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Grocery Store - Leaving a line and trying to get back in
October 20, 2018 at
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Several times over the years I have had people leave the line with the stuff they want to buy in front of me and then expect to get the spot they *HAD* back. Why are people so selfish and if this is you that does this, tell me WHY you think you can morally do this and get think that you just come right back where you were? If you do this, why inconvenience others to have to move the items you want to buy?
Why not do what I do if I forget to get an item? :
1. I stay in line and buy those items, then go back to get the forgotten item and then go to the self-check out or 10 items or less line to check it out.
2. I take my entire basket of items and get out of the line to go get the item.
3. I get it next time.
This is what I do. I expect others to respect me the way I respect their time.
The other day, I was at Target. This man just up and left the line, he had items he wanted to purchase on the conveyor belt. I moved the items he wanted to purchase and put mine in front of his. He didn't say a word. While that turned out ok since he didn't say anything to me, it inconvenienced my life to have to move them. I shouldn't have to do this since he should have moved it since he just left it there. He was gone a good minute a least or so, not just a few seconds either.
I had another situation where a man had a big box at Walmart in the garden center area in front of me in line and another man that was checking out in front of him, so I was third in line. The man in front of me with the big box said to the cashier he'd be right back to get a shopping cart, but asked or told me nothing. He was gone for around a minute to a minute and a half at least since he had to go all the way to the other entrance to get a shopping cart since we were in the garden center.
I moved up, because he left the line. He comes back eventually and says to me something like this "Ma'am I was there before you." I told him "You left the line, you leave a line you lose the spot you had." I couldn't believe that the jerk in front of me was on his side which by the time then was paying. I don't understand why they think BOXES that are the property of WALMART hold their spots since they don't actually have spots if you leave?
If you think about it, on Black Friday for example, if "THINGS" held your spot, No one would go through the huge trouble of camping out for days on end for the sales, would they? They'd just leave, for example, a back pack or suit case or even a shopping cart or what have you with their name on it and return the next morning instantly have the first spot in line. He'd come back that morning time the store opens(like if it's 4a.m., they'd come back at 3:55a.m. to reclaim their spot). But in real life as we all know, real life DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!! I am right, they were wrong.
I couldn't fathom myself when I leave a line that I should be able to reclaim the spot I had. I mean for example, if I was at Burger King, let's say 1 person was in front of me, another customer was ordering at the time. Let's say I forgot my purse. I go to my car real fast get it, come back. Now there's another person in line that wasn't there. I couldn't FATHOM going up to that person and telling them "I was there, that was my spot." I would get in the back of the line, because once I left the line, I had no more spot. That's how it really works. I have NEVER did something like that before in my LIFETIME and COULD NEVER FATHOM DOING THAT!!
I really feel like the man that left the line should have been MUCH MORE *****RESPONSIBLE***** in that if he needed a shopping cart, he should have gone to get one ***BEFORE**** he decided to get into a line. Also, he didn't ask if it was OK with me either, he just told the cashier which makes no sense at all. It would not have been OK with me since that's not how lines work. WHY do people think that it's "THEIR SPOT" when they aren't in line anymore? WHY are people like this?
My time is important to me too and as I said, I just don't do this kind of behavior if I leave a line. I don't think that I can just swoop back in like I never left. Lines don't EVER work that way unless someone is HOLDING the spot for you.
Also, let's say no one was there in line behind him when he did this and then I would have gotten there while he was gone, you want to make a bet he wouldn't have told me anything??? You know why, because I was there when he left, that's why he thought he could say something. WHY is that? If you are an irresponsible shopper to get everything you need **BEFORE** you enter the line, that's not my problem. I have lots of times forgotten items, but I choose to NOT EVER EVER inconvenience anyone else's lives over it though, that's the difference I am not SELFISH like these people are to just ONLY thinking of themselves and their time! I don't act like they should hold the spot I had. They are strangers and I don't expect them to care about me in that manner since they are strangers, not my friends or family. I could see if the man had asked me to hold his spot, I would have said "No", I am not going to hold your spot" and I also would have suggested him buy the box and have the cashier just hold it right by her register. I have had cashiers before watch my basket while I went with a manager to prove a wrong price on a shelf before and the cashier didn't let anyone steal my stuff(since I did pay for it at that point it was my stuff, not the store's items). That's one thing he could have done as well, but he chose to leave a LONG TIME all the way to the other entrance. Why should I care about his time if he was this mean to confront me? I am GLAD the jerk had to wait. He deserved it. What hurt though was that the man in front of me actually agreed with him. The cashier though didn't get involved. You know why she didn't get in involved, because I was right, that's why. If I would have been wrong, she would have corrected me, for sure.
WHY, do you do this if you do this? WHY if you do this, why are you so SELFISH and inconvenience other people's lives over it if **YOU** forgot something or didn't get a shopping cart? I wouldn't EVER do that to you, so don't do it to me! WHY is the world so selfish? Can't people be thoughtful of other people's time to inconvenience THEMSELVES if they forget or don't get a cart first? Why inconvenience my life because **YOU** didn't get a shopping cart BEFORE you got in line? NOT MY PROBLEM! WHY inconvenience my life if you forgot to get an item? NOT MY PROBLEM! Don't delay my life for yours when I have NEVER and WILL NEVER do that to you! Treat others as you'd like to be treated if they were you.
So please tell me WHY you think you have a moral right to do this if you are one of those people that does this kind of stuff? I'd like to know your answer honestly and why you wouldn't do what I do instead of being so selfish? Why not be CONSIDERATE of other people's time and feelings by not delaying their lives for yours? Also, WHY O' WHY do you people that do this think "OBJECTS" hold the spot you had, especially ones you don't even own yet?
Why not do what I do if I forget to get an item? :
1. I stay in line and buy those items, then go back to get the forgotten item and then go to the self-check out or 10 items or less line to check it out.
2. I take my entire basket of items and get out of the line to go get the item.
3. I get it next time.
This is what I do. I expect others to respect me the way I respect their time.
The other day, I was at Target. This man just up and left the line, he had items he wanted to purchase on the conveyor belt. I moved the items he wanted to purchase and put mine in front of his. He didn't say a word. While that turned out ok since he didn't say anything to me, it inconvenienced my life to have to move them. I shouldn't have to do this since he should have moved it since he just left it there. He was gone a good minute a least or so, not just a few seconds either.
I had another situation where a man had a big box at Walmart in the garden center area in front of me in line and another man that was checking out in front of him, so I was third in line. The man in front of me with the big box said to the cashier he'd be right back to get a shopping cart, but asked or told me nothing. He was gone for around a minute to a minute and a half at least since he had to go all the way to the other entrance to get a shopping cart since we were in the garden center.
I moved up, because he left the line. He comes back eventually and says to me something like this "Ma'am I was there before you." I told him "You left the line, you leave a line you lose the spot you had." I couldn't believe that the jerk in front of me was on his side which by the time then was paying. I don't understand why they think BOXES that are the property of WALMART hold their spots since they don't actually have spots if you leave?
If you think about it, on Black Friday for example, if "THINGS" held your spot, No one would go through the huge trouble of camping out for days on end for the sales, would they? They'd just leave, for example, a back pack or suit case or even a shopping cart or what have you with their name on it and return the next morning instantly have the first spot in line. He'd come back that morning time the store opens(like if it's 4a.m., they'd come back at 3:55a.m. to reclaim their spot). But in real life as we all know, real life DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!! I am right, they were wrong.
I couldn't fathom myself when I leave a line that I should be able to reclaim the spot I had. I mean for example, if I was at Burger King, let's say 1 person was in front of me, another customer was ordering at the time. Let's say I forgot my purse. I go to my car real fast get it, come back. Now there's another person in line that wasn't there. I couldn't FATHOM going up to that person and telling them "I was there, that was my spot." I would get in the back of the line, because once I left the line, I had no more spot. That's how it really works. I have NEVER did something like that before in my LIFETIME and COULD NEVER FATHOM DOING THAT!!
I really feel like the man that left the line should have been MUCH MORE *****RESPONSIBLE***** in that if he needed a shopping cart, he should have gone to get one ***BEFORE**** he decided to get into a line. Also, he didn't ask if it was OK with me either, he just told the cashier which makes no sense at all. It would not have been OK with me since that's not how lines work. WHY do people think that it's "THEIR SPOT" when they aren't in line anymore? WHY are people like this?
My time is important to me too and as I said, I just don't do this kind of behavior if I leave a line. I don't think that I can just swoop back in like I never left. Lines don't EVER work that way unless someone is HOLDING the spot for you.
Also, let's say no one was there in line behind him when he did this and then I would have gotten there while he was gone, you want to make a bet he wouldn't have told me anything??? You know why, because I was there when he left, that's why he thought he could say something. WHY is that? If you are an irresponsible shopper to get everything you need **BEFORE** you enter the line, that's not my problem. I have lots of times forgotten items, but I choose to NOT EVER EVER inconvenience anyone else's lives over it though, that's the difference I am not SELFISH like these people are to just ONLY thinking of themselves and their time! I don't act like they should hold the spot I had. They are strangers and I don't expect them to care about me in that manner since they are strangers, not my friends or family. I could see if the man had asked me to hold his spot, I would have said "No", I am not going to hold your spot" and I also would have suggested him buy the box and have the cashier just hold it right by her register. I have had cashiers before watch my basket while I went with a manager to prove a wrong price on a shelf before and the cashier didn't let anyone steal my stuff(since I did pay for it at that point it was my stuff, not the store's items). That's one thing he could have done as well, but he chose to leave a LONG TIME all the way to the other entrance. Why should I care about his time if he was this mean to confront me? I am GLAD the jerk had to wait. He deserved it. What hurt though was that the man in front of me actually agreed with him. The cashier though didn't get involved. You know why she didn't get in involved, because I was right, that's why. If I would have been wrong, she would have corrected me, for sure.
