Who do you think you are? Do you think being elderly gives you the inherent right to be offensive and rude in front of my children? You are not likely reading this but for bitch sake’s, lets see if others would be offended….shall we?
See it’s a Saturday at a very busy grocery store near the Forum. I have my 2 kids in tow nattering at me for a chocolate bar.
I put my groceries down on the cash register, this senior is in front of me buying 4 boxes of Hambuger Helper and fumbling around for a $1 off coupon. Thats cool… take your time.
Just then… she turns to me and snaps… “wait your turn!” Then she starts picking up MY groceries and flinging them back on the conveyor belt. She snaps again “I hate people who push their stuff in front of me when I am paying”
I say, “look lady… relax… take you time but keep your hands off my groceries and stop being so rude in front of my kids.”
The cashier is shaking her head and the people behind me are laughing at how stupid this woman is.
As she walked away…..I said “girls, look at that woman walking away. That’s how you do not act when you get older…”
Being elderly does not give you the inherent right to be rude.
That’s it. —Grocery Store Stressor
This article appears in Jan 10-16, 2013.
Won’t get very far on only 4 boxes of hh.
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Good on yer for using her appalling behaviour as a teaching moment for your little ones. I’d have applauded, had I been in line with you.
Seems like you handled it quite well, no point fighting with her seems like she has too much dust in her attic.
dont fuck withmy woggers- her father built thegrocery store
Was she hunch backed by any chance.Sounds like the same old lady that tried to pick a fight with me in the bathroom at Scotia Square.She didn’t get very far.:)
Then she almost hit you when you were in the parking lot leaving correct. Because its ok if i ignore stop signs and drive in the the third lane, I’m elderly.
No, being elderly doesn’t but when you people don’t wait your turn and push your stuff in front of others when we’re paying does.
OB , IMO you were right to use her as a Bad Example for yer children. Just cause we’re old don’t mean we can treat everyone as miserable as we feel ~;)
THE NASTY OLD CUNT AIN’T GETTIN’ NONE.It’s made her a bitter,twisted up old shit.
woggers can you get off the 52 early- ineed more febreeze-
Woggers got *me* off early. ifyouknowwhatimean PisP
Maybe your nattering brats pissed her off.
Maybe you’re one of those people who gets all up on the person in front of you’s space while they’re trying to get their shit checked out and paid for.
How far up her arse was your cart? If you’re dealing with two whiny kids (kids who want chocolate bars are usually whiney about it), it’s easily overlooked that you aren’t waiting your turn.
But I wasn’t there so who knows? Maybe she just was being rude.
with all the mentions op made of her little darlings and how damaging to their little brains the old bat’s rudeness was, i am going to vote for op being a pushy-shovey. we have only her word for it that cashier and other patrons were on her side. and we know how brutally honest people are when they post here, eh?
if she was truly civilized, she would have graciously ignored the rudeness, and demonstrated to her children how a proper adult copes with lesser beings.
Well, it’s not the food on the belt that bugs me — because you can’t control the belt and unless the cashier puts the stick up, your food can get pushed up front.
It’s the cart up the arse thing that bugs me, although I will say that once someone behind me started putting their shit on the belt before I put mine on and that pissed me off a little. And I actually did push their shit down the belt when they did that.
I wonderif that was my woggers? she likes the hamburger helper if you knowwhat i mean.
i keep the cart behind me, and unload from the front of it. one too many bleeding ankles from cart pushers. if someone is carrying their purchases – no cart- i will make room for them at the end of the belt/counter, and let them know they can put the stuff down.
i enjoy grocery shopping.
What an unkind person. At the end of the day, did the bitchiness achieve anything? Did it improve anyone? Nope.
Leave your shit on the conveyor belt until the person in front of you has packed up and left (you said you put your things right ON the register?) unless they are taking an unreasonable amount of time.
When I was a cashier in a grocery store I would not so much as look at the next person in line until my current customer was departing. There is nothing worse than fumbling to jam your change and receipt into your wallet and scurry off with your bags while some huffy puffy SET is crawling up your ass. It is akin to sweating it out at the blackboard in school if you ask me.
I was always especially kind to the elderly, even if they were cunts. Think about this as an elderly person you you are basically like a teenager (limited budget, likely depending on others for transport or assistance obtaining things) but with the experiences of a lifetime. It must really fucking suck to know that most of your life, probably the best of it, is behind you and then be made to feel like an incompetent old fool by some whippersnapper and their chocolate deprived pups.
It was wrong for the woman to toss your shit around, it was wrong of you to be all up in her space and to use her behavior as an “example” to your kids. More like an excuse to make a snide bullying remark because I bet your ass said it loud enough for her to hear. I wonder if she was frightened as she left the store?
Have some fucking compassion and respect. You could have tought your children a better lesson by just apologizing and explaining it wasn’t your intention to invade her space or make her feel uncomfortable or rushed. Except it was, you were already annoyed about the cupon and that is the point in this bitch where your character becomes quite plain. If you wanted sympathy, ya shouldn’t have mentioned the cupon.
Cupon……?? whats a cupon….? You mean ‘coupon’ right?
Not all seniors are rude….alot of middle aged, young people…..are too….
There is just a lack of respect in this world…and in grocery stores too.
i have passed middle age by anyone’s standards but inside,of course, i am still struggling with some aspects of adolescence. finally accepted that there is no magical birthday where you suddenly become wise, confident and instinctively know which fork or honorific to use when dining with the queen. but i am not so old that i wouldn’t still have a fighting chance if jumped by a gang of kids. i feel very sorry for old men, who were strong, agile, athletic, chopped wood, built their house, fought in war and survived and who now have to be the victim of young snot-asses who shove them aside getting on the bus, going through doorways.
Sanctimonious rubbish OP. Way to go old lady. You were either making her feel rushed and harried in which case you deserve what you got. And don’t pull the ‘not in front of my kids’ BS. Having kids doesn’t give you a pass from being called out on your behaviour.
Could be she was just an old lady having a bad day so give her a break and stop being a self righteous jerk.
I agree with so many of you, but it especially hits home how entitled some parents feel.
we are all heading to old age. Let’s hope we all have enough marbles left not to piss off the entitled of this world.
I too dislike carts in my back, on my ankles, etc. Generally they are accompanied by an oops, sorry. A smile is all it takes. The conveyor belt moves ahead with your stuff on it…so what?? I know which are mine and I tell the cashier so.
Truly it is not the end of the world from either perspective.
wait your turn, smile and help others. some people failed kindergarten
Same thing happened to me last year with an elderly lady. She had 4 items in her cart and I had my hands full of things and she wasn’t putting her stuff down on the belt which i thought was odd, but I put my stuff down anyway. she gets to the cashier but the cashier automatically starts ringing in my items, I turned and said “No, those aren’t her items”
The older women turns back and says to be in a rude tone “Ill put my items on the belt when I WANT too”.
I told her it was fine don’t worry about it but she insisted on being rude some more and she kept getting angrier and being argumentative, I was defending myself but for some reason I was the one who looked like the bad guy. The cashier even told me I was rude and shouldn’t argue with an elderly person.
Look, you’re old enough to know how to properly stand in line at fucking grocery store, don’t think because you’re older you deserve me to bow down to you.