To be enraged by people who organise their purse very slowly and carefully before moving away from checkou

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I suffer from irrational supermarket checkout rage. I especially hate people who stand there and slowly replace their card in their purse. I don't mean elderly people either.

Yanbu, just put the fucking money in and move on!

See also: people who stand at the end of an escalator and decide where to go.

I hate those people who put their trolley behind them, then unload it onto the conveyer belt. Then stand there taking up all the space with an EMPTY trolley, so you can't start emptying your shopping trolley as you can't get near the increasingly empty conveyer belt... all because some diddums has to put the trolley behind him or her and then keep it there. What is that about?

But yes also the dithering idiots who slowly pack their bags after the stuff has been spewed out the other end, even after they have paid. I shop for a family of 7 and can pack the bags in the same time it takes the checkout person to pass the stuff through the scanner. I don't get why other people find it hard.

And yes, those who know you're waiting but still slowly fart about with their purses. I bet those are the same people that have umbrellas.

I hate this too - that person that stands there placing each coin individually into the pouch, sliding the card slowly in. Maybe they haven't quite finished packing their shopping so they EXCRUCIATINGLY slowly place the items as if they may explode, in the bag.

All the while you, whoever is with you and the checkout person is just sort of looking around awkwardly. There's a special place in hell for these people

Monkey even worse is when the cashier just starts hoying your shopping down anyway so then you're behind on your packing.

Not unreasonable at all. I have a similar hate when people get onto the bus and then spend 5 mins searching for their purse in their handbag to then spend a millenia to find the cash to pay the driver with. Any normal person has this stuff readily at hand!!! But no, these pricks like to take their sweet time about it like no-one else has places they need to be, proper winds me up.

YANBU. I suffer supermarket rage too.
Similar to DarthVadersTailor, my pet hate is people who stand in a queue in a shop for 5 minutes tutting about having to wait, then when they get to paying they decide it's time to look through their purse for their bank card. They had 5 minutes to get it ready.
Another irritating habit is letting the cashier ring everything in, then at the last minute before paying, decide to go and carry on shopping, and expect to the cashier to wait for them to carry on with the sale.
I used to work in a shop and would just cancel the sale and serve the next person.

You know there is going to be a 'word' for people who feel the 'checkout rage' soon...just like those of us who feel the rage about noises (usually eating noises).

Apparently misophonia is now a recognised neuropsychiatric disorder (or, as my DD puts it, a brain disorder).

I wonder what 'checkout rage' folk will be diagnosed with? Perhaps MN can be the first to come up with the latin for 'checkout' and 'rage/hate' and we can be lauded for years to come by the psychiatric academic community.

For the record, there will never ever be a 'word' for folk pissed off by other folk stopping at the top/bottom of any stairwell/escalator...it's just wrong.

whoops bunny That was funny. Yes there is special place in hell for these people. They will have to push a trolley of hot coals up a steep hill and then it all tumbles back down ad infinitum And they look insufferably smug while they do all this. I don't mind people who make mistakes. Just the ones who do this as a routine.

I secretly want to live in the fictional country of Nambula in "Cause Celeb" where everything is so laid back, it's not considered rude to waste someone's time. Mañana is the word for me.

YABU. If you're in such a permanent stressful hurry all the time that an extra 5 mins at the checkout gives you this level of anger, you'll be on blood pressure meds before you know it.

Relax, let them put their card and money away, smile at them. It may be that feeling you huffing and puffing and stressing behind them is making them go deliberately slowly not that I would ever do that, oh no

Stopping at the top or bottom of an escalator is dangerous. Taking 5 minutes to put away cards, money, wallet etc isn't :)

That was a cross-post OP, I meant that I'd like to live in a world wher time was not of the essence - so much so that it wasn't rude to waste others' time

You have to read Cause Celeb to get it. A book that hs stayed with me for some reason.

Self scan is the way to go.
Pack as you go along,
No unloading and reloading ,
No checkout queues ,
No checkout operator throwing your carefully chosen fruit etc ,
I looooove self scan
I must get a life !!!!!!

There's certainly nothing like feeling time-pressured to make everything cock up, HicD, that's for sure.

What is this book 'Cause Celeb' ? Will it cure me?

Maybe people should have more patience and think there could be a reason. I have been diagnosed with a neurological disease and in the space of 6 months I am now that person- I sometimes can't pack properly as my hands don't work as well and it takes me ages to fiddle with my purse trying to remember where my card is and thinking which pocket it belongs in so I know I have it safe or have I money or even getting it out of my purse as I m clumsy that day.
All these things get worse when there are a queue of people staring wondering why I seem one of those dithering idiots.
I m not elderly either - in my 30s but still need to shop for my family.

Hicdraconis It may be dangerous for a purse sorter one day if I crack them over the head with a tin of plum tomatoes.

Well I love it - not sure it would stand up to the MN crtitiquing (it's not Wolf Hall!)

Cause Celeb

ABout a woman with a horrible famous boyfriend who goes to Africa, then goes to work in refugee camp there. Ends up dealing with a famine and organises a telethon using her previous celebrity contacts. Meets tons of red tape/beaurocracy in the process. Good read.

Sorry OP I'm rambling ( )

Ignore me, total derail of your thread! but it is a good book

I find that kind of slowness at tills thing fucking annoying when I am running late but not so much when I have time on my hands so i guess the solution is to be more organised and allow more time so you wont get as annoyed by it ... Just you is right there are lots of reasons for this kind of thing and we have some of them in our family too, just use your imagination.

I am now that person - Yeah, me too! I'm happy to say I never was a huffer & puffer, although I had to have a few words with myself when I moved from London to The Town That Time Forgot. I am annoyingly Zen-like in checkout snarl-ups, traffic situations and the like. If this thread doesn't hate me enough yet - my response to "I haven't got all day, you know!" is a sickly sympathetic head-tilt and "Oh, dear."

The woman in front of me today actually began to the paper before moving out of the way. She was clearly oblivious to the rapidly growing queue behind her.

Thank you yumyum - I used to love shopping - absolutely hate it now. I feel exhausted even if I manage to do it without taking my 3dc with me. It's no fun having to walk round so slowly as u have to check your list at every single aisle as you can't remember anything and that's without the dread of mucking up at the til. I often come home in tears feeling worse as I looked so stupid standing thinking "what do I do next" as i m getting my purse ready to pay

I might be having problems but I'd rather have that and be a nice person than think I want to crack someone over the head as they are delaying me by a couple of minutes.

just you

OP yabu sorry ... I know it was meant to be lighthearted