WHY, do you do this if you do this? WHY if you do this, why are you so SELFISH and inconvenience other people's lives over it if **YOU** forgot something or didn't get a shopping cart? I wouldn't EVER do that to you, so don't do it to me! WHY is the world so selfish? Can't people be thoughtful of other people's time to inconvenience THEMSELVES if they forget or don't get a cart first? Why inconvenience my life because **YOU** didn't get a shopping cart BEFORE you got in line? NOT MY PROBLEM! WHY inconvenience my life if you forgot to get an item? NOT MY PROBLEM! Don't delay my life for yours when I have NEVER and WILL NEVER do that to you! Treat others as you'd like to be treated if they were you.
So please tell me WHY you think you have a moral right to do this if you are one of those people that does this kind of stuff? I'd like to know your answer honestly and why you wouldn't do what I do instead of being so selfish? Why not be CONSIDERATE of other people's time and feelings by not delaying their lives for yours? Also, WHY O' WHY do you people that do this think "OBJECTS" hold the spot you had, especially ones you don't even own yet?
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when you missed those price mistake deals?
All this time I thought that was just a glitch in the software.
All this time I thought that was just a glitch in the software.
I think if their time is so valuable they should find more efficient ways to shop versus getting mad at other people for having to wait. Numerous places deliver groceries and other essentials now. So why not use one of those services?
Besides which if the line is moving slow as hell, who is harmed if the person in front of you jumps out of line to grab one thing they forgot if the person in front of them aren't even done with their order yet?
You truly don't get it. I want to be first just like EVERYONE ELSE and NEVER WAIT, so if the person leaves the line, that's my opportunity to be ahead of them and not wait as long. Do you really not understand why it bothers me? That is the harm, that I didn't get to be first if they left, my turn now and also if I have to move their stuff to be where they **WERE**, that's mean to my time that I have to move the stuff they were going to buy. They should have moved the stuff they were going to buy and not just left it there, that's inconsiderate and lazy of them.
As far as time goes, if I am in line somewhere, I value my time much more than here when I am just sitting and typing. Also, if I didn't want to be on this forum, I wouldn't be. For me, it's fun to be on message boards to prove people wrong. That's why I do it. It is not fun, however, to be in a line. NOBODY on this EARTH loves waiting, even you, so don't act like you do. If you'd never have to wait, wouldn't life be much nicer?
So the harm is that I don't want to have to wait behind them and if they left, that gives me more time in my life to do what I want by not waiting as long in line, DUHH! As I said, no one should have to explain COMMON SENSE to you.
Now have I had people that have let me in front of them before, a few times in my life and some I even turned down since I don't do this anymore so I try to make the playing field fair by not accepting the invitation to get ahead of them in line. Some people have insisted and refused to take "no" for an answer so then I had to go next.
Most people are not kind though. I am tired of people that delay your day for whatever they want whether it's a parking space, going into a lane instead of making a u-turn or going a little further to turn around or waiting at a median to not block traffic to get over, etc. To leave the line with the items they want to buy still there is SELFISH, IT'S JUST PLAIN SELFISH and you cannot TELL ME that's not selfish, because it SURE THE HELL IS! There's no reason to do that than for them to want to reclaim the spot with the items that the store owns. You cannot do that on Black Friday just leave the shopping cart or a let's say an umbrella with your name on it to reclaim your spot when the store opens at 4a.m. or something like that, so why if you can't there, you should be able to reclaim the spot you had any other time in stores. A line is a line and you have to either be there or someone you know is holding your spot for you. I have even heard of on the internet that people have paid some homeless people to hold their spot for them even. A real live person has to be there to hold a spot. An object cannot hold a spot. Especially one you don't even own yet even more so and that's what these customers are doing. That box was Walmart's box and the man at Target that was Target's items that neither person paid for yet even. How is this not a SELFISH ACT? Please tell me HOW are people being kind?
Next post I will post another story, probably will be tldr kind of thing, but it's to show you the world is not a kind and nice place to be. I felt it was too long to put into this post.
One day I was in line at a store(Target) to return something with my basket of a few items. A lady was in front of me. They had this elastic band to show where the line was so you would have to literally go underneath it to get out the line. They had outside the line further away towards the window and door area some recycle bins. The lady that was in front of me had other people that were being checked out at the returns area ahead of her. This lady was SOOOOO VERY IMPATIENT she decided to actually get out the line to put something in the recycle bin. So what I did since she actually DID TRULY get out the line, I moved the basket she had and moved the one I was using in front of hers then I went in front of my basket and WOW she THREW A HISSY FIT literally trying to get in front of me as if she just didn't get out the line. She was "I was only gone for a few seconds." I told her "You could easily wait to do this AFTER or have done it BEFORE you got in line." "You leave a line, you lose your spot." I also told her" I **********NEVER*********************** leave lines and expect to *******************EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER*********** get the spot I ****HAD***(PAST TENSE) back. When I have forgotten something either I check out what I do have and go back to get what I forgot, then go in to like the 10 items or less line or self-check out OR I decide to next time get it. I don't act like I am supposed to get back in the spot for ANY REASON. I don't care WHAT reason she had. There were times I saw like a dime on the ground and decided not to leave the line because I knew if I left the line, I would lose my spot and it wasn't worth 10 cents to leave the line for. I even made an example to her that if I forgot my money in car at Burger King, would I just be able to come back as if I never left and especially if someone else that wasn't in line made it before she came back that's another thing. She went ballistic crazy acting as if I did something horrible when she is the person that decided to be TOO IMPATIENT to WAIT until AFTER she was done with her return. So she would have had to take 5 seconds or so after she returned her items to put the items in the recycle bin, WOW, I don't get WHY her time was MORE PRECIOUS than ANYONE ELSE'S IN THIS UNIVERSE that she thought she could just magically come back without even ASKING if it was OK with me? I do mind since my time is important to me just as hers is. I don't ***EVER*** do this to another person in the world and that's why I feel so strongly as to why I did it. My time is important too and I would have loved to save seconds doing something else like reading a magazine for a few minutes instead of staring into space or something until the next person in line. I don't do that though. I don't care if it's 5 seconds you are gone, you left the line so you lose the spot you had. That's how lines work.
If you think about when they have black friday how people are with lines. You don't leave and expect to get back in unless you have someone you are with holding the spot for you.
This lady was so loud I was afraid she was going to get us both banned, so I just told the lady to be quite about it and "stop this." Then, get this, she again this time asking the cashiers since there were people behind her now, "Can I go put these other bags I have in the recycle bin and be able to come back in line?" I couldn't believe this lady? She was bitching and complaining the entire time. I would do this again in a heartbeat, because I don't go outside the line once or twice and expect to just come back in line as if I NEVER LEFT. That has NEVER been how lines work. You don't leave. The store's shopping cart doesn't hold the spot you had if you had a shopping cart(she did). On black friday, I don't see people leaving shopping carts the night before and just coming back to reclaim the spot, I see them camping out to make sure they have their spot. So if I was in the wrong, NO ONE would camp outside in the cold if that was the case. Also, the cashiers of the return's line would have corrected me and they didn't say a word, because this lady was making a SCENE in the store LOUD like a LUNATIC as if someone just stole something from her or hurt her physically when NONE of that occurred.
WHY do you think they have the elastic line barriers? To show "THIS IS THE LINE and OUTSIDE OF THIS IS NOT THE LINE." That's why they have it.
I just cannot believe how IMPATIENT this lady was?? Why was it such a big deal to save 5 seconds(maybe 7 seconds if you count her 2nd trip out the line later on) that she could have just done that AFTER she finished her return? I don't quite get why should the person behind her has to give a care about her time when she sure didn't care about my time or the people that ended up being behind her? She was so SELFISH herself. We ended up having the 2 cashiers free at the same time so we got our turns at the same time anyway so then when I was in line still since my situation I got a manager involved for my price matches, she called me a "bitch" as she left. That was sooooo IMMATURE of her and IDIOTIC. Especially when our turns ended up being at the same time since both cashiers finished at the same time so we both got to go up at the same time.
I don't quite get why she was so mad about it and why her precious 5 seconds savings had to be done while she was in line only to get out the line to do that and why she didn't just do it BEFORE she got in line or AFTER? I don't quite get this? It's like WOW lady, you are that impatient I thought to myself? I don't get out of lines no matter what as I said before, I just don't. I don't expect the shopping cart or even my jacket to hold the spot that I was in to get something. I have NEVER ONCE done this and I am 41yrs old. I have been around LOTS of lines and NEVER ONCE left a line and expected the spot I ************************HAD******************************************** back as if I never left. I NEVER have done this before. I always if I had to leave the line, either go back in the same line back of the line or go to another line. I don't do this kind of a thing. I also don't get the RUSHINESS of this lady? If she didn't have time, she should not have recycled first of all since by law you don't have to do this, secondly, if you don't have time to return something, go next time you go to the store, thirdly, as I said why not do it after you get out the line or before you get in line? WHY leave a line and then expect to get back in just because the basket that is OWNED BY THE STORE is going to hold the spot you had and WHY they have the elastic band to show where the line is if you can truly leave the line?
This was the most ridiculous thing and she acted like I was wrong. I wasn't wrong. As I said before, if I was wrong then EVERYONE could do this and leave the basket they have the items in they want and not be there in line. I don't care if it was a few seconds. I don't do it, I expect others to do the same to respect my time that I take time away from my life to do things afterwards or before I get in line, she should too.
Also, my time is VERY IMPORTANT to me JUST AS HERS IS and if I can get a spot in line faster, WHY NOT? She didn't care about my time or the other people that came after her either. If she did, she would have either waited until she finished her return or done it beforehand or if she wanted to do it then, she should have gotten out the line with the cart and went into the back of the line. That's how MORALLY it SHOULD HAVE BEEN and she didn't do that.
