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?

It sounds like the MumsNet equivalent of the Masonic handshake. I shall be keeping an eye out for it from now on

"I do it in my local M&S so and one young guy who serves on the till there gives me a raised eyebrow and a knowing look every time."
This really made me laugh Zucker. Do you think he "knows"?

I love playing this game. I've realised (sadly) that it's far easier to pick the horizontal divider up from it's resting place and put it down lengthways than it is to unnaturally turn it widthways across the belt.

And it amuses me greatly when people do get twitchy and put it done the 'proper' way. I've yet to brave putting it back when it's been moved.

I shop variously in Sainsbury's, Tesco, aldi and lidl. Sainsbury's customer are by far the quickest at turning it round.

I love it too! Lots of fun. And we need more suggestions from chaos for the next game too ......

Can't believe how some of you can argue so much about about a bit of fun.

Of and yes LTB

I remember the original thread , so i knew exactly what Cunnyfunt was talking about . Is it childish ? , hell yes , does it do harm to anyone in any way, shape or form ? , NO

I'm not a lickarse keema. my lips are this colour because my heather shimmer lipstick rocks.

HQ stepping in on a divider thread.

HOWLING

Great innit Keema, united we stand, divided we fall an all that....

Lividoflondon I reckon he knows I'm trying to wind up the poshdog/giant cookie buyers. I don't think he knows of the great divider divide coven we have going

Gertie

I think its helpful at aldi.... sometimes im about 5 miles away from my shopping!

that stresses me... ocd

I'm in a clique and I've been told off by MNHQ. That's two firsts in one thread

I think there should be snipers positioned in supermarkets, ready to take out those shoppers who don't bother putting the separator on the belt at all.

I now feel like the only selfishperson who doesn't pick up the divider at all for the next person.

Would have thought it was their responsibility?

However I will do the vertical thing on my next shopping trip, might even crank it up a notch and do two

I think we should diversify, and try different angles of divider to see what happens.

Vertical is craziness! and obviously needs moved... but what if you put it down at 45 degrees? Were you just being cavalier? Slapdash about shopping separation? Should the person behind you move it? Or would that look neurotic? 'S a social minefield, I tell ya.

So I did it today at Sainsburys and DD kept moving it going 'no mummy, it doesn't go like that, stop it, put it the right way'

I would put it across the 'right' way purely and simply to fit my shopping on the belt. No internal struggle about things being 'not right' and no tutting

have to try this

Perhaps to add to the hilarity of this why don't we just throw ourselves on the floor in the same fashion? Rather than standing straight with the trolley.

I don't see why laughing at others expense at a till is so funny?

Laughing at people who were not knowingly part of a joke is quite unkind.

I'm quite intrigued that these negative views have only been expressed now by posters who clearly didn't see the original thread. Nobody had a problem with it when they felt part of the group to whom it was being suggested yet posters becoming aware of it after the fact are offended by it.

Is this a case of bandwagon jumping because someone else has claimed early on to be irritated by it or is it more that people feel excluded from a non-existent clique because they didn't see the original thread?

I really is weird that the two threads can be so different when the only difference is the times they were started. It cannot be that the activity is genuinely that offensive unless Chaos has some sort of magic filter that prevents those who do not share her sense of humour from seeing her threads.

I could just imagine Billy Connolly doing something like this and writing a routine based on people's responses

silver; really? You think putting a shopping divider onto the conveyor belt in a different way is unkind?

I didn't see the original thread, but it tickles me that doing something so small that is out of the accepted norm is seen as such a dreadful thing to do.

But there is an accepted norm for a reason - it isn't about people being twitchy so the whole basis for the joke doesn't exist. I don't think it is harmful or anything, I guess I just don't get it.

Now people opening crisp packets the wrong way up - there's an example of something I would be twitchy about for no good reason!

DS1 always used to want his crisps to be opened upside over.

I did the longways divider in sainsburys today. Turned around to talk to daughter and woman in front did a ninja move and snapped it back to "the right way" and turned her back. Daughter nearly wet herself laughing. I then turned it back and held on to it. She reached for it, saw I was holding it, Woman went red, cashier smiled.

I'm going to continue to do this. Didn't get a chance to yesterday in Asda as DH put shopping on the belt.

Given all the anguish about this, I'm surprised nobody has played the SN card. Actually, thinking about it, I have a friend who has Aspergers. She'd LOVE to put the divider the 'wrong' way as it'd give her more perceived personal space. However, she also has OCD so would feel obliged to do things the 'right' way. She tells me how conflicted this makes her feel.

Hahaha mrscosmo. I have OCD and have the internal battle over whether I can play the divider game. But I have started to see it as a healthy challenge for myself. Nothing will go horribly wrong just because the divider is a bit turned. It won't. I'd say I manage it 50% of the time.