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AIBU?

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WIBU to unload my shopping?

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TheRavensFeather · 30/11/2016 20:54

In Asda today. ExDH and I.

Basket with 2 x pizza and 2 teddies. Walking along tills and cashier is saying goodbye to customer. No one else there. Walk to till and see a lanyard thing there. Lady pulls in behind us with one a (small) trolley full of shopping and says 'excuse me! I put my card down to reserve this till'

I just looked at her and unloaded my 4(!) Items.

She said 'well that's not very nice! My card is there!'

DH says 'well I'll just pass it back to you' hands it over
Her - "i have a child here!"
DH - "I have 3 that I need to collect from school"
Her "he is sick! Home from school"
DH - "we're not playing top trumps"
Her "If you dont ask you dont get and besides that's incredibly mean of you to do this when my son is ill"

Son was running about till asking DH why he has 4 kids. (DH said even he doesn't know the answer to that)

Were we being unreasonable?

I was a bit gobsmacked. She was very sure that she was in the right.

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Happymumof3tobe · 30/11/2016 20:57

No you are not being unreasonable. I have never heard if reserving a till before... and if her son was sick she should be home looking after him....

Sparlklesilverglitter · 30/11/2016 20:59

Your DH sounds awesome! I especially love the top trumps comment 😂

Who reserves a fucking till? Silly women! You had 4 items so she didn't have to wait long

JigglyTuff · 30/11/2016 21:00

You don't reserve a till with a lanyard. Laugh at her stupidity. She knows this

Am intrigued by your shopping though :D

GeillisTheWitch · 30/11/2016 21:01

YANBU. If she wasn't ready with her stuff then to the back of the queue with her. You can't reserve a till indefinitely until you're ready, that's ridiculous.

DearMrDilkington · 30/11/2016 21:02

You dh does sound brilliant!
I wish I could think of comebacks as quick as he did!

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TheRavensFeather · 30/11/2016 21:02

DH is a joker. He was chatting away with the little boy. I just couldn't believe she thought leaving a lanyard would give her rights to go first, especially when she had about 30 items to our 4!

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Cagliostro · 30/11/2016 21:05

Reserving a till with a lanyard? :o Funny :o

Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 30/11/2016 21:05

I had similar in Sainsbury's once, unloaded my shopping then noticed a small amount of shopping was already at the far end.

Then a lady came up and shouted at me to remove my shopping and said the assistant should have told me she had reserved the till and would be back.
She then proceeded to unload a not insubstantial amount of shopping and out it all through, tutting at me constantly.
I asked the checkout assistant if she had said anything about reserving the till and he said she just wandered off and he'd been on the point of removing them when she returned.

She was a bit older and unlikely to have a small child. Perhaps it was her mother?

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TheRavensFeather · 30/11/2016 21:07

I knew she was being a nut.

You know when someone does something with such conviction they are right that it makes you question yourself?!

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arethereanyleftatall · 30/11/2016 21:08

Lol, yanbu. Love your dhs answers.

Surely everyone who's ever been shopping before, so everyone, knows you don't save your slot on the travalator.

Sweetwater · 30/11/2016 21:09

I wonder if her lanyard was a special card she'd made to reserve tills.

downwardfacingdog · 30/11/2016 21:10

She was being massively unreasonable! Reserving a till is not a thing. Your DH's responses were fab though.

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TheRavensFeather · 30/11/2016 21:11

Sweet wouldn't that be awesome.

"This lanyard grants the wearer the right to be first at the till. Always. Signed, Me. Princess of the Supermarket"

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BolivarAtasco · 30/11/2016 21:21

I had this in Waitrose a few weeks ago. Got to an empty till, started unloading my basket and there was a woman standing next to the sweets behind the till. I'd not paid her any attention because she was just standing there but as soon as I put my stuff down, she got all stroppy and said she was reserving the till waiting for her DH with the trolley.

I just pointed out that you couldn't reserve a till and carried on but she kept telling me how rude I was and that it was her till and I couldn't just push in. There were only about five things in my basket and it was just ridiculous. As I was about to pay, her DH turned up with a loaded trolley and she demanded he tell me to stop because it was their till.

I've never seen anything like it in my life. Sadly, I couldn't think of anything witty to say so I just laughed at her.

Papergirl1968 · 30/11/2016 21:27

Is he your ex dh - first line says ex dh, rest of it says dh...?

Catsize · 30/11/2016 21:29

We'll probably soon have speedy boarding tills - wave a piece of paper and barge in front of the others.

FurryLittleTwerp · 30/11/2016 21:31

She is probably married to one of those parking-reservers on the other thread.

Bizarre in the extreme.

CotswoldStrife · 30/11/2016 21:33

Catsize
We'll probably soon have speedy boarding tills - wave a piece of paper and barge in front of the others.

I'll still get the HMRC/Customs equivalent of the 'unknown item in bagging area' and end up in the queue

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TheRavensFeather · 30/11/2016 21:34

Not sure how it's really relevant but he's my ex, but still married and good friends. Just easier to write DH in the long run.

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SukiPutTheEarlGreyOn · 30/11/2016 21:44

Did the lanyard happen to have a magical glow surrounded by fairy dust? If the answer is no then it was obviously not the true till reserving lanyard but merely an imposter and YWNBU. If however it was the one, true, all powerful till reserving lanyard that has been disrespected then you will find every queue for the next 30 days will move irritatingly slowly. Just saying.

SouthofMaui · 30/11/2016 21:44

speedy boarding tills

I will need your DH help if people start to reserve tills!

A woman tried to trample me last week. We were waiting at the till, her few items already on the conveyor, mine still in my basket waiting for space to put them, when another till open next to us, and the cashier called out. I just moved there, when she literally pushed me out of the way saying "excuse me! EXCUSE ME", to jump there first. I couldn't stop laughing, told her she was extremely rude, but she just ignored me. The cashier was deeply apologetic and was sorry because she didn't know what to do. I reassured her that avoiding confrontation with that individual was probably the wisest thing to do.

Road rage incidents are so last year, apparently we're entering the era of till rage. God help us.

Papergirl1968 · 30/11/2016 21:44

Just being nosy...

seafoodeatit · 30/11/2016 21:44

YANBU, people are just weird! you can't reserve a till. I was ranted by an angry old couple months ago in sainsburys because ' I was in the 20 items or less isle with a basket that clearly was overflowing', they kept going until the assistant/check out staff intervened, they were so rude! This was in a nearly empty store and I actually had very little in there but it was clothes. I don't know how I kept my mouth shut, hormonal heavily pregnant ladies aren't the best people to accost!

FlappysMammyAndPopeInExile · 30/11/2016 21:46

So - "till reservations" are a "thing".

Dahlietta · 30/11/2016 21:50

Oh god, this reminds me of my MiL. She thinks she can reserve parking spaces in busy car parks by getting out of the car, walking over to a space and standing in it until FiL can drive the car round, and she won't move if anyone else gets their car their first. That's not reasonable, is it? Or do people do this?

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