Another story was at Walmart. I was waiting in a VERY LONG line like probably 15-20 minutes. As I was paying with my credit card so the machine had to do it's thing so it took some moments to process, this lady came up to get an item that apparently she had forgotten. I couldn't believe my eyes. The cashier actually ended up ringing her up and the customer didn't even say anything. If that would have been me next, I sure the HELL WOULD have said "That's cutting, she needs to go to another checkout line, we have been waiting for like 20 minutes and all the people behind us." I don't understand why the cashier did that? If I were the cashier, I would have told the lady she needed to either get in the back of the line or go into another line(perhaps either self checkout or 10 items or less line). It's the principle of it. It's sure not fair and this lady was NOT in line when I nor the person behind me was in line. It's like this lady was gone for probably 25 minutes or so and just appeared. I have ALWAYS lived on MORALS AND PRINCIPLES to do the MORALLY RIGHT THING. I didn't get involved since it wasn't my turn that was altered since I had to get home myself, but would have been furious and if the cashier would have done this, I would have made a complaint to a manager about it for sure. I am not sure if they would have cared, but it IS TRULY the wrong moral thing to do. Cutting is cutting and you can't just leave, then get back in line. I don't care if it's one item, that's time taking away from someone else's life. We all have things to do. Our time is precious, especially if you are at Walmart you wait your life away in line at Walmart when you go at busy times like after work at night time like it was probably 6p.m. or later. It was VERY BUSY as I said how long we were waiting in line. I felt bad for this guy. I almost was going to invite him in front of me since he had less but I had a lot of things to do at home and it was late as it was, plus I had been waiting in line a long time already. I am sure glad I didn't though, because then that would have maybe happened to me if I would have done that. I felt bad for the guy, because we had waited a VERY LONG TIME and then finally when he was going to get his turn, the cashier decides to let this lady cut. I don't understand the mean world? WHY would a cashier do this? The cashier should have told the lady that she had to go into another line or get behind the line as I said. I know that's what I would have done for SURE without ANY DOUBTS in my mind what-so-ever. That's just the right thing to do. I don't care if she was in line before, she wasn't anymore and that was the entire point. This was even worse in a way than the other situation, because this lady was gone for maybe a half an hour who knows and then pops back in as if she didn't leave like WTH?? Everyone's seconds is important to them and I sure would NOT have let the crap happen if that would have been me. I would have put my foot down and said something like "OH NO YOU DON'T, I'm NEXT and so is the other people behind us that have been waiting." I would have scanned at least one item myself just to make sure she couldn't have done that crap. It's just not fair. We all have shit to do. I would have told the cashier that"It's cutting and we have been waiting like 20 minutes here, have some sympathy and make her go into another shorter line." If I would have been the customer, I wouldn't have even *********FATHOMED************ the cashier checking out the item. I would have immediately went to a shorter line like 10 items or less or checked out in jewelry(usually has not many people or something like that). I wouldn't have even THOUGHT to do that and if the cashier would have suggested it, I would have turned her down, because it's CUTTING, because it TRULY IS HONESTLY CUTTING!
Another time, I had a situation where a man had a big box at Walmart in the garden center area in front of me and another man that was checking out in front of him, so I was third in line in other words. The man in front of me with the big box said to the cashier he'd be right back to get a shopping cart. He was gone for around a minute or so since he had to go all the WAYYYY to the other entrance to get a shopping cart since we were in the garden center. I moved up, because he left the line. He comes back eventually and says to me something like this "Ma'am I was there before you." I told him "You left the line, you leave a line you lose the spot you had." I couldn't believe that the jerk in front of me was on his side which by the time then was paying. I don't understand why they think BOXES that are the property of WALMART HOLD their spots?
If you think about it, on Black Friday for example, if "THINGS" held your spot, NO ONE WOULD GO THROUGH THE HUGE TROUBLE OF CAMPING OUT DAYS ON END FOR THE SALES. They'd just leave, for example, a back pack or suit case or even a shopping cart or what have you with their name on it and return the next morning instantly have the first spot in line. He'd come back that morning time the store opens(like if it's 4a.m., they'd come back at 3:55a.m. to reclaim their spot). But in real life as we ALL KNOW, real life DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!! I am right, they were wrong.
WHY do people think that it's "THEIR SPOT" when they aren't in line anymore? WHY are people like this?
I have had people leave to get bread or something that they forgot as if the groceries in their cart and cart are holding their spot. There's NO SUCH THING as this. YOU have to be PHYSICALLY THERE or SOMEONE has to be physically there to hold the spot you had. Notice I said HAD, so if there is someone there, then that's a person that is in the spot that is yours, but if no one is there, WHY do people think they can just jump back in line as if they never left the line? I have NEVER heard of this?
The man also probably wouldn't have said anything if another customer was there that wasn't, it was only because I was there he said something I would think. If he would have, if I would have came afterwards, I would say "No you weren't in line, the box that WALMART OWNS is there, that's it. I mean he had to go all the way out to the front of the store to get the cart and then go all the way back to the garden center, which is a GOOD minute to a minute and a half probably walk at least. I cannot imagine thinking I'd get the spot I had back. I wouldn't have DREAMED of telling the person something. I mean if I left the line, I would have NEVER thought I could magically get back in because I was too IRRESPONSIBLE to get a shopping cart *************BEFORE************ I decided to get in line. That's so IRRESPONSIBLE! If he needed a shopping cart, he should not have gotten in line to begin with. That box wasn't even his even and then acting so like he owned it. The cashier saw this all and didn't say a word. You know why? Because I am right. The cashier couldn't defend the man. I couldn't believe the guy in front of me as he was paying was AGREEING with this jerk. It's like SO WHAT if he was there, he left a LONG TIME that if it was during a busy time, 3-4 people could have been there in that amount of time. Seriously, this was ignorant of both the customers. The cashier didn't say anything, because I was next, because I truly was. That time, I actually did have time, because that was a time in 2012 that I had been laid off. The thing was, I wanted to have MORALS and DO THE "RIGHT THING", because the man will do this again since I go to this Walmart to me or another person again if I would ever see him and I don't want him to do this to others. He needs to have morals in his life. TRULY, if I would have been that man, I would NOT have even thought ONCE that I should have the spot reclaimed back to me. I would have left the line and he didn't ask me, he just left the box and told the cashier he was getting a shopping cart. As I said, this was WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY the hell back in the garden center, so it did take him a good minute or so to get back. When I saw he wasn't coming back after a few moments, I moved up. That's when he said something to me that he was there. The GALL of people to be that SELFISH that a BOX holds the spot you had*(PAST TENSE)*, the box you don't even own yet(not that it matters, but it makes it even more stupid to act like something you don't own holds a spot in line), then leaves a line for a good minute to a minute and a half as if no one else can come in the line during that time which is crazy, then only cares about his time as if he is the only person on this earth. I don't understand this selfish world we live in? WHY don't people have MORALS? I grew up with morals. As I said, if I were the man doing that same thing, I would have first off gotten my basket BEFORE I got in line instead of doing that crap, but if I would have not gotten the basket before I got in line, I would have not thought I could just reclaim the spot I had. NEVER in my WILDEST DREAMS would have I thought that, especially how LONG he left, that was even longer than the lady at Target. The thing is, leaving a line for ANY REASON is unacceptable except for something like if your child is walking away, I will accept something reasonable like that and you come back within 3 seconds and that is only because that's children, but even so, I still feel the parent should have their kid under control possibly in the basket with the seat strap or something. In my eyes, that's the only reason you should even think of leaving a line. If you forget bread or milk or want a coke from the aisle further away, if you have to leave the line to get it, then you shouldn't get the spot you had back since you decided to either not get what you needed before or not do what I do which is as I said check out what I do have and then go into another line to check out that one item. I NEVER alter someone else's time for my own time. I am not selfish like that. I am VERY CONSIDERATE and think of other people that think of MY FEELINGS and MY TIME by NOT doing these things. They are only caring about themselves, so why can't I do the same?
5 people in all the over 16 years I have been married have and gone to stores, have asked to cut. All 5 of them were turned down. Get this, one lady asked to cut to buy cigarettes when I have shit to do at home and she wants her cancer sticks. Seriously. If you are in a hurry go to a GAS STATION to get cigarettes not WALMART, because Walmart you WILL PAY WITH YOUR TIME ALWAYS! Getting the best deal will not get you the best time frame. Even at Walgreens will give you a better time frame than Walmart. This lady was mean because I turned her down. It's like if I could do this I would. Then, NO ONE would have to wait their turn in line. HOW is that morally right or fair? This lady was SOOOOO SELFISH, just like the other people I have mentioned.
WHY are people so SELFISH in this world? People are SOOOOO FREAKIN MEAN. They block you to get a parking space to you have to wait, they block you in traffic so you can't go, etc. People are SOOOO MEAN and HATEFUL in this world. They are FREAKIN SELFISH A$$HOLES!
As I said before, if these people were right, then WHY do people camp out on Black Friday rather than leaving a physical object to hold their spot, huh? Obviously, I am 100% correct on this and they aren't since that simply proves it.
So basically, what is the public's opinion and why do you people leave the line, then expect to get the spot back you *HAD*? I don't understand?
What would you think if you were in any of these situations? Like the situation with the cashier letting the lady cut, would you have been OK with that after waiting 15-20 minutes already? Would you like for someone to ask to cut and think you can't do it too, wouldn't it be nice? It would be nice if we could all be first, and never wait, wouldn't it? There have been times during the years where I VOLUNTARILY invited a person that had one item that they could get in front of me, but I don't do it anymore since now-a-days I see how people have been so SELFISH to me personally It's one thing when you invite the person, it's quite another when they are asking to cut. Those people had some nerve and gall as if they are ABOVE others in the universe as if their shit don't stink or something. I don't get it?
