Irritations While Out Shopping Yesterday

[LUVMYTINK]

Thank you! Gosh, I didn't think so many here would think I was rude for slightly bumping the woman with her cart. There was no one ahead of her so she wasn't penned in, she just chose not to pull her cart ahead (which would be common courtesy) so I could start unloading my groceries as well. If I would have waited until she was completely finished, then I would have been holding up the line behind me as well.

But, doh! I keep forgetting this is the Dis.

Accidentally? No!

Deliberately? Yes!

This isn't a DIS thing--it's common sense.

If you injured her--you would have held up the line even more.

The "common courtesy" thing to do...when someone is in your way...is to say "Excuse me, please. Would you...." Even my 2yo can do that.

I have nerve damage on my entire lower right side of my body from the hip down. Any kind of "accidental" bump to move me forward, no matter how light of a bump is was would cause extreme pain to me.

You can't tell by looking at me that I have this disability so you can't really assume that if you just "oops" bump a person to make them move you aren't gonna hurt them.

 

[manning]

If you push my cart into me for any reason you're going to get a dirty look. You may get more than that too.

No, she is going to get a push back!!!

As a side note, you notice when someone who knows another language they pull the "don't speak english" routine.

My wife is polish and speaks polish. Someone pulled that on her and started to speak polish. Well needless to say it got interesting.

 

[Inigo]

Thank you! Gosh, I didn't think so many here would think I was rude for slightly bumping the woman with her cart. There was no one ahead of her so she wasn't penned in, she just chose not to pull her cart ahead (which would be common courtesy) so I could start unloading my groceries as well. If I would have waited until she was completely finished, then I would have been holding up the line behind me as well.

But, doh! I keep forgetting this is the Dis.

If anyone were so aggressive and rude as to hit me with the cart, they would be hit back in return by my cart.

It doesn't sound like you have any courtesy what-so-ever. I guess it's because you're old and feel entitled, but that's not allowed. (I make the age comment because you're a grandmother. I hope you never take your grandchildren places when you're this rude.)

I'm so tired of rude people bumping me on purpose with their carts, I now just block the front wheel of the cart behind me with my foot so it won't move. And I tell the person that they've now extended their shopping trip instead of making it shorter. If they didn't like my speed before, they sure as heck ain't gonna like it now. I can be slower than molasses in winter when I want to be. I will ask the cashier a million questions, about the products I'm buying , their life, the weather, anything just to make the line go slower.

 

[Nancy]

If the lines are that long, I'd be looking for a new store to shop at. Wegman's has no automated/self check out machines around here, but they do not rely on these machines to reduce lines (or attempt to). I've never seen a line more then 2 people in any line, that includes the person currently being checked out.

Wegmans claims they will never put them in since they are all about customer service and there is no customer service if you are scanning and bagging your own groceries. I love my Wegmans..27 registers, most are open on Saturdays and never any long lines. And if they do get long lines and have to open more registers they get people to do it...and they will also get baggers if they lines still aren't moving fast enough.

This is the weirdest post. I'm hoping it's a joke.

Yeah, I'm so ancient. I still write checks. How dare I take a few extra seconds to pay!

I write checks every week for my groceries. Don't plan on stopping any time soon.

There are not enough times that the word Twit is used. All the same, I don't get the whole parking spot vulture bit. I just park in the first space I see, it might be what 10 extra steps to get in the store?

I had a laugh last week. I was leaving my spot..there were 2 empty spots right next to me but going away from the store. A car comes up with the directional on to turn into the spot so I stop backing up to let them pull in next to me. The car just sits there...so I pull out...as I drive away I see the car pull into my spot. Now I wasn't really all that close to the store in the first place..but this person had to wait for me to leave to have my space which was only 1 whole spot closer...

When we were little, my mom used to go grocery shopping in the middle of the night and leave us all home asleep - for some peace and quiet! Hold or place card in easily-accessible location.
Swipe.
Punch one button (enter)
Sign
Punch one button (done).
Voila! (yes, I do use my debit card as a credit card in the supermarket right now, due to a promotion TDBank is offering).
Or,
Swipe.
Punch four buttons (PIN)
Punch one button (enter)
Punch one button (cash back no/yes)
Punch one button (okay).
Seven buttons, no signature. Quick.

