Supermarket tills

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I was out shopping earlier- quite late in the evening, so there was only one 'manned' till open alongside the self-service checkouts. I had a trolley full. Started putting everything on the conveyer belt when a man started hovering next me with his basket. He was doing a big show of looking at my trolley, looking at his basket and saying, 'oh, erm, this is awkward." Clearly, he wanted me to say it was fine to cut in. If he had 1-2 items, I'd have probably let him. However, as he had 10-15 items in his basket, I pointed out that there were plenty of self-service tills available. He just stood there glaring at me until his gf called him over (she'd headed straight over there when she saw me unpacking).

WIBU not to let him cut in?

No. YWNBU.

No, YWNBU. Just because someone has fewer items than you does not mean they are entitled to go ahead of you.

With 10-15 items, he was being cheeky.

Nah.. if he could have beaten you to the checkout he would have done. He seemed to want to make an issue of it... meanwhile his gf heasded straight for the self service checkout, total non issue, you did right x

YWNBU! He actually said "this is awkward"?! I would have given him a death stare at that point and started unpacking really slowly. Twat.

How entitled! It really is. Argh.

Ok, that's good. I wasn't just being mean then!

Not in this situation as there were free ones. Drives me and in lidl/aldi if I pop in and only have 4 or 5 bits as no basket checkouts or self serve there. I always let people go ahead in that situation if I have a lot. Watched a massive trolley go through the other day ahead of a guy with a single bottle of whiskey and thought that was mean.

Of course YANBU.

When I do a "big" shop I use a manned till. All other times I use self service, that's what it's for. This guy should be embarrassed for behaving like an old person who can't cope with the modern checkout.

Parameters for determining old: I am late 50s and DH is 60. We are NOT old.

But sometimes people won't go ahead Nichelette. I've offered to let people
do that and they have refused

I have often surprised people that had a basket by telling them they could go first. It is partly me being selfish though. If I get to a till and it is empty, I feel rushed to get everything on the belt, while the member of staff is waiting to start scanning. If I let a basket go first it gives me more time and makes me feel less rushed. They have often finished, by the time I have loaded everything on anyway.

In your situation, he was trying to get you to let him go first. That changes everything completely in my book as I don't like people that try to take advantage. I would have made him wait too. YANBU.

That is their choice if you have offered though. If it were me during my lunch break i would thank them very much for their kind offer.

Yeah YANBU.

Something almost identical happened to me the other day.

I was in Asda, (our little one has 12 self serve tills, and no 'normal ones, but an assistant will come and help if you are struggling.)

I wasn't struggling but I had 20 or so items in a big basket. I had a bottle of gin so I asked a lady if she would kindly remove the tag for me. I also had several other things that were awkward to scan. She said 'I may as well put it all through for you.'

Half way through the scanning, this manspreading dickhead, (around 65 y.o.) came and stood RIGHT NEXT to me with 4 or 5 items in a basket, so close to me I could smell his foul breath, I mean like his arm was 3" away from mine, as he hovered around me, huffing and tutting to 'rush me along' so he could get HIS items scanned.

The assistant kept looking up at him and wondered if he had lost something. She said to me (as he gawped into space) 'is he OK?' I said 'excuse me, can I help you?' He completely ignored me, like I wasn't there.

I said to the checkout lady (loudly) 'it's true what they say, when a woman hits middle age she becomes invisible.' She just grinned.

I paid for my transaction, (contactless of course as he was close enough to see my PIN,) and loaded my 20 items as slowly as was humanly possible. He kept jabbing me with his elbow, trying to shove me out of the way.

Unbelievable. What a misogynistic, passive-aggressive, manspreading cunt.

I hope he steps on a piece of fucking lego!