Why is the world so SELFISH and does ANYONE see my point of view as to that these things are SOOO IMMORAL of what these people have done to me? It's SOOO MEAN AND SELFISH, it's UNREAL! HOW more selfish can you get out of these people? Especially the 5 people that asked to cut it's like HUH? I don't get it? WE ALL HAVE SHIT TO DO! My time is important on this earth every second and yours is too, but if you decide to go to a busy store like Walmart, you will pay with your time. If you don't like waiting that much, don't go to these places. No one makes people go to these places. The cigarette lady was really ridiculous. I mean so cancer sticks are more important than my purchases? I have a life too and I was hungry to fix dinner, go shower, etc. for my work day the next day. Cigarettes aren't a necessity in life. If she would have been first, then it would have been fair for her to go first, but she wasn't, I made it to the line first. I just can't believe someone has the GALL to think their seconds of time are MORE IMPORTANT than OTHER PEOPLE'S IN THE WORLD to ask to cut. I don't ask to cut, NEVER, EVER*****************EVER****************** have done this. That's just RUDE, RUDE, RUDE as all hell. I can't imagine doing this to another human being, I really can't. I have things to do too. Even if I am not busy, if I invite the person that's one thing, but it's quite another if you ask me. If you ask, you are going to get denied. For all I know, your purchase had a pricing error or credit card issue or check issue or WIC issue, now I am standing for another 5-10 minutes waiting for a CSM to come to fix the issue or a person that writes a check or a person that waits to get every penny out of their purse for change. Even if it's a 40 second- a minute transaction, that was ********MY MINUTE OF MY LIFE and SHE ISN'T A QUEEN TO GET TO BYPASS THE LINE JUST AS I NEVER DO********. I don't bypass the line, I don't expect anyone else to be able to do so either. It's a 2-way street. I wait my turn as that's how morally it's supposed to go. The only time I haven't is back when I said I used to invite people in front of me and sometimes people would do the same for me if I had one item. Now I just simply decline the offer if people offer for me to get in front of them since I don't do that anymore. I just wait my turn. I am just so SICK of the SELFISH people of the world. WHY if you are people that do this crap, WHY do you do it? WHY do you think you are a queen or king above everyone else that you don't have to wait, but we do? Also, my first story, why would this lady think her 5 seconds that she wanted to save it SOOOOO MUCH to put something she didn't even have to do and not just do it after she finished? I don't quite understand that lady? I mean what was the big deal if she had waited until after she finished her return to put her recycling stuff in the bin? WOW HOW HORRIBLE she had to take 5 more seconds of her life so she wouldn't leave the line. Maybe, just maybe, she learned from it not to do that so she wouldn't have to get mad. I would do it again in a HEARTBEAT, because if I would have something to do like that I would have either done it before or after the line, NOT while in line leave the line. That just doesn't make ANY SENSE. I don't understand if people don't have time to do the recycling to take 5 extra seconds, WHY DO IT THEN? I mean I don't get it? WHY do people think they can get out of the line(as I said, that elastic line barrier is there for a REAL REASON) and then expect go come back in the same spot in line when they left. Of course after she did it the 2nd time, she of course reclaimed the spot by cutting(as I said she tried to cut once, but didn't succeed with me). She acted like I was cutting. She was cutting. She left the line. NO spot is there for that person once they leave the line and the cart is the cart of the store ownership. Even if let's say she would have been stupid to leave something she owned like her purse there, that still doesn't keep the spot for you, you have to be ********PHYSICALLY THERE OR SOMEONE HOLDS THE SPOT FOR YOU**********. I care about my time and I have shit to do too, so I was NOT going to wait longer if I didn't have to just as she wanted to save her precious 5 seconds, so did I. I have EVERY RIGHT to my extra seconds or minutes as she does. EVERYONE ARE ***EQUALS*** in this world when it comes to time.
WHY people are so mean and selfish in the world like this that they think we have to bow down to them when they leave the line or don't get there first? As if they are more important? NO, they aren't. Everyone has things to do and it's rude to ask to cut, it's rude to be the cashier that let a lady cut, it's rude to cut like the customer that came back over 20 minutes later to claim her item, it was rude to try to get back in line after leaving, especially over a minute worth or even when there is a elastic barrier showing you that the line is there and nowhere else. I really don't get her reaction at the end because we both got our turn at the same time with 2 different return's cashiers? I didn't call her anything, because I am not going to get thrown out for her temper tantrum. She was acting like a spoiled brat that didn't get her way. She shouldn't have told me one thing. She should have known that she left the line and deserved to now be in the back of me. That's how it's supposed to work. I never tried to save my 5 seconds as I said to do ANYTHING. When I have, I don't expect the spot I had back and NEVER WOULD FATHOM such a ********RIDICULOUS********* thing.
So public, what is your opinion? WHY would you disagree with me when they are the ones being selfish? Also, is this YOU?? Do you expect the world to wait for you?
I edited my age and how long I was married since this post.
One day I was in line at a store(Target) to return something with my basket of a few items. A lady was in front of me. They had this elastic band to show where the line was so you would have to literally go underneath it to get out the line. They had outside the line further away towards the window and door area some recycle bins. The lady that was in front of me had other people that were being checked out at the returns area ahead of her. This lady was SOOOOO VERY IMPATIENT she decided to actually get out the line to put something in the recycle bin. So what I did since she actually DID TRULY get out the line, I went in front of my basket and WOW she THREW A HISSY FIT literally trying to get in front of me as if she just didn't get out the line. She was "I was only gone for a few seconds." I told her "You could easily wait to do this AFTER or have done it BEFORE you got in line." "You leave a line, you lose your spot." I also told her" I **********NEVER*********************** leave lines and expect to *******************EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER*********** get the spot I ****HAD***(PAST TENSE) back. When I have forgotten something either I check out what I do have and go back to get what I forgot, then go in to like the 10 items or less line or self-check out OR I decide to next time get it. I don't act like I am supposed to get back in the spot for ANY REASON. I don't care WHAT reason she had. There were times I saw like a dime on the ground and decided not to leave the line because I knew if I left the line, I would lose my spot and it wasn't worth 10 cents to leave the line for. I even made an example to her that if I forgot my money in car at Burger King, would I just be able to come back as if I never left and especially if someone else that wasn't in line made it before she came back that's another thing. She went ballistic crazy acting as if I did something horrible when she is the person that decided to be TOO IMPATIENT to WAIT until AFTER she was done with her return. So she would have had to take 5 seconds or so after she returned her items to put the items in the recycle bin, WOW, I don't get WHY her time was MORE PRECIOUS than ANYONE ELSE'S IN THIS UNIVERSE that she thought she could just magically come back without even ASKING if it was OK with me? I do mind since my time is important to me just as hers is. I don't ***EVER*** do this to another person in the world and that's why I feel so strongly as to why I did it. My time is important too and I would have loved to save seconds doing something else like reading a magazine for a few minutes instead of staring into space or something until the next person in line. I don't do that though. I don't care if it's 5 seconds you are gone, you left the line so you lose the spot you had. That's how lines work.
If you think about when they have black friday how people are with lines. You don't leave and expect to get back in unless you have someone you are with holding the spot for you.
This lady was so loud I was afraid she was going to get us both banned, so I just told the lady to be quite about it and "stop this." Then, get this, she again this time asking the cashiers since there were people behind her now, "Can I go put these other bags I have in the recycle bin and be able to come back in line?" I couldn't believe this lady? She was bitching and complaining the entire time. I would do this again in a heartbeat, because I don't go outside the line once or twice and expect to just come back in line as if I NEVER LEFT. That has NEVER been how lines work. You don't leave. The store's shopping cart doesn't hold the spot you had if you had a shopping cart(she did). On black friday, I don't see people leaving shopping carts the night before and just coming back to reclaim the spot, I see them camping out to make sure they have their spot. So if I was in the wrong, NO ONE would camp outside in the cold if that was the case. Also, the cashiers of the return's line would have corrected me and they didn't say a word, because this lady was making a SCENE in the store LOUD like a LUNATIC as if someone just stole something from her or hurt her physically when NONE of that occurred.
WHY do you think they have the elastic line barriers? To show "THIS IS THE LINE and OUTSIDE OF THIS IS NOT THE LINE." That's why they have it.
I just cannot believe how IMPATIENT this lady was?? Why was it such a big deal to save 5 seconds(maybe 7 seconds if you count her 2nd trip out the line later on) that she could have just done that AFTER she finished her return? I don't quite get why should the person behind her has to give a care about her time when she sure didn't care about my time or the people that ended up being behind her? She was so SELFISH herself. We ended up having the 2 cashiers free at the same time so we got our turns at the same time anyway so then when I was in line still since my situation I got a manager involved for my price matches, she called me a "bitch" as she left. That was sooooo IMMATURE of her and IDIOTIC. Especially when our turns ended up being at the same time since both cashiers finished at the same time so we both got to go up at the same time.
I don't quite get why she was so mad about it and why her precious 5 seconds savings had to be done while she was in line only to get out the line to do that and why she didn't just do it BEFORE she got in line or AFTER? I don't quite get this? It's like WOW lady, you are that impatient I thought to myself? I don't get out of lines no matter what as I said before, I just don't. I don't expect the shopping cart or even my jacket to hold the spot that I was in to get something. I have NEVER ONCE done this and I am 39yrs old. I have been around LOTS of lines and NEVER ONCE left a line and expected the spot I ************************HAD******************************************** back as if I never left. I NEVER have done this before. I always if I had to leave the line, either go back in the same line back of the line or go to another line. I don't do this kind of a thing. I also don't get the RUSHINESS of this lady? If she didn't have time, she should not have recycled first of all since by law you don't have to do this, secondly, if you don't have time to return something, go next time you go to the store, thirdly, as I said why not do it after you get out the line or before you get in line? WHY leave a line and then expect to get back in just because the basket that is OWNED BY THE STORE is going to hold the spot you had and WHY they have the elastic band to show where the line is if you can truly leave the line?
This was the most ridiculous thing and she acted like I was wrong. I wasn't wrong. As I said before, if I was wrong then EVERYONE could do this and leave the basket they have the items in they want and not be there in line. I don't care if it was a few seconds. I don't do it, I expect others to do the same to respect my time that I take time away from my life to do things afterwards or before I get in line, she should too.
