To think you have to actually have a trolley or basket with some shopping in it before joining a checkout queue?

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In Sainsbury's on Saturday, I spotted the one till that didn't have a queue and wheeled my trolley over. There was a woman standing in front of me, and a few bits & pieces left on the conveyor belt, which I naturally assumed were hers. I was just about to start unloading my trolley onto the belt when a man appeared with an overloaded trolley, pushed in front of me and said 'Excuse me, I'm with her', indicating the woman in front of me. Now, I read a lot on here about people standing in car parking spaces to reserve them, but I have never, ever heard of people reserving spaces in the checkout queue. When I look back now, I remember us both approaching the checkout from different directions and the man indicating to the woman to run ahead to get there before me. I gave him the glare from hell and went to the next till. Afterwards I felt like such a doormat. I know I should have said 'I was here with my trolley first, I am not moving' but I didn't. I know I need to be more assertive. Please tell me how you would have reacted/what you would have said?

Are you for real Lottikins?

Are you also one of those pratts who turns up at the school play and puts bags and cardigans across all the front row chairs so that your relatives can arrive at the last moment and have all the best seats?

Or one of those people who sits in a packed waiting room with an empty chair beside you which and keeps telling anyone who tries to sit on it that its 'reserved' while your OH ambles along in his own time?

So have you never asked someone to save your place in the queue for you whilst you nip to the loo? [weird]
If you want to get before me in the queue, get up a bit earlier!!

I dont want to get in the queue before you, I just dont want you to push in ahead of me when you havent even got your trolley! And no, I dont ask people to save my place. If I didnt go to the loo in time then thats my problem, not theirs.

Rude, entitled and selfish all of it.

Plastic Lobster, I have just spat my tea out in the middle of Pret! That's the best story I've heard in ages

So have you never asked someone to save your place in the queue for you whilst you nip to the loo? [weird]

What's that got to do with check out hogging?

Supposing everyone did what you do Lottie? How would that work?

"To the posters who ridiculously 'hold their space' what do you do when you get to the front and your accomplice hasn't reached you yet? Do you just move aside (to the back where you belong) or do you stand there like a tit and hold up the whole queue?"

Always wondered this

I don't nip to the loo with a trolley full of stuff... That's just odd, surely?

'Are you also one of those pratts who turns up at the school play and puts bags and cardigans across all the front row chairs so that your relatives can arrive at the last moment and have all the best seats?'

I would be bagsying the back seats though!!

I guess I child might need to go (and by child I mean just out of nappies), but in that type of instance I would and have removed my trolley from the queue altogether.

Lottiekins where to you live?

I think I've found my new favourite MNer

not.

What about if you get in the queue with your trolley or basket, but then send OH to run and fetch stuff you've forgotten? Because I'm often guilty of that

'To the posters who ridiculously 'hold their space' what do you do when you get to the front and your accomplice hasn't reached you yet? Do you just move aside (to the back where you belong) or do you stand there like a tit and hold up the whole queue?"

Always wondered this '

Say sweetly to the person behind me.'Would you like to go ahead of me? I don't mind'. But usually the warning of the big trolley has put them off and they have gone to another queue
hth

"Would you like to go ahead of me? I don't mind"

Haha wow.. you are really something aren't you?

You see you wouldnt actually have the chance to do that with me because my shopping would already be on the belt, my kids would be at the other end ready to "help" and you would be wondering WTF happened

hth :)

You've obviously just bumped into polite people so far then lottie. Because I would tell you to fuck right off and load my stuff on the belt anyway.

Bloody hell. After a stint on a supermarket checkout you could probably broker peace in the Middle East.

This thread is making me even more glad that I shop online and get it delivered.

Lottikins you brag with such breathtaking arrogance.

It must hurt having such a brass neck!

I hope I meet lottikins on my next shopping trip!

Lottikins, I can't imagine being so proud of such ridiculous, childish behaviour. Clearly you have no breeding.

Such a funny thread, things I learn on MN!

It would never even occur to me todo this and if someone did it to me I'd comment on their purchase of fresh air and then ignore them.

As for the comment about chucking shopping back into the trolley I'm assuming you are either joking or aged 10

Flabbergasted by Lottie, just so rude. You queue at the till with your trolley. If you forget something you can dash off and get it, but surely you don't arrive at point of service with nothing to purchase.
Had an incident when a hobby adolescent with five items or less chose to literally walk past me at the check out and try to place items in front of mine
Gave her an earful, loudly, told her to move her stuff. She counter claimed I was petty, I retorted "petty perhaps, but here before you, bugger off".
Some gullible fool kind gentleman offered her a place in front of him. Good riddance, choice of say something or seethe, I went for say something. Would do it again. Lottie don't shop near me.

I would tell you to fuck right off and load my stuff on the belt anyway.
thanks for the tip. In future I will be sure to stand in such a place that they can't get at the conveyor belt incase I come across you!