re: woman unpacking my basket yesterday in shop

[FrozenNorthPole]

I can't work out whether she was being unreasonable, or I was ...

I was loading my shopping onto the conveyor belt at Wilkinsons yesterday. I was in a queue of about 3 people - it wasn't busy. Had 2 big packs of nappies, some cleaning supplies and a colouring book for DD1. Shop assistant asked if I wanted a bag, I said yes (had forgotten the one I usually bring) and then shop assistant gave me a tiny bag. I explained that my stuff would not fit in the tiny bag. Shop assistant found me a larger bag and resumed scanning stuff; I resumed packing it.

At this point, the woman behind me in the queue began removing my shopping from my basket and putting it on the conveyor belt by the armful, saying crossly, "I'm in a massive hurry, and it looks like you're going in slow motion". I don't know whether she was talking to the shop assistant or me - we were both moving at a pretty average speed as far as I know. I can understand her being frustrated if she was running late but I can't imagine reaching into someone else's shopping basket and removing all their stuff.

I'm not massively offended or anything, although in her haste she did drop quite a few of my items off the edge of the belt. AIBU to be surprised by this, or was this a perfectly reasonable thing to do in the circumstances?

"1 unpack stuff
2 put barrier thing across
3 pack stuff"

I would agree with this but make one small amendment, which is that if there is someone behind me, I put my barrier across before I've finished unpacking (obviously making sure I've got enough room on the conveyor belt) so they can start unpacking their stuff if they want.

It was rude, but I would have appreciated it. The supermarket conveyor belt is a horrific nightmare for me. My shopping always seems to develop legs. And all my bags shrink in size, until they won't even hold a box of Oxo cubes without me dropping said cubes on the floor first. And the queue of one behind me turns, in seconds, into a queue of 106.

O, save me from the tyranny of the supermarket conveyor belt!

In short, the sooner this becomes a feature of normal supermarket behaviour, the better. Let's club together to reduce the terror.

ooh, if someone had done that to me, I'd have been the slowest packer ever known and not even got my purse out until everything was packed away!

I think you can tell when someone is being genuinely helpful and when they are being snarky. And if you feel it was the latter - it probably was!

People have done this for me before when I've had loads of shopping and there fore had to pack before finishing emptying my trolley, just to make space, and I've always been grateful. It feels rude to just stand there waiting while someone else us rushing around like a mad thing. Commenting on slowness is rude.

This reminds me of when I was working on the tills in safeway as a student.

It was quite busy and I was going as fast as I could.

A very mean lady who was next in line to be served kept giving me hard stares and making comments about me having something wrong with my hands and how slow I was.

I was all red, shaky and nearly crying by the time she'd finished with me and far too meek at that age to tell her to eff the eff off as I would now

Some people are just wanky arseholes

We all want to do it..but we all know not to!