Also, my time is VERY IMPORTANT to me JUST AS HERS IS and if I can get a spot in line faster, WHY NOT? She didn't care about my time or the other people that came after her either. If she did, she would have either waited until she finished her return or done it beforehand or if she wanted to do it then, she should have gotten out the line with the cart and went into the back of the line. That's how MORALLY it SHOULD HAVE BEEN and she didn't do that.
Another story was at Walmart. I was waiting in a VERY LONG line like probably 15-20 minutes. As I was paying with my credit card so the machine had to do it's thing so it took some moments to process, this lady came up to get an item that apparently she had forgotten. I couldn't believe my eyes. The cashier actually was ended up ringing her up and the customer didn't even say anything. If that would have been me next, I sure the HELL WOULD have said "That's cutting, she needs to go to another checkout line, we have been waiting for like 20 minutes and all the people behind us." I don't understand why the cashier did that? If I were the cashier, I would have told the lady she needed to either get in the back of the line or go into another line(perhaps either self checkout or 10 items or less line). It's the principle of it. It's sure not fair and this lady was NOT in line when I nor the person behind me was in line. It's like this lady was gone for probably 25 minutes or so and just appeared. I have ALWAYS lived on MORALS AND PRINCIPLES to do the MORALLY RIGHT THING. I didn't get involved since it wasn't my turn that was altered since I had to get home myself, but would have been furious and if the cashier would have done this, I would have made a complaint to a manager about it for sure. I am not sure if they would have cared, but it IS TRULY the wrong moral thing to do. Cutting is cutting and you can't just leave, then get back in line. I don't care if it's one item, that's time taking away from someone else's life. We all have things to do. Our time is precious, especially if you are at Walmart you wait your life away in line at Walmart when you go at busy times like after work at night time like it was probably 6p.m. or later. It was VERY BUSY as I said how long we were waiting in line. I felt bad for this guy. I almost was going to invite him in front of me since he had less but I had a lot of things to do at home and it was late as it was, plus I had been waiting in line a long time already. I am sure glad I didn't though, because then that would have maybe happened to me if I would have done that. I felt bad for the guy, because we had waited a VERY LONG TIME and then finally when he was going to get his turn, the cashier decides to let this lady cut. I don't understand the mean world? WHY would a cashier do this? The cashier should have told the lady that she had to go into another line or get behind the line as I said. I know that's what I would have done for SURE without ANY DOUBTS in my mind what-so-ever. That's just the right thing to do. I don't care if she was in line before, she wasn't anymore and that was the entire point. This was even worse in a way than the other situation, because this lady was gone for maybe a half an hour who knows and then pops back in as if she didn't leave like WTH?? Everyone's seconds is important to them and I sure would NOT have let the crap happen if that would have been me. I would have put my foot down and said something like "OH NO YOU DON'T, I'm NEXT and so is the other people behind us that have been waiting." I would have scanned at least one item myself just to make sure she couldn't have done that crap. It's just not fair. We all have shit to do. I would have told the cashier that"It's cutting and we have been waiting like 20 minutes here, have some sympathy and make her go into another shorter line." If I would have been the customer, I wouldn't have even *********FATHOMED************ the cashier checking out the item. I would have immediately went to a shorter line like 10 items or less or checked out in jewelry(usually has not many people or something like that). I wouldn't have even THOUGHT to do that and if the cashier would have suggested it, I would have turned her down, because it's CUTTING, because it TRULY IS HONESTLY CUTTING!
Another time, I had a situation where a man had a big box at Walmart in the garden center area in front of me and another man that was checking out in front of him, so I was third in line in other words. The man in front of me with the big box said to the cashier he'd be right back to get a shopping cart. He was gone for around a minute or so since he had to go all the WAYYYY to the other entrance to get a shopping cart since we were in the garden center. I moved up, because he left the line. He comes back eventually and says to me something like this "Ma'am I was there before you." I told him "You left the line, you leave a line you lose the spot you had." I couldn't believe that the jerk in front of me was on his side which by the time then was paying. I don't understand why they think BOXES that are the property of WALMART HOLD their spots?
If you think about it, on Black Friday for example, if "THINGS" held your spot, NO ONE WOULD GO THROUGH THE HUGE TROUBLE OF CAMPING OUT DAYS ON END FOR THE SALES. They'd just leave, for example, a back pack or suit case or even a shopping cart or what have you with their name on it and return the next morning instantly have the first spot in line. He'd come back that morning time the store opens(like if it's 4a.m., they'd come back at 3:55a.m. to reclaim their spot). But in real life as we ALL KNOW, real life DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!! I am right, they were wrong.
WHY do people think that it's "THEIR SPOT" when they aren't in line anymore? WHY are people like this?
I have had people leave to get bread or something that they forgot as if the groceries in their cart and cart are holding their spot. There's NO SUCH THING as this. YOU have to be PHYSICALLY THERE or SOMEONE has to be physically there to hold the spot you had. Notice I said HAD, so if there is someone there, then that's a person that is in the spot that is yours, but if no one is there, WHY do people think they can just jump back in line as if they never left the line? I have NEVER heard of this?
The man also probably wouldn't have said anything if another customer was there that wasn't, it was only because I was there he said something I would think. If he would have, if I would have came afterwards, I would say "No you weren't in line, the box that WALMART OWNS is there, that's it. I mean he had to go all the way out to the front of the store to get the cart and then go all the way back to the garden center, which is a GOOD minute to a minute and a half probably walk at least. I cannot imagine thinking I'd get the spot I had back. I wouldn't have DREAMED of telling the person something. I mean if I left the line, I would have NEVER thought I could magically get back in because I was too IRRESPONSIBLE to get a shopping cart *************BEFORE************ I decided to get in line. That's so IRRESPONSIBLE! If he needed a shopping cart, he should not have gotten in line to begin with. That box wasn't even his even and then acting so like he owned it. The cashier saw this all and didn't say a word. You know why? Because I am right. The cashier couldn't defend the man. I couldn't believe the guy in front of me as he was paying was AGREEING with this jerk. It's like SO WHAT if he was there, he left a LONG TIME that if it was during a busy time, 3-4 people could have been there in that amount of time. Seriously, this was ignorant of both the customers. The cashier didn't say anything, because I was next, because I truly was. That time, I actually did have time, because that was a time in 2012 that I had been laid off. The thing was, I wanted to have MORALS and DO THE "RIGHT THING", because the man will do this again since I go to this Walmart to me or another person again if I would ever see him and I don't want him to do this to others. He needs to have morals in his life. TRULY, if I would have been that man, I would NOT have even thought ONCE that I should have the spot reclaimed back to me. I would have left the line and he didn't ask me, he just left the box and told the cashier he was getting a shopping cart. As I said, this was WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY the hell back in the garden center, so it did take him a good minute or so to get back. When I saw he wasn't coming back after a few moments, I moved up. That's when he said something to me that he was there. The GALL of people to be that SELFISH that a BOX holds the spot you had*(PAST TENSE)*, the box you don't even own yet(not that it matters, but it makes it even more stupid to act like something you don't own holds a spot in line), then leaves a line for a good minute to a minute and a half as if no one else can come in the line during that time which is crazy, then only cares about his time as if he is the only person on this earth. I don't understand this selfish world we live in? WHY don't people have MORALS? I grew up with morals. As I said, if I were the man doing that same thing, I would have first off gotten my basket BEFORE I got in line instead of doing that crap, but if I would have not gotten the basket before I got in line, I would have not thought I could just reclaim the spot I had. NEVER in my WILDEST DREAMS would have I thought that, especially how LONG he left, that was even longer than the lady at Target. The thing is, leaving a line for ANY REASON is unacceptable except for something like if your child is walking away, I will accept something reasonable like that and you come back within 3 seconds and that is only because that's children, but even so, I still feel the parent should have their kid under control possibly in the basket with the seat strap or something. In my eyes, that's the only reason you should even think of leaving a line. If you forget bread or milk or want a coke from the aisle further away, if you have to leave the line to get it, then you shouldn't get the spot you had back since you decided to either not get what you needed before or not do what I do which is as I said check out what I do have and then go into another line to check out that one item. I NEVER alter someone else's time for my own time. I am not selfish like that. I am VERY CONSIDERATE and think of other people that think of MY FEELINGS and MY TIME by NOT doing these things. They are only caring about themselves, so why can't I do the same?
5 people in all the over 16 years I have been married have and gone to stores, have asked to cut. All 5 of them were turned down. Get this, one lady asked to cut to buy cigarettes when I have shit to do at home and she wants her cancer sticks. Seriously. If you are in a hurry go to a GAS STATION to get cigarettes not WALMART, because Walmart you WILL PAY WITH YOUR TIME ALWAYS! Getting the best deal will not get you the best time frame. Even at Walgreens will give you a better time frame than Walmart. This lady was mean because I turned her down. It's like if I could do this I would. Then, NO ONE would have to wait their turn in line. HOW is that morally right or fair? This lady was SOOOOO SELFISH, just like the other people I have mentioned.
WHY are people so SELFISH in this world? People are SOOOOO FREAKIN MEAN. They block you to get a parking space to you have to wait, they block you in traffic so you can't go, etc. People are SOOOO MEAN and HATEFUL in this world. They are FREAKIN SELFISH A$$HOLES!
As I said before, if these people were right, then WHY do people camp out on Black Friday rather than leaving a physical object to hold their spot, huh? Obviously, I am 100% correct on this and they aren't since that simply proves it.
So basically, what is the public's opinion and why do you people leave the line, then expect to get the spot back you *HAD*? I don't understand?
