Who'd like to join me in a supermarket checkout experiment?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Anyone?

It's quite fum...

Bugger. Not in work till end of next week. I will keep an eye out for chaos.

Well I was inspired by Oldraver and first of all upended my basket on the conveyor belt, leaving all shopping jumbled together in a messy heap , then successfully managed to position the divider sideways this is difficult because I usually like things properly organised and tidy. This caused some consternation to the two women behind me. I watched with peripheral vision their glance to each other then a few seconds later a tentative move by one woman to reposition the divider. Would I ever do it again? Yes! Would I ever attempt to reposition divider after the person behind me straightened it? No, not that crazy!

I just did it in Sainsburys, but there was no one behind me at the time. When someone did come along they just picked it up and turned it round. Think it was a failure.

I'm with KateSMumsnet. It's wrong and unnatural and possibly a marker for the start of the End of Times.

Down with this sort if divider fiddling thing.

I did it. It put it diagonally across the belt and the lady in front of me who couldn't have had more than 12 items sort of kissed her teeth and flipped it quickly and irritatedly back to horizonatal.

Made me giggle inside. Thanks Chaos .

It goes against all my OCD tendencies, but I plan to try this next time I do the shop (doesn't go against my contrary tendencies though )

This is really funny but Do none of you use self scanners ??

Gah, I would love to try this but can't be bothered with all this loading / unloading. Scanning it saves so much time

I use self scanners in Waitrose but our Sainsburys doesn't have them.

Oh oh oh, can't wait to go sainburys - love upsetting the status quo

To be really evil we should turn round the one in front of our shopping as well as the one behind it...

I often don't put the divider there at all if no one is waiting. Think it started when I would shop with a baby in a sling and couldn't reach easily. Now I just quite enjoy the chaos. Most people just huff and puff, if challenged I just tell them that I like to reminisce about the days before shopping dividers which sends them into a spin as they are generally older than me and so feel divided between the need for order and the right to reminisce. Next time I will try the unconventional placing.

Ok I've got it now. I'll do it when we next do a Big Shop. Daren't do it in our 'Are you local?' one.

Also adding 'make rude words out of the herbs and spices' to the list.

I'm having a mid life crisis. This is just the sort of thing I need to do. No more Ocado for me when there's these larks to be had.

Just done this in Waitrose and was called a "Fucking idiot" by the woman behind me. Good gracious, Coconutty. Good for you turning it back again.

I'd have turned round and said "Sorry, did you say something?"

I bottled it in Sainsbury's but in my defence there was a massive queue and each conveyor belt was stuffed with food so taking up extra room with weird divider placement might have caused a riot.

I did it in Sainsburys. There was no-one behind me though at the time and 1 person in front of me. By the time I got to pay someone turned up and asked the cashier if they were still open. They must have thought that a divider like that meant they were closing the till

Cocobutty, you may have just winned the thread!

Slubs, I'd kinda like to be known as the Catalystist of The End of Times. Would staying my Evil Dictorator Tendencies.

Coconutty wins the entire internet for that.

I'm surprised at a Waitrose shopper calling someone a fucking idiot.

Oh God, wish i'd seen this earlier - put my stuff on the conveyor at Asda today to find my multipack of crisps was ripped open as if a bag missing. Said I'd go and get another and was gone 20 sec max to find idiot woman had moved my trolley out of the way and started putting her stuff on AFTER mine. HTF was I supposed to get passed her trolley pack a weeks worth of groceries and carry then to the car ( and loose my £ coin - arse!!!)

I used to work on a supermarket checkout and hated the lazy fuckers who would just chuck the contents onto the belt still in the basket. If sitting down it's hard to reach the stuff in them. Why should I have to stand up. I would often ask the offenders to empty the basket*

*Disclaimer, I am no longer a checkout operator and basket emptying was not imposed on nice old ladies or anyone I fancied. I also used to squeeze the bananas of rude customers so they'd bruise quickly when they got home.

I did this tonight in Tesco. Unfortunately there was no-one behind me!

Oh no! Might have stuffed up you experiment, man in front of me at lidl did this to me today. I didn't think much about it until I saw this thread, I just span it round, but interestingly in home bargains the lady behind me, I had failed as usual to put a divider in, grabbed one and then used it to PROD! My shopping forward!

Then again maybe I wasn't affected by this mind game is one of my top fave things to do on a study day is to swap seats after a break, THAT MY FRIEND IS A TOTAL MIND FUCK!