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AIBU?

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Original poster

to be cross with this woman in supermarket.

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yorkshire84 · 30/05/2012 15:09

So I popped into the supermarket to pick up a few treats as I had birthday money to spend. I had 4 items in my hand and headed towards the checkouts. There were no basket checkouts open so I noticed the 1st main checkout was virtualy clear so I headed towards it. A woman coming in the opposite direction with a trolley full arrived at the same time and barged past me. I am 23 weeks pregnanty btw.
I didn't say anything and paid at another checkout but i was cross. Especially as I had passed through other busier checkout before she had even finished so I wouldn't have delayed her.

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Cockwomble · 30/05/2012 15:11

What has being pregnant got to do with it?

Aside from that it's a bit rude.

MyThumbsHaveGoneWeird · 30/05/2012 15:11

She sounds a bit aggressive. Even if she had been first it would have been kind to let you go ahead. Some people get tunnel vision in supermarkets though and don't notice people around them.

squoosh · 30/05/2012 15:12

I would have said something really clever along the lines of 'Excuse Me!' or 'How bloody rude' in quite a loud voice and then given her my death stare.

Works like a charm :)

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yorkshire84 · 30/05/2012 15:17

"What has being pregnant got to do with it?"

It could have had something to do with it if the trolley had hit me. It very nearly did.

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Cockwomble · 30/05/2012 15:20

Talk about entitled. You might just have looked fat to her.

skrullandcrossbones · 30/05/2012 15:28

She might have been partially sighted and not seen you. Happens to me sometimes...

Bucharest · 30/05/2012 15:30

So she got to the checkout first.

And?

squoosh · 30/05/2012 15:31

She said she 'barged' past her. That is impolite to most people.

Petsinmyroyalpudenda · 30/05/2012 15:31

Nearly but didn't. Mountain out of a molehill springs to mind

No harm done it could of been an accident you know.

Nancy66 · 30/05/2012 15:33

Never mind that - what you are you doing spending your birthday money in a supermarket?

bunnybabylon · 30/05/2012 15:34

bloody hell what a lovely supportive thread

what a cow op, karma will bite her on the arse

Toughasoldboots · 30/05/2012 15:35

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KellyElly · 30/05/2012 15:36

Some people have no manners. If someone has a couple of things and I have a full trolley I always let them in front of me. Esp if i saw you were pregnant I would.

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yorkshire84 · 30/05/2012 15:41

It was books and we did approach checkout at same time.

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Poulay · 30/05/2012 15:42

Meh.

She beat you there.

Hard lines.

susiedaisy · 30/05/2012 15:43

YANBU op she sounded rude, she could of let you go through if you only had 4 items, I've often let people go before me if we arrive at the till at the same moment and they only have a couple of items, mind you one time it back fired as the person had a problem with one of her items and they took ages to sort it out and get a replacement but by then I had unloaded my trolley onto conveyer belt, as far as being pregnant is concerned at 23 weeks she may not of noticed!

Olympia2012 · 30/05/2012 17:38

It's the heat op, it brings out the worst in people!

saintmerryweather · 30/05/2012 18:18

not sure i see a problem...should you be allowed to go first because you're pregnant?

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yorkshire84 · 30/05/2012 18:20

We were both at the checkout at the same time. I had 4 items. She had a trolley full. I would have thought that it wolud be reasonable to let me go 1st.
Instead she barged through with the trolley.

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TheHouseOnTheCorner · 30/05/2012 18:25

Oh come the heck on! yes...a pregnant woman should go first you lot of old baggages! You get tired and grumpy when up duffed and that's enough to expect a bit of preferential treatment imo.

ChaosTrulyReigns · 30/05/2012 18:30

Does everybody eles check other women's torso area before making day to day decisions that affect other people?

Bucharest · 30/05/2012 18:30

At 23 weeks pregnant most people don't show and are certainly not yet at the "let me through I'm having a baaaaaaby" stage.

Pregnancy is not an illness blah blah.

You wait till you're 34 weeks and coming home from work on the train and no fucker stands up. Then you get to whinge.

hopkinette · 30/05/2012 18:35

When I was at the station today I was queuing to buy a ticket at the ticket machine and a man came and stood in front of me and then when a machine was available he started walking towards it and then I said "Excuse me I am also waiting" and then he let me use the machine and he waited til there was another one.

Mindyourownbusiness · 30/05/2012 18:42

I had a related experience today but much pleasanter.

I was in my local Lidls Waitrose and queuing with quite a few items on the belt when a rather nice fella came up behind me with four items. I beckoned him to go in front of me and he said 'are you sure you dont mind ?' and I said jokingly 'providing you've not lost your card or something' and we both had a really good laugh I had a flirt about situations where we've regretted doing such a favour.

meanwhile back in the real world I suddenly remembered I'm married and probably twice his age - but it was fun

WhereYouLeftIt · 30/05/2012 18:47

"What has being pregnant got to do with it?"
Well for starters it makes you a lot easier to see, all that extra width and that; no realistic chance of "Oh, I didn't see you there ..."

Yes OP, it was rude of her - you could probably have been through the checkout before she'd finished unloading, apart from anything else, so politeness wouldn't have cost her so much as one second.

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