What would you think if you were in any of these situations? Like the situation with the cashier letting the lady cut, would you have been OK with that after waiting 15-20 minutes already? Would you like for someone to ask to cut and think you can't do it too, wouldn't it be nice? It would be nice if we could all be first, and never wait, wouldn't it? There have been times during the years where I VOLUNTARILY invited he person that had one item that they could get in front of me, but I don't do it anymore since now-a-days I see how people have been so SELFISH to me personally It's one thing when you invite the person, it's quite another when they are asking to cut. Those people had some nerve and gall as if they are ABOVE others in the universe as if their shit don't stink or something. I don't get it?
Why is the world so SELFISH and does ANYONE see my point of view as to that these things are SOOO IMMORAL of what these people have done to me? It's SOOO MEAN AND SELFISH, it's UNREAL! HOW more selfish can you get out of these people? Especially the 5 people that asked to cut it's like HUH? I don't get it? WE ALL HAVE SHIT TO DO! My time is important on this earth every second and yours is too, but if you decide to go to a busy store like Walmart, you will pay with your time. If you don't like waiting that much, don't go to these places. No one makes people go to these places. The cigarette lady was really ridiculous. I mean so cancer sticks are more important than my purchases? I have a life too and I was hungry to fix dinner, go shower, etc. for my work day the next day. Cigarettes aren't a necessity in life. If she would have been first, then it would have been fair for her to go first, but she wasn't, I made it to the line first. I just can't believe someone has the GALL to think their seconds of time are MORE IMPORTANT than OTHER PEOPLE'S IN THE WORLD to ask to cut. I don't ask to cut, NEVER, EVER*****************EVER****************** have done this. That's just RUDE, RUDE, RUDE as all hell. I can't imagine doing this to another human being, I really can't. I have things to do too. Even if I am not busy, if I invite the person that's one thing, but it's quite another if you ask me. If you ask, you are going to get denied. For all I know, your purchase had a pricing error or credit card issue or check issue or WIC issue, now I am standing for another 5-10 minutes waiting for a CSM to come to fix the issue or a person that writes a check or a person that waits to get every penny out of their purse for change. Even if it's a 40 second- a minute transaction, that was ********MY MINUTE OF MY LIFE and SHE ISN'T A QUEEN TO GET TO BYPASS THE LINE JUST AS I NEVER DO********. I don't bypass the line, I don't expect anyone else to be able to do so either. It's a 2-way street. I wait my turn as that's how morally it's supposed to go. The only time I haven't is back when I said I used to invite people in front of me and sometimes people would do the same for me if I had one item. Now I just simply decline the offer if people offer for me to get in front of them since I don't do that anymore. I just wait my turn. I am just so SICK of the SELFISH people of the world. WHY if you are people that do this crap, WHY do you do it? WHY do you think you are a queen or king above everyone else that you don't have to wait, but we do? Also, my first story, why would this lady think her 5 seconds that she wanted to save it SOOOOO MUCH to put something she didn't even have to do and not just do it after she finished? I don't quite understand that lady? I mean what was the big deal if she had waited until after she finished her return to put her recycling stuff in the bin? WOW HOW HORRIBLE she had to take 5 more seconds of her life so she wouldn't leave the line. Maybe, just maybe, she learned from it not to do that so she wouldn't have to get mad. I would do it again in a HEARTBEAT, because if I would have something to do like that I would have either done it before or after the line, NOT while in line leave the line. That just doesn't make ANY SENSE. I don't understand if people don't have time to do the recycling to take 5 extra seconds, WHY DO IT THEN? I mean I don't get it? WHY do people think they can get out of the line(as I said, that elastic line barrier is there for a REAL REASON) and then expect go come back in the same spot in line when they left. Of course after she did it the 2nd time, she of course reclaimed the spot by cutting(as I said she tried to cut once, but didn't succeed with me). She acted like I was cutting. She was cutting. She left the line. NO spot is there for that person once they leave the line and the cart is the cart of the store ownership. Even if let's say she would have been stupid to leave something she owned like her purse there, that still doesn't keep the spot for you, you have to be ********PHYSICALLY THERE OR SOMEONE HOLDS THE SPOT FOR YOU**********. I care about my time and I have shit to do too, so I was NOT going to wait longer if I didn't have to just as she wanted to save her precious 5 seconds, so did I. I have EVERY RIGHT to my extra seconds or minutes as she does. EVERYONE ARE ***EQUALS*** in this world when it comes to time.
WHY people are so mean and selfish in the world like this that they think we have to bow down to them when they leave the line or don't get there first? As if they are more important? NO, they aren't. Everyone has things to do and it's rude to ask to cut, it's rude to be the cashier that let a lady cut, it's rude to cut like the customer that came back over 20 minutes later to claim her item, it was rude to try to get back in line after leaving, especially over a minute worth or even when there is a elastic barrier showing you that the line is there and nowhere else. I really don't get her reaction at the end because we both got our turn at the same time with 2 different return's cashiers? I didn't call her anything, because I am not going to get thrown out for her temper tantrum. She was acting like a spoiled brat that didn't get her way. She shouldn't have told me one thing. She should have known that she left the line and deserved to now be in the back of me. That's how it's supposed to work. I never tried to save my 5 seconds as I said to do ANYTHING. When I have, I don't expect the spot I had back and NEVER WOULD FATHOM such a ********RIDICULOUS********* thing.
So public, what is your opinion? WHY would you disagree with me when they are the ones being selfish? Also, is this YOU?? Do you expect the world to wait for you?
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One day I was in line at a store(Target) to return something with my basket of a few items. A lady was in front of me. They had this elastic band to show where the line was so you would have to literally go underneath it to get out the line. They had outside the line further away towards the window and door area some recycle bins. The lady that was in front of me had other people that were being checked out at the returns area ahead of her. This lady was SOOOOO VERY IMPATIENT she decided to actually get out the line to put something in the recycle bin. So what I did since she actually DID TRULY get out the line, I moved the basket she had and moved the one I was using in front of hers then I went in front of my basket and WOW she THREW A HISSY FIT literally trying to get in front of me as if she just didn't get out the line. She was "I was only gone for a few seconds." I told her "You could easily wait to do this AFTER or have done it BEFORE you got in line." "You leave a line, you lose your spot." I also told her" I **********NEVER*********************** leave lines and expect to *******************EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER*********** get the spot I ****HAD***(PAST TENSE) back. When I have forgotten something either I check out what I do have and go back to get what I forgot, then go in to like the 10 items or less line or self-check out OR I decide to next time get it. I don't act like I am supposed to get back in the spot for ANY REASON. I don't care WHAT reason she had. There were times I saw like a dime on the ground and decided not to leave the line because I knew if I left the line, I would lose my spot and it wasn't worth 10 cents to leave the line for. I even made an example to her that if I forgot my money in car at Burger King, would I just be able to come back as if I never left and especially if someone else that wasn't in line made it before she came back that's another thing. She went ballistic crazy acting as if I did something horrible when she is the person that decided to be TOO IMPATIENT to WAIT until AFTER she was done with her return. So she would have had to take 5 seconds or so after she returned her items to put the items in the recycle bin, WOW, I don't get WHY her time was MORE PRECIOUS than ANYONE ELSE'S IN THIS UNIVERSE that she thought she could just magically come back without even ASKING if it was OK with me? I do mind since my time is important to me just as hers is. I don't ***EVER*** do this to another person in the world and that's why I feel so strongly as to why I did it. My time is important too and I would have loved to save seconds doing something else like reading a magazine for a few minutes instead of staring into space or something until the next person in line. I don't do that though. I don't care if it's 5 seconds you are gone, you left the line so you lose the spot you had. That's how lines work.
If you think about when they have black friday how people are with lines. You don't leave and expect to get back in unless you have someone you are with holding the spot for you.
This lady was so loud I was afraid she was going to get us both banned, so I just told the lady to be quite about it and "stop this." Then, get this, she again this time asking the cashiers since there were people behind her now, "Can I go put these other bags I have in the recycle bin and be able to come back in line?" I couldn't believe this lady? She was bitching and complaining the entire time. I would do this again in a heartbeat, because I don't go outside the line once or twice and expect to just come back in line as if I NEVER LEFT. That has NEVER been how lines work. You don't leave. The store's shopping cart doesn't hold the spot you had if you had a shopping cart(she did). On black friday, I don't see people leaving shopping carts the night before and just coming back to reclaim the spot, I see them camping out to make sure they have their spot. So if I was in the wrong, NO ONE would camp outside in the cold if that was the case. Also, the cashiers of the return's line would have corrected me and they didn't say a word, because this lady was making a SCENE in the store LOUD like a LUNATIC as if someone just stole something from her or hurt her physically when NONE of that occurred.
WHY do you think they have the elastic line barriers? To show "THIS IS THE LINE and OUTSIDE OF THIS IS NOT THE LINE." That's why they have it.
I just cannot believe how IMPATIENT this lady was?? Why was it such a big deal to save 5 seconds(maybe 7 seconds if you count her 2nd trip out the line later on) that she could have just done that AFTER she finished her return? I don't quite get why should the person behind her has to give a care about her time when she sure didn't care about my time or the people that ended up being behind her? She was so SELFISH herself. We ended up having the 2 cashiers free at the same time so we got our turns at the same time anyway so then when I was in line still since my situation I got a manager involved for my price matches, she called me a "bitch" as she left. That was sooooo IMMATURE of her and IDIOTIC. Especially when our turns ended up being at the same time since both cashiers finished at the same time so we both got to go up at the same time.
I don't quite get why she was so mad about it and why her precious 5 seconds savings had to be done while she was in line only to get out the line to do that and why she didn't just do it BEFORE she got in line or AFTER? I don't quite get this? It's like WOW lady, you are that impatient I thought to myself? I don't get out of lines no matter what as I said before, I just don't. I don't expect the shopping cart or even my jacket to hold the spot that I was in to get something. I have NEVER ONCE done this and I am 41yrs old. I have been around LOTS of lines and NEVER ONCE left a line and expected the spot I ************************HAD******************************************** back as if I never left. I NEVER have done this before. I always if I had to leave the line, either go back in the same line back of the line or go to another line. I don't do this kind of a thing. I also don't get the RUSHINESS of this lady? If she didn't have time, she should not have recycled first of all since by law you don't have to do this, secondly, if you don't have time to return something, go next time you go to the store, thirdly, as I said why not do it after you get out the line or before you get in line? WHY leave a line and then expect to get back in just because the basket that is OWNED BY THE STORE is going to hold the spot you had and WHY they have the elastic band to show where the line is if you can truly leave the line?
