That people with 1 item stand behain me in the supermarket when I have loads and stare at me as if I should let them go before me when there is a 6 item or less checkout with no one waiting?

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Would you let them go infront of you or make them wait? How dare they give me the guilt treatment!

Behind, not behain! Doh

id have said go
over there its 6 items or less>?

ohhhh was it bloke could he have been maing 'eyes' at you?

Old woman with a packet of bloody mints. Every time I go, there's always one. They must think "ohh, she looks like she's got time and is nice, I'll see if she'll let me jump the que". I wish it was a hot bloke! I did do this once for a cutie but didn't get his number . M&S, old woman, every time. Then they look at you with a sad expression and watch as you pack the bags. I'm going to do it really slowly next week

bugger lol .....old ladies are always buying mints/cat food/tena tho lol

and thet always think that because they are old,it gives them a free pass to Q jump

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It's in your head

No, honest, they stare you out, then look at your food whilst clearing their throat. Have you never noticed. Then they start tutting.

I have to say I almost always let a person with one item go first...but then I'm obviously a self-less women innit!

is there any reason why you wouldn't let her go first?

Reminds me of the time in Marks an old woman was behind me. I had a really heavy basket and she plonked hers on the belt thing before I could. Then she said that maybe it would be easier if she went first as hers was already on there. I'm usually a complete wuss and I may have let her go first but that time I was so annoyed by her pushiness I said, "no it's OK, I'll go first".

Having said that when I was working and in a rush to get my lunch, old ladies would always let me go ahead of them.

I let people with only one item go in front of me unless I am in a real rush and have to be somewhere.

i honestly never notice who's behind me i'm too busy trying to get everything on the belt before ds wakes up!

I never even notice who is behind me in the queue. I'm usually struggling with 2 kids and a huge trolly of shopping though, so i suspect that if anyone only had 1 item they probably wouldnt stand behind me.

I always let them go ahead of me if I notice they only have one or two items.

I would let them go ahead too, but as the OP pointed out, there WAS another checkout available for people with fewer item where NO-ONE was waiting! So I would have pointed it out to them - no need for both of us to wait!

no
if you do they use a card take for ever and hold you up.

This happened to me once. DS2 was sat in the trolley very unhappy and tired. DS1 pinching looking at the sweets at the check out. Trying to load stuff on.

Man behind me says I've only got a box of cream cakes can I go in front of you? There were handbasket checkouts further up with no one there, so I said no and he was not amused.

He had literally walked down the cake isle to the first available checkout which happened to be the one that I was at.

I will happily let someone go in front of me if I see there is a greater need than mine.

if someone asks nicely, I will let them go in front if there's no express checkout

if someone has a crying baby/toddler I will offer to let them go first

I will ignore anyone who gives me The Look for not letting them go first. If they're the sort to give me The Look, they're also the sort to pay for their one or two items with a card, which they will extract slowly after the items have run through, then they will ask for cash back, then they will put card and cash away, then they will pack their custard creams and tinned soup into their holdall. All of this will be done at the checkout instead of just to the side.

I once had a basket of stuff and a wriggling toddler and an old bloke behind me with 3 things in his hands asked if he could go in front.

I shocked myself by saying no .. I only had about 7 things and DD was about to kick off so felt it was far easier for him to wait an extra 3 mins than me to wait an extra 2

But I still felt guilty for days

Nah you owe them nothing! What if 10 people came with 1 item, where do you draw the line?

People are very restrained in the UK. Here in Nigeria, someone with one item will just barge past you in the queue and plonk their cake or carry-out rice or Coke on the check-out, without so much as an 'excuse me'. I now tell them off and they shuffle off to the back of the queue, muttering 'Sorry, Madam.'.

If I notice that they only have one item then I let them go first even if I'm in a rush because I feel guilty if I don't!! However you have every right to be upset when there was a till with no-one there. I would have pointed it out to them if they were really that dim - nice old lady or not.

My husband worked in a cash 'n carry shop near a taxi rank in SA - during one of the hottest days ever, the shop was as busy as hell and one of the customers was buying bulk ice ..

wish he had pushed in or done something, because by the time he got to the checkout, it was just bags of water...

It isn't like the mints are going to expire and pretty unreasonble for the woman to expect you to make way for her...

I dont mind letting ppl in front who've just got one thing, if I've got time, but I wouldnt like "The Look" and would probably ignore it. That's because I always just ask when I've just got one thing and I've got the brass neck to do it.

But if there was an empty checkout nearby I would go there, and so should anyone else. If they cant be arsed its their problem.