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AIBU?

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to have "jumped the queue"?

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PyongyangKipperbang · 19/04/2021 22:56

AT the supermarket, get to the till with a full trolley and there is a basket left by the till.

No one about so after waiting for the guy in front, I start unloading, I had almost finished unloading when a woman comes and picks up the basket and says that she was in the queue and it was her turn.

I said that I had been there a while, there was no one around so sorry but I have unloaded. She was clearly very pissed off and thought I was being massively unreasonable. She said to the woman behind me something about queue jumping, which imo is what SHE was doing not me!

So should I have let her go in front or stuck to my guns?

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PyongyangKipperbang · 19/04/2021 22:57

I should add it was on the floor out of the way and look for all the world like it had been dumped not actually on the till.

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Tealightsandd · 19/04/2021 23:01

She can't expect people to stand there waiting for someone to come back goodness knows when. For all you knew the basket could've been abandoned.

KihoBebiluPute · 19/04/2021 23:01

Nah she was being cheeky. You're fine. Don't worry about it.

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PyongyangKipperbang · 19/04/2021 23:03

I assumed it had been abandoned!

It was at least ....3 minutes between me getting there and her getting back so its not like she just legged it back up the aisle and back, if she had got back before the guy in front was done I would have let her in, but ffs she was ages!

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2Rebecca · 19/04/2021 23:03

No you don't keep your place in the queue by dumping a basket or towel down and wandering off. She should have taken her basket with her

TheYearOfSmallThings · 19/04/2021 23:04

She was being ridiculous. For all you knew, she had come out without her purse an abandoned that basket.

Mollymalone123 · 19/04/2021 23:04

If she didn’t leave it in a prominent position and wasn’t back in time to unload then she forfeits her place in the queue-I assume she forgot something and went off to find it?Hard cheese!

HarrietHardy · 19/04/2021 23:05

She should have gone to the Express or Self Scan tills anyway, or used Scan&Sob, not left bloody abandoned trip hazards lying around.

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PyongyangKipperbang · 19/04/2021 23:05

We've all forgotten stuff and it is annoying to have to queue again but thats what I do!

Glad I wasnt being the out and out bitch she clearly thought I was!

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HarrietHardy · 19/04/2021 23:07

Honestly, you're fine, @PyongyangKipperbang.

Orchidflower1 · 19/04/2021 23:08

You did the right thing op.

OwlinaTree · 19/04/2021 23:13

@HarrietHardy

She should have gone to the Express or Self Scan tills anyway, or used Scan&Sob, not left bloody abandoned trip hazards lying around.

Is Scan&Sob a typo? That's how I end up after using the self scan!

StillCoughingandLaughing · 19/04/2021 23:14

If she’d suddenly thought, ‘Shit, I’ve forgotten the teabags’, there was nothing to stop her saying to you (or whoever was behind her) ‘Do you mind if I quickly run and grab the teabags?’, then fine. But she can’t just plonk a basket down to ‘reserve’ her place in the queue and then go for a wander to see if there’s anything else she fancies.

EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 19/04/2021 23:22

I was in a queue the other day, realised I'd forgotten eggs, left my basket - but explained to the woman behind me & went and got them. But there was no chance she'd have gotten to the point of being served before I got back; some people are odd.

HarrietHardy · 19/04/2021 23:34

Is Scan&Sob a typo? That's how I end up after using the self scan!

Not a typo, and I appreciate you empathising with my pain.

My local Asda has 'Scan and Go', where you have your own magic wand as you zip around shopping, and pack your own stuff as you go. You then go into the Special Area to ping a till and pay quickly by card. And, well, go.

At least, such is the theory.

The reality is that the magic wand, should one miraculously be available, breaks down somewhere in the bread aisle. While you're staring at your wand's lifeless form, a trolley from behind gets rammed up your arse, and having limped to the tills you find there's no-one there to authorise your bottle of wine and you get a 'quality check' of doom and even after that you set the alarms off because they didn't take the tag off the Sunday roast and you haven't got a receipt because you didn't press 'yes' in time on the bloody till monitor. I thought it was just me.

memberofthewedding · 20/04/2021 00:05

The informal rules of queuing are that if you have to temporarily step out of the line for some reason and you are alone you ask the person in front or behind to keep your place. Ive had to do this several times in the past as I am a lone person.

You cant leave an inanimate object to keep your place. As several posters have remarked that could simply be an abandoned basket. I have seen people move such carts out of line and push them to one side.

osbertthesyrianhamster · 20/04/2021 00:09

Nah, fuck that! You don't bloody save a place in a queue by parking your basket or trolley there. CFer

prawntoastie · 20/04/2021 00:20

She’s an entitled idiot.
You had time to unload meaning she was to long, it that’s the case anyone could leave a basket in the queue and go round do their shopping then when they’re done they have the same spot

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PyongyangKipperbang · 20/04/2021 00:44

Actually, I wonder how the woman behind felt because she was there before the basket woman came back, I wouldnt have been happy if she had just decided to go in front on the basis if the space-saving-basket. Basket woman stomped off to another till which I assumed at the time was because there was an empty conveyor belt, but perhaps not as the woman behind her would surely have moved to it?

Perhaps she got short shrift from the other woman too and moved out of embarrassment?! Its only just occurred to me!

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PyongyangKipperbang · 20/04/2021 00:47

And it was a supermarket without Scan&Sob (love that!) and with a packing shelf.......

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chatw00 · 20/04/2021 02:39

so you're expected to wait behind the empty basket, until the owner turns up? I don't think so! And you'd end up getting aggravated people behind you, wondering why you aren't moving forward.

It would be lovely to be able to be so privileged and have one's own queue

AnotherKrampus · 20/04/2021 03:28

Nah, you're ok. I always push any baskets left out of the way and proceed if there is no one around. If you are not ready and done with the actual shopping, it is utter CFery to try and place a basket on hold. Mind you, I have even helped myself to interesting stuff out of 'abandoned' stray baskets, zero fucks given...

Aprilx · 20/04/2021 03:55

If we are shopping together and have forgotten something, one of us goes to get it and the other proceeds in the queue. If I am by myself I would abandon my place in the queue or if I know exactly where it is and can get there quickly, I might wait until I am at the checkout, but less likely as then I would be worried about not keeping up with packing. You cannot just plop a basket in a queue and then wander off to pick up items.

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