This was the most ridiculous thing and she acted like I was wrong. I wasn't wrong. As I said before, if I was wrong then EVERYONE could do this and leave the basket they have the items in they want and not be there in line. I don't care if it was a few seconds. I don't do it, I expect others to do the same to respect my time that I take time away from my life to do things afterwards or before I get in line, she should too.
Also, my time is VERY IMPORTANT to me JUST AS HERS IS and if I can get a spot in line faster, WHY NOT? She didn't care about my time or the other people that came after her either. If she did, she would have either waited until she finished her return or done it beforehand or if she wanted to do it then, she should have gotten out the line with the cart and went into the back of the line. That's how MORALLY it SHOULD HAVE BEEN and she didn't do that.
Another story was at Walmart. I was waiting in a VERY LONG line like probably 15-20 minutes. As I was paying with my credit card so the machine had to do it's thing so it took some moments to process, this lady came up to get an item that apparently she had forgotten. I couldn't believe my eyes. The cashier actually ended up ringing her up and the customer didn't even say anything. If that would have been me next, I sure the HELL WOULD have said "That's cutting, she needs to go to another checkout line, we have been waiting for like 20 minutes and all the people behind us." I don't understand why the cashier did that? If I were the cashier, I would have told the lady she needed to either get in the back of the line or go into another line(perhaps either self checkout or 10 items or less line). It's the principle of it. It's sure not fair and this lady was NOT in line when I nor the person behind me was in line. It's like this lady was gone for probably 25 minutes or so and just appeared. I have ALWAYS lived on MORALS AND PRINCIPLES to do the MORALLY RIGHT THING. I didn't get involved since it wasn't my turn that was altered since I had to get home myself, but would have been furious and if the cashier would have done this, I would have made a complaint to a manager about it for sure. I am not sure if they would have cared, but it IS TRULY the wrong moral thing to do. Cutting is cutting and you can't just leave, then get back in line. I don't care if it's one item, that's time taking away from someone else's life. We all have things to do. Our time is precious, especially if you are at Walmart you wait your life away in line at Walmart when you go at busy times like after work at night time like it was probably 6p.m. or later. It was VERY BUSY as I said how long we were waiting in line. I felt bad for this guy. I almost was going to invite him in front of me since he had less but I had a lot of things to do at home and it was late as it was, plus I had been waiting in line a long time already. I am sure glad I didn't though, because then that would have maybe happened to me if I would have done that. I felt bad for the guy, because we had waited a VERY LONG TIME and then finally when he was going to get his turn, the cashier decides to let this lady cut. I don't understand the mean world? WHY would a cashier do this? The cashier should have told the lady that she had to go into another line or get behind the line as I said. I know that's what I would have done for SURE without ANY DOUBTS in my mind what-so-ever. That's just the right thing to do. I don't care if she was in line before, she wasn't anymore and that was the entire point. This was even worse in a way than the other situation, because this lady was gone for maybe a half an hour who knows and then pops back in as if she didn't leave like WTH?? Everyone's seconds is important to them and I sure would NOT have let the crap happen if that would have been me. I would have put my foot down and said something like "OH NO YOU DON'T, I'm NEXT and so is the other people behind us that have been waiting." I would have scanned at least one item myself just to make sure she couldn't have done that crap. It's just not fair. We all have shit to do. I would have told the cashier that"It's cutting and we have been waiting like 20 minutes here, have some sympathy and make her go into another shorter line." If I would have been the customer, I wouldn't have even *********FATHOMED************ the cashier checking out the item. I would have immediately went to a shorter line like 10 items or less or checked out in jewelry(usually has not many people or something like that). I wouldn't have even THOUGHT to do that and if the cashier would have suggested it, I would have turned her down, because it's CUTTING, because it TRULY IS HONESTLY CUTTING!
Another time, I had a situation where a man had a big box at Walmart in the garden center area in front of me and another man that was checking out in front of him, so I was third in line in other words. The man in front of me with the big box said to the cashier he'd be right back to get a shopping cart. He was gone for around a minute or so since he had to go all the WAYYYY to the other entrance to get a shopping cart since we were in the garden center. I moved up, because he left the line. He comes back eventually and says to me something like this "Ma'am I was there before you." I told him "You left the line, you leave a line you lose the spot you had." I couldn't believe that the jerk in front of me was on his side which by the time then was paying. I don't understand why they think BOXES that are the property of WALMART HOLD their spots?
If you think about it, on Black Friday for example, if "THINGS" held your spot, NO ONE WOULD GO THROUGH THE HUGE TROUBLE OF CAMPING OUT DAYS ON END FOR THE SALES. They'd just leave, for example, a back pack or suit case or even a shopping cart or what have you with their name on it and return the next morning instantly have the first spot in line. He'd come back that morning time the store opens(like if it's 4a.m., they'd come back at 3:55a.m. to reclaim their spot). But in real life as we ALL KNOW, real life DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!! I am right, they were wrong.
WHY do people think that it's "THEIR SPOT" when they aren't in line anymore? WHY are people like this?
I have had people leave to get bread or something that they forgot as if the groceries in their cart and cart are holding their spot. There's NO SUCH THING as this. YOU have to be PHYSICALLY THERE or SOMEONE has to be physically there to hold the spot you had. Notice I said HAD, so if there is someone there, then that's a person that is in the spot that is yours, but if no one is there, WHY do people think they can just jump back in line as if they never left the line? I have NEVER heard of this?
The man also probably wouldn't have said anything if another customer was there that wasn't, it was only because I was there he said something I would think. If he would have, if I would have came afterwards, I would say "No you weren't in line, the box that WALMART OWNS is there, that's it. I mean he had to go all the way out to the front of the store to get the cart and then go all the way back to the garden center, which is a GOOD minute to a minute and a half probably walk at least. I cannot imagine thinking I'd get the spot I had back. I wouldn't have DREAMED of telling the person something. I mean if I left the line, I would have NEVER thought I could magically get back in because I was too IRRESPONSIBLE to get a shopping cart *************BEFORE************ I decided to get in line. That's so IRRESPONSIBLE! If he needed a shopping cart, he should not have gotten in line to begin with. That box wasn't even his even and then acting so like he owned it. The cashier saw this all and didn't say a word. You know why? Because I am right. The cashier couldn't defend the man. I couldn't believe the guy in front of me as he was paying was AGREEING with this jerk. It's like SO WHAT if he was there, he left a LONG TIME that if it was during a busy time, 3-4 people could have been there in that amount of time. Seriously, this was ignorant of both the customers. The cashier didn't say anything, because I was next, because I truly was. That time, I actually did have time, because that was a time in 2012 that I had been laid off. The thing was, I wanted to have MORALS and DO THE "RIGHT THING", because the man will do this again since I go to this Walmart to me or another person again if I would ever see him and I don't want him to do this to others. He needs to have morals in his life. TRULY, if I would have been that man, I would NOT have even thought ONCE that I should have the spot reclaimed back to me. I would have left the line and he didn't ask me, he just left the box and told the cashier he was getting a shopping cart. As I said, this was WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY the hell back in the garden center, so it did take him a good minute or so to get back. When I saw he wasn't coming back after a few moments, I moved up. That's when he said something to me that he was there. The GALL of people to be that SELFISH that a BOX holds the spot you had*(PAST TENSE)*, the box you don't even own yet(not that it matters, but it makes it even more stupid to act like something you don't own holds a spot in line), then leaves a line for a good minute to a minute and a half as if no one else can come in the line during that time which is crazy, then only cares about his time as if he is the only person on this earth. I don't understand this selfish world we live in? WHY don't people have MORALS? I grew up with morals. As I said, if I were the man doing that same thing, I would have first off gotten my basket BEFORE I got in line instead of doing that crap, but if I would have not gotten the basket before I got in line, I would have not thought I could just reclaim the spot I had. NEVER in my WILDEST DREAMS would have I thought that, especially how LONG he left, that was even longer than the lady at Target. The thing is, leaving a line for ANY REASON is unacceptable except for something like if your child is walking away, I will accept something reasonable like that and you come back within 3 seconds and that is only because that's children, but even so, I still feel the parent should have their kid under control possibly in the basket with the seat strap or something. In my eyes, that's the only reason you should even think of leaving a line. If you forget bread or milk or want a coke from the aisle further away, if you have to leave the line to get it, then you shouldn't get the spot you had back since you decided to either not get what you needed before or not do what I do which is as I said check out what I do have and then go into another line to check out that one item. I NEVER alter someone else's time for my own time. I am not selfish like that. I am VERY CONSIDERATE and think of other people that think of MY FEELINGS and MY TIME by NOT doing these things. They are only caring about themselves, so why can't I do the same?
5 people in all the over 16 years I have been married have and gone to stores, have asked to cut. All 5 of them were turned down. Get this, one lady asked to cut to buy cigarettes when I have shit to do at home and she wants her cancer sticks. Seriously. If you are in a hurry go to a GAS STATION to get cigarettes not WALMART, because Walmart you WILL PAY WITH YOUR TIME ALWAYS! Getting the best deal will not get you the best time frame. Even at Walgreens will give you a better time frame than Walmart. This lady was mean because I turned her down. It's like if I could do this I would. Then, NO ONE would have to wait their turn in line. HOW is that morally right or fair? This lady was SOOOOO SELFISH, just like the other people I have mentioned.
WHY are people so SELFISH in this world? People are SOOOOO FREAKIN MEAN. They block you to get a parking space to you have to wait, they block you in traffic so you can't go, etc. People are SOOOO MEAN and HATEFUL in this world. They are FREAKIN SELFISH A$$HOLES!
