.

[GiggityGiggityGoo]

you kind of enabled her....

[Tama]

Yeah, but protesting would probably not have gone well...

Managers being spineless and all.

[Zellie Crescent]

I would've handed it right back to her and told her to wait her turn.

[candyshopgirl]

Well me and mom were at dollar store picking up cleaning stuff for her house, the line was kinda long, me and mom were 2 in line. This woman walks up and stares at me and mom for a few mins. We weren't paying attention, we were talking and she was slowly moving in front of us. I stopped talking and just said Oh I'm sorry we are next, the line is back there. She just got red faced and mumbled something and walked away. I wish that you would have said something, people like that need to be put in their place.

[bainsidhe]

Shame she wasn't forced to wait in line, but I can understand why you didn't press the issue. If the other folks weren't complaining and it was a quick sale, it's easier to ring her entitled-self and get her away from you versus start an argument. Intimidating jerks are hard to deal with.

[Argabarga]

How about YOU make yourself useful lady, to a mortician..........

[Tama]

Or to a bunch of med students who study dead bodies.

[Marmalady]

"Here, make yourself useful. Find some place to put this."

I could have found a place to put it.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I could have found a place to put it.

Likewise. Though I don't know that she would have liked where I put it.

There'd be no question of whether I could put it there. "We'll make it fit!"

[Marmalady]

There'd be no question of whether I could put it there. "We'll make it fit!"

Sideways, preferably

[Jay 2K Winger]

Sideways, preferably

But only after shining it up real nice.

[Marmalady]

But only after shining it up real nice.

You're kinder than I would have been.

[Jay 2K Winger]

You're kinder than I would have been.

Only to the dirt and grime that would have been cleaned off. Not even bacteria deserve to go where we would be putting it.