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AIBU to think the customer was unreasonable over the closed checkout due to a child vomited?

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ZML · 04/07/2026 17:05

This morning, whilst queuing at the supermarket checkout , a kid puked over the floor and part of another checkout.

This checkout had to be closed to clean up the vomit and then had some anti bacterial stuff applied. As unsure if the kid has a bug.

Whilst the checkout was being cleaned, a customer who I can only describe as a stuck up bitch, demanded this toll should open. There were other checkouts open with a customer being served and another queueing.

No she demanded to have this checkout open now. Asked for the manager. Couldn’t she see the vomit, the supermarket worker wearing PPE (they come with body fluids cleaning kits) cones etc? She only likes that particular checkout. Didn’t find out why.

Manager said as vomiting happened they have to close the checkout and clean it for HnS reasons. The stuck up bitch refused the reason and left the store - leaving a full, small trolley behind.

Why don’t people understand that it will be wrong if the supermarket carried on serving customers on a checkout with vomit on the floor etc?

How would she cope if on another occasion the checkout was broken?

OP posts:
TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 04/07/2026 17:08

They should’ve just served her and let her catch norovirusrabiesoutbreakus or whatever the poor child was suffering from.

ZML · 04/07/2026 17:08

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 04/07/2026 17:08

They should’ve just served her and let her catch norovirusrabiesoutbreakus or whatever the poor child was suffering from.

Then has no rights to sue!

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SummerFeverVenice · 04/07/2026 17:16

She only likes that particular checkout
refused the reason and left the store - leaving a full, small trolley behind.

To start, I really do not like when the b£#ch word is used on women.
We aren’t dogs, it’s a dehumanising misogynistic slur.

Secondly, her behaviour is not normal. It’s not stuck up. It was mentally ill not normal. I have known sufferers of OCD that have such rigid ways of getting things done. They truly believe that if they don’t do a task exactly the way it must be done, then catastrophe will strike. For example, if you don’t test all the light switches in the house by turning them on and off four times before you go to bed, the house will catch on fire. If you don’t buy food at a certain shop and use a certain till, then you’ll catch food poisoning and die.

So please, in future, when someone is acting irrationally have a bit of sympathy.

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