WIBU NOT to say anything to this woman

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I work for a supermarket and was working on the checkout earlier. I was serving an elderly lady who had a massive pile of vouchers and was trying to sort them out and yes, it took a while. However, my issue was with the customer behind her in the queue. She huffed and puffed, kept pushing forward and sighing and then started moaning about how she "thought this queue was going to be the quickest", she was "in a hurry" "had to back in work in the next 5 minutes" "the shopping wasn't worth losing her job over" etc, etc. I know its annoying when you chose the wrong queue, and it's annoying when people don;t have their vouchers ready and take longer than you expect but I don't think there is any need for the fuss she made. All I did was kind of laugh it off and say that I always end up choosing the wrong myself, in fact I normally warn people not to queue behind me, because it will be the slowest moving one! I could see that the elderly lady was feeling uncomfortable so should I have said something stronger to the second customer? Or should I have told the elderly customer to hurry (not that I would ever do that/ accept that I should have done so )

How very dare old ladies go shopping at peak times!!!!

That would piss me off too, Rhonda. Those wheely frames fold for a reason. Old people can be inconsiderate buggers too.

Oldies have enough problems and ache and pains associated with being elders with out being tutted at. After all we hope to get to that age and still be able to do our own shopping.

Sorry if that sounds ageist but I care for MIL with dementia,
cut them some slack.

I just hope I make it to that age donkey frankly my DCs will have probably driven me to an early grave long before I get there!

Gruffalump, and donkey that's not what I meant at all and you know it.

I'm not saying older people (not elders, please, we're not Native Americans!) shouldn't shop whenever they want to, just that it would make sense not to take a bulky item onto a bus at peak times, preventing several other passengers from being able to sit down, if you are able to avoid doing so.

My comment has got absolutely nothing to do with people with dementia, so I'm not really sure what that's got to do with anything.

I think you were very diplomatic.

Perhaps the supermarkets should price everything properly instead of sending out endless books of vouchers/points/rewards then no one would have to piss around at the checkout and inconvenience the self important workers

The old lady was rude. She should have sorted the vouchers to the correct product while she was in the queue. Being old isn't an excuse for rudeness. She didn't consider other people by not bothering to sort her vouchers out, why does she expect other people to tippy toe round her?

If she had all the vouchers sorted and ready you might have a point, but as she had already shown a distinct lack of consideration herself YABU.

Ah, but then people wouldn't be duped into thinking that somehow their supermarket was offering discounts that the others weren't!

Couldn't have that now, could we?

Financeprincess are you serious! Perhaps people on their lunch break should eat their lunch rather than get their knickers in a twist in checkout queues.
I hate impatient people. I am happy to let people go in front of me if they ask nicely, but if they give me the huffing treatment I make no effort to hurry.