Supermarket etiquette

[ASeriesOfTubes]

You're in the vegetation section of Tescbury's, because tomatoes are on your shopping list. Someone else has them on their list too, though, and is already picking some out of the crate. Do you:
A) wait?
B) say to them "excuse me", then without waiting for a reaction reach in and start picking some for yourself, then get huffy when they suggest that keeping your mitts out until they finish picking theirs is unlikely to ruin your day?

Asking for a friend.

B 🤣

Excuse me i need tomatoes, the end

B

B because I am usually trying to get out quickly, I wouldn’t get huffy though, I’d just say a cheery thems the breaks.

I like the idea of a vegetation section though. V Jurassic park

A. I hate bad manners.

I’m the idiot who does A then finds that someone else will muscle in front, or come from the other side, and do B.

Depends how big the crate is surely? Is there space for 2 to pick comfortably?

No!

Ram my trolley into their legs and take all the tomatoes while they writhe in agony on the ground. Shout you snooze you lose as I career off running over their outstretched twitching hands.

I get my shopping delivered. This is never an issue for me!

A. Just wait your turn. A minute or so wont harm you.
Change the scenario to using the public loos. Do you wait your turn or do you insist on sharing a cubicle thats already occupied? 😂
Someone else got there first, be patient!

But you don't get to choose your own tomatoes. Swings and roundabouts.

C - go and get something else nearby and come back because people faffing when they can see I'm also waiting may make me unreasonably resort to one of the suggestions above.

If they’re picking up every tomato and examining it, I passive aggressively firmly but politely reach around them and get my tomatoes. I don’t have time for dillying.

Depends how slow they are being. I have been know just to dip in and grab what I want. We ain't all got time to form orderly queues for everything.

@ASeriesOfTubes Next time don’t take forever to choose your tomatoes!

I’m guessing B waited patiently for ages while you thumped and sniffed each perspective specimen and waited for divine intervention to confirm your choice before finally realizing they were losing precious time from their life they’d never get back.

😂😂😂

@saltinesandcoffeecups Next time don’t take forever to choose your tomatoes!

I didn't. Those people annoy me too, but I don't barge in past them.

Why not? Do they keep their tomatoes in match boxes?

I've had similar with the yellow label section, someone in front so I'm waiting then others start to reach over and jump in

You forgot mutter ‘FFS it’s a goddamn tomato not the holy grail“ as you wander off. 🤣

I'm more likely to stand and wait, loudly tutting. How long does it take?!
Sheesh.

Another enemy ticked off the list.

I didn't even want tomatoes, it's just an odd hobby to brighten the shopping experience.

A.

i don't like tomatoes, nasty angry acid balls

Yes, my local Tescbury's displays all their fresh produce in old Swan Vesta containers. The fun bit is pulling the drawer part out to see if they have any of it left, but it does mean they have to break the celery sticks.