What is with people at the grocery store? We are all standing in line. You breathing down the back of my fucking neck or trying to shove your loaf of bread onto the mat doesn’t make the line go any fuckin faster. For all the rest of you that fuckin hate these fuckers too, ask them if it looks like you have a saddle on your back, when they say “no” or have a blank look on their face, thell them to get the fuck off then.
—Saddless Savy
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2009.
I love it when they breathe down your neck. I especially like it when they try ramming the shopping cart up your ass. You run in to all types of tards while you’re out and about.
I am beginning to think that most people are retarded.
How ’bout the ones who try to push their cart through while you’re still using the debit thingie? One sharp push back on the cart always gets me an apology. There’s no need for such dickery.
I dislike the slow people in the express lane…they make me very angry
When there is enough room on the mat, I put the divider on it and start loading my grub on. I always assumed this was what you’re supposed to do? But now I find out people need their space in a fucking supermarket? Maybe there should be signs, keep back at least 10 feet. I mean, it’s not like the hallway between the aisles and check outs isn’t congested with line ups or anything.
“Sorry sir, you’ll have to go down the cereal aisle to get around us, OP needs their space!”
Oh and I also move my cart forward when the the person ahead of me is paying and all of my food is on the mat. Excuse me for wanting to keep the line moving and not just standing there asleep.
If someone asked me if they have a saddle on their back, I would laugh and reply, “You wish”
listen..you can’t use retarded its leotarded/kaytarded
That’s over.
or when people in the exspress line are in a hurry but have Way to many items
Holy shit, TTFN, I know exactly what you’re talking about.
What’s even worse is when you’re in a line and the actual PERSON is standing right up in your grillz while you’re trying to pay using debt. Happened a few time when I was in the self check out at a store that is super — people seem to think that the fact that I”m paying means they can put their crap down at the cash. I’ve had to tell people to step back so I could finish my transaction.
When I was a grocery cashier last fall, I actually had to ask (well, tell, really) a few customers to step back while the customer in front of them was using the debit machine. In some situations they couldn’t even reach the debit machine, never mind privacy!
Like, frig off and wait your fucking turn, people. I really don’t have any issues with telling these people to back the heck off because this type of self entitlement really frosts my cupcakes.
Me too, dgaf, I always put the divider up and start loading my groceries on the belt. That’s not rude, it’s a courtesy to the other people still waiting in line. This way the cashier can zip through your purchases quickly without having to wait for you to unload each item.
But inching in near the debit machine while another customer is paying is plain rude. Me and my cart stay at the end of the belt until the person is done. What’s the rush to get to the debit machine when the cashier has 100+ items to sort through first?
I thought you were supposed to load your groceries while the other person was paying?? Some people even put the divider up FOR the next person. Otherwise, it would take frikkin forever to put people through. There IS a difference between loading your stuff though, and jamming it on. LIke Fizz though, I don’t move the cart through until they are finished paying. I think it’s maybe different at a small register and counter (like Shoppers or something) where putting your item(s) may encroach on limited space. Even so, if I’m (or whoever is behind me, if I’m the one paying) carrying something heavy, most times people don’t mind sharing the counter.
“it would take frikkin forever”… funny how one extra minute in the grocery store is nothing like one spent kissing or blogging or eating or or or…
i just lift my leg and let a ripe one rip on them if they’re breathing down my neck. or if i’m using debit or placing items down on the belt and they’re shoving shit on it – i turn and burp in their face or sneeze on them.
works like a charm.
uhm…I was referring to the cashier….and the line in general. If I was that concerned over one minute personally, I shouldn’t be out grocery shopping at that moment.
Scott: although you have to use IQ scores carefully, it’s generally true that low and average scores translate fairly well to general ability. And the fact is, without passing judgment, that about 1 in 4 people are slow (highest IQ being about 90). Let’s just say that they need fairly frequent supervision on the job. 1 in 10 people are going to be hurting intellectually pretty bad, and I’m not talking obvious idiots either.
Most people haven’t really considered this. By definition – most people either aren’t bright enough to consider this fact, or they’re just bright enough to not want to.
But if anyone is wondering why they run into so many dullards, it’s simple statistics.
hahaha.. OP, that actually happened to me a couple of times, and I told the people off both times, they changes lanes.
One almost kept my feet with him while moving his cart trapping my heals under.