Me, writing a check. ( I have most filled out way before the end of the order)

Fill in $$ amount while cashier is scanning my coupons. I round up to get cash back...by the time she is done my check is ready
Hand check to cashier
Cashier types in amount
Hits her/his check button
Drawer opens
Cash gets handed back to me with receipt
Me walking out of the store

Probably the same amount of time as a credit card user.

 

[Hal Gurtner]

Thank you for doing the good samaritan thing.



Patience, seriously. Is that extra 30 - 60 seconds going to really make a difference in the grand scheme of things? Bumping anyone is uncalled for and rude, even if the person is going slow. Do you bump someone's car when they do not accelerate immediately when the light is green too?

No, but I lay on the horn like a mothergrabber.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

I got out of my car at Walmart yesterday. I clicked lock twice so that it would make the "HONK" noise once. Well, a lady on her cell phone goes walking by and when I locked my car, the honking noise ONCE went off. She stops walking, looks at me and says "I am on the phone! Could you quit that racket?!"

Excuse me for making sure my car is locked

 

[Hal Gurtner]

Funny story from just yesterday - At the local Snobs 'R' Us independent upscale grocery store, I was at the lunch meat counter in the process of getting my order filled when up walks an old-ish, fat woman who asked for a pound of some kind or other of a type of Boar's Head meat (I never clearly heard what it was she asked for). The young man taking her order informed her that they no longer carried that item, and she loudly sighed, then replied that no, they were NOT, in point of fact, out of said item, that she had been there two times in the last two weeks, and BOTH times they had tried to tell her that they were out, only to discover some of said item in the back of the store.

So the employee checks with another employee, and, indeed, he is told that they no longer carry the item she's looking for. She then even more loudly declaims that NO, they're all wrong, that THREE times in the last THREE weeks they've tried to tell her that they no longer carry the stuff, only to later, and with much embarrassment on their part, find out that they were wrong. She then vociferously informs him that the stuff they're offering her in place of the stuff that she actually wants is TOTALLY unacceptable, and how dare they have the temerity to offer it to her!

She then catches my eye and attempts to smile in a commiserating manner with me, so I smile back and say, "Talk about the customer from hell." She then laughs and says, "Yeah, but the customer's always right, aren't they?" I reply that I guess the customer from hell is always right, in any case. She then starts saying things like "I don't mean to be rude, or anything" and "I'm sorry to be such a bother", and at the end the original employee comes from checking in the back inform her that, indeed, they do not carry the product anymore. She then thanks them and goes on her merry way.

And the upshot? I get to, for once, call someone out in public for being a douche nozzle without wifey going the confounding, emasculating route and telling me to stop and hitting me on the shoulder. Yay, me!

 

[Hal Gurtner]

Oh, and I just realized that my wife and I ventured to the grocery yesterday together! Does that mean I now qualify for government assistance?

 

[SaraJayne]

I got out of my car at Walmart yesterday. I clicked lock twice so that it would make the "HONK" noise once. Well, a lady on her cell phone goes walking by and when I locked my car, the honking noise ONCE went off. She stops walking, looks at me and says "I am on the phone! Could you quit that racket?!"

Excuse me for making sure my car is locked

WTH is wrong with people???

That is un-freakin' believable!!!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Funny story from just yesterday - At the local Snobs 'R' Us independent upscale grocery store, I was at the lunch meat counter in the process of getting my order filled when up walks an old-ish, fat woman who asked for a pound of some kind or other of a type of Boar's Head meat (I never clearly heard what it was she asked for). The young man taking her order informed her that they no longer carried that item, and she loudly sighed, then replied that no, they were NOT, in point of fact, out of said item, that she had been there two times in the last two weeks, and BOTH times they had tried to tell her that they were out, only to discover some of said item in the back of the store.

So the employee checks with another employee, and, indeed, he is told that they no longer carry the item she's looking for. She then even more loudly declaims that NO, they're all wrong, that THREE times in the last THREE weeks they've tried to tell her that they no longer carry the stuff, only to later, and with much embarrassment on their part, find out that they were wrong. She then vociferously informs him that the stuff they're offering her in place of the stuff that she actually wants is TOTALLY unacceptable, and how dare they have the temerity to offer it to her!

