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

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Anyone?

It's quite fum...

I nipped into Tesco to get Whiskey for DH birthday, I had teenage DS with me. At the till I placed the dividers as in the photo but DS turned the back one round, I tutted and switched it back. When I took photo he died a little :) Cashier didn't change either of them!

I snorted at he died a little. It's those little things that make having a teenager so much fun

I tried it in tesco today but noone queued behind me... Although the woman in front of me was using her car keys and handbag as a divider so the effect may have been diminished somewhat, irish people just don't have the same regard for rules as you brits!

I also did this in my local Aldi today after filling about half the conveyor belt....and nothing happened either..?? the woman behind me just left it as it was and loaded behind it, what an anticlimax!

Did it in Asda earlier when no one was behind me. Then a woman marched up, threw down her shopping, muttered "for God's sake" and banged it down on the conveyor belt the 'correct' way. She looked a bit 'ard, I didn't fancy putting it back longways again.

Ooh be careful Shelagh!

I was in Morris ons today. Only had a basket full

Not only did I place tge divider after my shopping lengthwise but I used it to prod my tins down the belt.

Unfortunately no queue after me
Need to shop at busier time.

Redpriest.
Zucker I so love to wind my teen DS up he has died a little regularly. Sadly he lives away now so I don't have an opportunity .

Going shopping shortly....

If the people in front have already put the divider down, I plan to sigh and tut as I alter it to Mumsnet style.

No one seemed to notice!!

I couldn't do it :-( I failed!

Did it again today (notice that I go shopping a lot!) in another Asda. No one gave a toss.

Like RedPriest, I also did the same, in Aldi no less. No-one battered an eyelid.

I did it today in both M&S and Heron Foods (fur coat and no knickers).

Stout, tweedy woman in M&S briskly turned it round. I nonchalantly turned it back, shunting her deli style coleslaw in the process. She harrumphed but left it...until I was busy packing and paying when she turned it and shot me a triumphant glance. Touché I thought.

In Heron Foods a young couple moved it, I moved it back they gave each other a look and the man staged whispered "k'nell's her problem with the thingy?"

I shall try this on my next shop. I shall take child with me, as he is a teenager and I have to embarrass him, he is 15, its the law.

I did it today when there was nobody behind me. Then someone came but I was distracted by the baby reaching the limit of her patience, and the checkout boy yapping incessantly the entire time and I forgot to look :(

If anyone tries this later today & is then asked for directions to the pombears, say hi to DH from me! He won't do it. Killjoy!

I did this today in Heron...was soo amusing when the old lass behind me tutted and turned it back...will definatly do it on the big shop on Saturday and stifle my sniggers

ooh it should be a rule that you do this and buy pombears so you can be identified as a MNer. It can be the new scarf.

I turned it in morrisons yesterday while mil tutted at me, she didn't want to play, I don't know what happened to it because about a second after I put it down newly potty trained ds suddenly said "mummum I need a WEE!" Which caused immediate panic and rushing to the loos, she was done when we it back.
I wanted to try in aldi later that day but predictably it was packed and only one till open, I wasn't in the mood for a riot!
Next time!

I'm going to tescos in Burnley later and I will try this. DH thinks I'll get battered.

Iv just done it in a very busy sainsburys, the elderly gentleman behind me immediately turned it back the 'correct' way and slammed it down!
I left it but had a little chuckle to myself, surprising how little things cheer you up

I did it; nonchalantly placed it down and then waited for a reaction. Unfortunately, no one arrived behind me. I'll try a busier till next time.

I did it in Tesco this afternoon then went down to start packing. A couple arrived and just turned it round . I couldn't turn it back because I was too busy packing.

The man made eye contact with me and smiled as I walked away so now I have to wonder if he is a MNer

OK, I tried it this afternoon in Waitrose. Woman in front of me with a baby in a buggy took no notice at all. The woman behind me, who had a 3 year old (?) with her, turned it the 'correct' way but didn't give me a 'look'.

Maybe she thought I was too old to be a MNer . Or maybe she wasn't a MNer?!