To think DP is being hugely unreasonable?

[TheCunnyFunt]

We do our weekly shop together, I managed to do the shopping separator game once before he got wise and now puts the separator thing on the belt before I can get to it, and if I do manage to get to it before he does he just turns it back the wrong right way :(

For those that aren't aware, the game goes like this-
Put your shopping on the belt and put the separator like this-> shopping -- shopping.
Instead of like this-> shopping | shopping
And watch the face(s) of the person/people behind you as they give you weird looks.

I should LTB shouldn't I?

Can't believe people are getting so worked up about this

It was just an amusing social experiment. No inconvenienc.

JJust interesting to see people's internal struggle played out on their facesbecause you've done something socially unexpected.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS.

GAH.

Ferret/Keema gis us all the gin. Despair.

OP certainly LTB

I did this the other day. My DP turned it round and thought I'd lost the plot... Maybe I should LTB too

I do that sometimes. DH hasn't ever noticed. We've been married 17 years. Should I LTB?

DISCUSTING
Wasting all the good folk's time.

I don't have any chaos, someone put the divider on the conveyor belt the wrong way when i was trying to buy some so I lost about ten seconds worth of stacking time, life was officially over so I threw a strop and pulled a Michael douglas on their asses.

I like to do it at the ASDA tills.

People are so funny, like when you have loads of shopping on the conveyor and you stand at the end of your shopping and the person behind you is itching to reach down and get a divider but you're in the way and the only one left is down by the till person.

Why wind people up though? I really don't get it! It's not funny...it's...er...not nice.

why does it wind people up though, I just thought it was amusing when I saw it.

I think I am going to have to bring this game down under when I go do my shopping on the weekend!

It's hardly crime of the century... There are things that delay people more at checkouts that where a divider is.

Rummaging through bag to find wallet/purse, being very slow at packing, carrying on a conversation with the cashier even after you have finished your transaction to name a few.

Ok, got it, playing with people's automatic neatness / convention reflex by placing the divider a bit askew.

Fine but, placing it lengthways looks like you're trying to prevent them from loading their shopping, so prompts a much more conscious 'why are you being such a provocative twat' response.

I think you've got to be a special sort of person to get woubd up by it, tbh.

In all my months of doing it I've never done it when time/space is tight. And I've never delayed, by more than a millisecond, people loading their cocopops, lunchables, People's Friend and StickForTheirArse. I'm a considerably considerate person to be behind.

Smile.

I'm always up for messing with people's neatness reflexes. Few things irritate me more than being behind neatness freaks in the supermarket - people who insist on loading stuff Incredibly Tidily, taking ages to place all the boxes at 90 degree angles and graded by size, and all the tins and bottles in serried rows. You're going to chuck them into carrier bags in two minutes, FFS! I know some people like to organise things so they keep frozen stuff together etc, but it's way more efficient to do that after it's gone through the checkout.

Wince.

SCREAM

You are my very favourite, most special person Chaos.

Have some

Spent the first page of the thread confused, thought you were putting it on end, like a flag pole. Which would make you look odd, and on a juddery belt fall over.

Spent the next couple of pages thinking on end is a great idea. You do look a bit odd, and can have a quiet chuckle, but it doesn't take up any more room than a conventionally placed divider so you cant upset the speedy belt fillers behind you.

I like Chaos too, very much. Just.not.this.

I really dislike bum-suckers though... vomit-inducing.

Dia, you'd know one if you got given one.

Just deliberately fail to put the divider on the conveyor belt next time you're shopping. Someone will give you an O-F L, guaranteed.

I dislike misog faced misery guts.
They make me

I'm loving the indignant 'I've been on this site for YEARS and I've never heard of this' posts. I've been on this site for years too, and yes, I remember the thread. It's not possible to catch everything that goes on here, you will miss things occasionally!

OP, you made the mistake of not plastering 'LIGHTHEARTED' across your post and making sure to explain in great mindnumbing detail what the game is and that the intentions behind it aren't to annoy and that you don't discriminate between shoppers and/or supermarkets or judge the person behind you on their shopping or any other spurious reason the joyless brigade will come up with because they don't understand what's going on and don't like being left out.

'the joyless brigade'

A Joy Division tribute band?