She then catches my eye and attempts to smile in a commiserating manner with me, so I smile back and say, "Talk about the customer from hell." She then laughs and says, "Yeah, but the customer's always right, aren't they?" I reply that I guess the customer from hell is always right, in any case. She then starts saying things like "I don't mean to be rude, or anything" and "I'm sorry to be such a bother", and at the end the original employee comes from checking in the back inform her that, indeed, they do not carry the product anymore. She then thanks them and goes on her merry way.

And the upshot? I get to, for once, call someone out in public for being a douche nozzle without wifey going the confounding, emasculating route and telling me to stop and hitting me on the shoulder. Yay, me!

What did her age and weight have to do with anything?

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

What did her age and weight have to do with anything?

I thought that it added to the comedy. At least, I assumed that he was trying to write in a comedic manner...

 

[Hal Gurtner]

Oh, I really don't like cashiers to make comments about the stuff I buy. I don't know why. One thing is okay, but on and on. Just no.

Hear, hear! How dare the plebs even attempt to speak to us patricians?

 

[happygirl]

After reading this thread. I have decide that I'm the rudest meanest grocery shopper in the world

I always pays with checks
I hardly ever put the divider thing up
If someone bumps me with there cart on purpose, I'm going to do more then roll my eyes.
I like for the cashier to talk to me, I always assumed it made there day to go better to have some friendly talk.

If I see you have fewer items then I do. I will most of the time let you go in front of me unless you are huffing and puffing down my shirt.

 

[DeluxePrincess]

Thought of this thread when I went food shopping this morning. I was unloading my cart onto the checkout counter, conveyor belt moving my items forward. The lady behind me is huffing and puffing. I guess I unload too slowly for her. She takes the divider thing, slaps it down and starts taking her food out. Great, except I STILL had food in the cart. So the conveyor belt moves and soon the counter is filled with her food. I told the cashier that I still had some items in my cart, the lady behind me probably didn't notice I had them. Lady says, "I saw them, just trying to speed you up." Then she laughs. All I could do was shake my head. Can't believe the rudeness out there.

 

[Hal Gurtner]

What did her age and weight have to do with anything?

Because old-ish, fat women are just naturally rude, obviously.

 

[Sparx]

Thank you! Gosh, I didn't think so many here would think I was rude for slightly bumping the woman with her cart. There was no one ahead of her so she wasn't penned in, she just chose not to pull her cart ahead (which would be common courtesy) so I could start unloading my groceries as well. If I would have waited until she was completely finished, then I would have been holding up the line behind me as well.

But, doh! I keep forgetting this is the Dis.

this is ridiculous. you cannot hit a person with a cart. weather it was "slightly bumping" or whatever, you still purposely pushed your cart into her. thats not okay. there is a reason she gave you a dirty look, and its because this isn't a dis thing, its a common sense thing.

if you're this rude, i'm not surprised your customers weren't courteous when you were a waitress.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

Thought of this thread when I went food shopping this morning. I was unloading my cart onto the checkout counter, conveyor belt moving my items forward. The lady behind me is huffing and puffing. I guess I unload too slowly for her. She takes the divider thing, slaps it down and starts taking her food out. Great, except I STILL had food in the cart. So the conveyor belt moves and soon the counter is filled with her food. I told the cashier that I still had some items in my cart, the lady behind me probably didn't notice I had them. Lady says, "I saw them, just trying to speed you up." Then she laughs. All I could do was shake my head. Can't believe the rudeness out there.

I would have taken another 30 minutes to take those last few items from my cart...

 

[happygirl]

my hubby also goes grocery shopping with me. LOL I guess I'm just looking for trouble

 

[srferson]

Thought of this thread when I went food shopping this morning. I was unloading my cart onto the checkout counter, conveyor belt moving my items forward. The lady behind me is huffing and puffing. I guess I unload too slowly for her. She takes the divider thing, slaps it down and starts taking her food out. Great, except I STILL had food in the cart. So the conveyor belt moves and soon the counter is filled with her food. I told the cashier that I still had some items in my cart, the lady behind me probably didn't notice I had them. Lady says, "I saw them, just trying to speed you up." Then she laughs. All I could do was shake my head. Can't believe the rudeness out there.

Wow. That is impressively obnoxious.

 

[ginna74]

hmmmm well I tend to not hurry just because people are behind me ( am not a sloth either). And if I were to be assualted and it is very much on purpose you are not gonna like my response. People who hit because people in front of the line aren't going fast enough need a "bump" in their own hiney.