etiquette at the self-service till...

[mollypollly]

OK ladies, I know this is petty but bear with me...

I've just come back from waitrose where I bought a few bits and bobs at the self check-out (about 3 bags worth, plus a couple of bigger items I couldn't bag-up).

So once I'd paid I then started to load the stuff up onto/underneath the pushchair (I was not taking my time over this - in fact I was desperate to get out as DD was due a feed so I was on borrowed time). It's also worth noting that there wasn't really a queue (about 2 people queuing for 4 tills)

But before I could even lift the first bag off, the woman who was next in the queue came charging over, plonked her basket down and started trying to scan her stuff through - then huffed and puffed that a couple of my bits were still in the way.

AIBU to think she could have given me one minute just to sort myself out without getting in my way, slowing me down and stressing me out?! I know this is super petty but it really annoyed me...

We swear a lot here too. And putting one anther down is seen as affection.

My poor foreign DH struggled so much with it when he arrived!

grocklebox I think you are right. There is often a degree of competitive business with people, to stress just how important they believe themselves to be. It's like when people make snidey comments to you because they discover you have read a book/baked a cake/ mopped your kitchen floor (insert mundane everyday thing of your choice) and they feel the need to say 'oh, it must be wonderful to have time to bake a cake, I'm so busy with work I couldn't dream of baking a cake'. Same folk are never too busy to eat the cake though, which takes about the same length of time

that should be busyness, shouldn't it?

I had an absolutely obnoxious woman in the queue behind me at a Tesco in Dublin a few months ago. I am actually really quick at these queues as I'm very self conscious about holding people up. On this occasion I had quickly scanned my groceries and then packed them (as this particular store's SS till doesn't allow packing until all groceries scanned). When I was paying I thought the amount sounded quite high so went to get the receipt from the dispenser at which stage I noticed the woman behind had plonked her basket on the till. I reached over her and realised that a lot of receipts had been left stuck in the dispenser and others had fallen onto the shelf below so I quickly looked through them to get mine at which stage she sighed, took her basket off the till and said "could you Be any slower?"
I told her she was very rude and I was going as quickly as I could but she stood there with a cat's bum face. I agree that some people take forever at the tills and that's annoying; but so are the 'out of my way. I'm in a hurry' brigade. There's a happy medium.

We've just come back from a trip to Asda this morning. We don't often go there as it's so busy and all the red-and-yellow signs & loud music freak us out (we're quiet souls!) We were standing in a very long queue for a till, near two staff dressed in bright yellow jackets with 'Happy To Help' written on them in huge black letters. One turned and said loudly to the other "I'm bloody knackered already!" I replied, "You and me both, sunshine!" She was absolutely horrified that I'd heard. I bet she was wetting herself thinking I'd report her. Her jacket should've said 'Happy To Bloody Help'.

icimoi - I'm with you. I'd have slowed up just to annoy that rude woman AND given her a f-you glance! No-one can be in that much of a hurry esp on those self-service checkouts which I hate more than rude women!

I always end up talking to the stupid things when they object to me making their store the last on my list, so using my own bag becomes a contest between "are you using your own bag" and "unexpected item in bagging area". I'll kick your bagging area if you don't let me use my own bag!

I don't think I've noticed grocklebox being arsey.

Nor you ClawHandsIfYouBelieveInFreaks though I think you're a festive namechange.

I'm only stepping in only because I sometimes get accused of being a cow and I generally don't mean it.

But sometimes I do

I'm a SAHM. Honestly it's quite boring, so to spice up my day I like to go to Sainsbury's local at lunchtime and do my weekly shop. Then I choose a self service till for my trolley. Of course I use all my own bags so I have to adjust them properly before I begin. Often I haven't got enough of something for the special offer, so I might pop back to get it. Then when it comes to paying of course I have all my nectar vouchers to sort out.

And you know what Babycham? I do all this to fuck with YOU, for my own entertainment. Passes the day y'know (by the way, are you a man? You write like a man).

Do you get your children to scan your shopping plantsitter?

Only the baby. The others are too efficient.

The Tesco ones allow you to place the smaller trolleys next to the scanner - they're designed that way - the shelf you'd place your basket on slides under the trolley. So, they're not just meant for single baskets.

I always end up talking to the stupid things when they object to me making their store the last on my list, so using my own bag becomes a contest between "are you using your own bag" and "unexpected item in bagging area". I'll kick your bagging area if you don't let me use my own bag!

Can't stop laughing at this. I've muttered Shut the Fcuk Up at that cheery voice in the self service till occasionally. I've never threatened to kick it in the bagging area though .

(And yes, even with the volume turned down, I can still hear them screeching at me to remove items etc).

Snorting at Squoosh's checkout couple. Brilliant.