As I said before, if these people were right, then WHY do people camp out on Black Friday rather than leaving a physical object to hold their spot, huh? Obviously, I am 100% correct on this and they aren't since that simply proves it.
So basically, what is the public's opinion and why do you people leave the line, then expect to get the spot back you *HAD*? I don't understand?
What would you think if you were in any of these situations? Like the situation with the cashier letting the lady cut, would you have been OK with that after waiting 15-20 minutes already? Would you like for someone to ask to cut and think you can't do it too, wouldn't it be nice? It would be nice if we could all be first, and never wait, wouldn't it? There have been times during the years where I VOLUNTARILY invited a person that had one item that they could get in front of me, but I don't do it anymore since now-a-days I see how people have been so SELFISH to me personally It's one thing when you invite the person, it's quite another when they are asking to cut. Those people had some nerve and gall as if they are ABOVE others in the universe as if their shit don't stink or something. I don't get it?
Why is the world so SELFISH and does ANYONE see my point of view as to that these things are SOOO IMMORAL of what these people have done to me? It's SOOO MEAN AND SELFISH, it's UNREAL! HOW more selfish can you get out of these people? Especially the 5 people that asked to cut it's like HUH? I don't get it? WE ALL HAVE SHIT TO DO! My time is important on this earth every second and yours is too, but if you decide to go to a busy store like Walmart, you will pay with your time. If you don't like waiting that much, don't go to these places. No one makes people go to these places. The cigarette lady was really ridiculous. I mean so cancer sticks are more important than my purchases? I have a life too and I was hungry to fix dinner, go shower, etc. for my work day the next day. Cigarettes aren't a necessity in life. If she would have been first, then it would have been fair for her to go first, but she wasn't, I made it to the line first. I just can't believe someone has the GALL to think their seconds of time are MORE IMPORTANT than OTHER PEOPLE'S IN THE WORLD to ask to cut. I don't ask to cut, NEVER, EVER*****************EVER****************** have done this. That's just RUDE, RUDE, RUDE as all hell. I can't imagine doing this to another human being, I really can't. I have things to do too. Even if I am not busy, if I invite the person that's one thing, but it's quite another if you ask me. If you ask, you are going to get denied. For all I know, your purchase had a pricing error or credit card issue or check issue or WIC issue, now I am standing for another 5-10 minutes waiting for a CSM to come to fix the issue or a person that writes a check or a person that waits to get every penny out of their purse for change. Even if it's a 40 second- a minute transaction, that was ********MY MINUTE OF MY LIFE and SHE ISN'T A QUEEN TO GET TO BYPASS THE LINE JUST AS I NEVER DO********. I don't bypass the line, I don't expect anyone else to be able to do so either. It's a 2-way street. I wait my turn as that's how morally it's supposed to go. The only time I haven't is back when I said I used to invite people in front of me and sometimes people would do the same for me if I had one item. Now I just simply decline the offer if people offer for me to get in front of them since I don't do that anymore. I just wait my turn. I am just so SICK of the SELFISH people of the world. WHY if you are people that do this crap, WHY do you do it? WHY do you think you are a queen or king above everyone else that you don't have to wait, but we do? Also, my first story, why would this lady think her 5 seconds that she wanted to save it SOOOOO MUCH to put something she didn't even have to do and not just do it after she finished? I don't quite understand that lady? I mean what was the big deal if she had waited until after she finished her return to put her recycling stuff in the bin? WOW HOW HORRIBLE she had to take 5 more seconds of her life so she wouldn't leave the line. Maybe, just maybe, she learned from it not to do that so she wouldn't have to get mad. I would do it again in a HEARTBEAT, because if I would have something to do like that I would have either done it before or after the line, NOT while in line leave the line. That just doesn't make ANY SENSE. I don't understand if people don't have time to do the recycling to take 5 extra seconds, WHY DO IT THEN? I mean I don't get it? WHY do people think they can get out of the line(as I said, that elastic line barrier is there for a REAL REASON) and then expect go come back in the same spot in line when they left. Of course after she did it the 2nd time, she of course reclaimed the spot by cutting(as I said she tried to cut once, but didn't succeed with me). She acted like I was cutting. She was cutting. She left the line. NO spot is there for that person once they leave the line and the cart is the cart of the store ownership. Even if let's say she would have been stupid to leave something she owned like her purse there, that still doesn't keep the spot for you, you have to be ********PHYSICALLY THERE OR SOMEONE HOLDS THE SPOT FOR YOU**********. I care about my time and I have shit to do too, so I was NOT going to wait longer if I didn't have to just as she wanted to save her precious 5 seconds, so did I. I have EVERY RIGHT to my extra seconds or minutes as she does. EVERYONE ARE ***EQUALS*** in this world when it comes to time.
WHY people are so mean and selfish in the world like this that they think we have to bow down to them when they leave the line or don't get there first? As if they are more important? NO, they aren't. Everyone has things to do and it's rude to ask to cut, it's rude to be the cashier that let a lady cut, it's rude to cut like the customer that came back over 20 minutes later to claim her item, it was rude to try to get back in line after leaving, especially over a minute worth or even when there is a elastic barrier showing you that the line is there and nowhere else. I really don't get her reaction at the end because we both got our turn at the same time with 2 different return's cashiers? I didn't call her anything, because I am not going to get thrown out for her temper tantrum. She was acting like a spoiled brat that didn't get her way. She shouldn't have told me one thing. She should have known that she left the line and deserved to now be in the back of me. That's how it's supposed to work. I never tried to save my 5 seconds as I said to do ANYTHING. When I have, I don't expect the spot I had back and NEVER WOULD FATHOM such a ********RIDICULOUS********* thing.
So public, what is your opinion? WHY would you disagree with me when they are the ones being selfish? Also, is this YOU?? Do you expect the world to wait for you?
I edited my age and how long I was married since this post.
Here's a story, probably too long for you to read and it may have some of the stuff I spoke about. I wrote this a long time ago on a forum post many years ago and I am just copying and pasting my own work from MS Word:
One day I was in line at a store(Target) to return something with my basket of a few items. A lady was in front of me. They had this elastic band to show where the line was so you would have to literally go underneath it to get out the line. They had outside the line further away towards the window and door area some recycle bins. The lady that was in front of me had other people that were being checked out at the returns area ahead of her. This lady was SOOOOO VERY IMPATIENT she decided to actually get out the line to put something in the recycle bin. So what I did since she actually DID TRULY get out the line, I went in front of my basket and WOW she THREW A HISSY FIT literally trying to get in front of me as if she just didn't get out the line. She was "I was only gone for a few seconds." I told her "You could easily wait to do this AFTER or have done it BEFORE you got in line." "You leave a line, you lose your spot." I also told her" I **********NEVER*********************** leave lines and expect to *******************EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER*********** get the spot I ****HAD***(PAST TENSE) back. When I have forgotten something either I check out what I do have and go back to get what I forgot, then go in to like the 10 items or less line or self-check out OR I decide to next time get it. I don't act like I am supposed to get back in the spot for ANY REASON. I don't care WHAT reason she had. There were times I saw like a dime on the ground and decided not to leave the line because I knew if I left the line, I would lose my spot and it wasn't worth 10 cents to leave the line for. I even made an example to her that if I forgot my money in car at Burger King, would I just be able to come back as if I never left and especially if someone else that wasn't in line made it before she came back that's another thing. She went ballistic crazy acting as if I did something horrible when she is the person that decided to be TOO IMPATIENT to WAIT until AFTER she was done with her return. So she would have had to take 5 seconds or so after she returned her items to put the items in the recycle bin, WOW, I don't get WHY her time was MORE PRECIOUS than ANYONE ELSE'S IN THIS UNIVERSE that she thought she could just magically come back without even ASKING if it was OK with me? I do mind since my time is important to me just as hers is. I don't ***EVER*** do this to another person in the world and that's why I feel so strongly as to why I did it. My time is important too and I would have loved to save seconds doing something else like reading a magazine for a few minutes instead of staring into space or something until the next person in line. I don't do that though. I don't care if it's 5 seconds you are gone, you left the line so you lose the spot you had. That's how lines work.
If you think about when they have black friday how people are with lines. You don't leave and expect to get back in unless you have someone you are with holding the spot for you.
This lady was so loud I was afraid she was going to get us both banned, so I just told the lady to be quite about it and "stop this." Then, get this, she again this time asking the cashiers since there were people behind her now, "Can I go put these other bags I have in the recycle bin and be able to come back in line?" I couldn't believe this lady? She was bitching and complaining the entire time. I would do this again in a heartbeat, because I don't go outside the line once or twice and expect to just come back in line as if I NEVER LEFT. That has NEVER been how lines work. You don't leave. The store's shopping cart doesn't hold the spot you had if you had a shopping cart(she did). On black friday, I don't see people leaving shopping carts the night before and just coming back to reclaim the spot, I see them camping out to make sure they have their spot. So if I was in the wrong, NO ONE would camp outside in the cold if that was the case. Also, the cashiers of the return's line would have corrected me and they didn't say a word, because this lady was making a SCENE in the store LOUD like a LUNATIC as if someone just stole something from her or hurt her physically when NONE of that occurred.
WHY do you think they have the elastic line barriers? To show "THIS IS THE LINE and OUTSIDE OF THIS IS NOT THE LINE." That's why they have it.
I just cannot believe how IMPATIENT this lady was?? Why was it such a big deal to save 5 seconds(maybe 7 seconds if you count her 2nd trip out the line later on) that she could have just done that AFTER she finished her return? I don't quite get why should the person behind her has to give a care about her time when she sure didn't care about my time or the people that ended up being behind her? She was so SELFISH herself. We ended up having the 2 cashiers free at the same time so we got our turns at the same time anyway so then when I was in line still since my situation I got a manager involved for my price matches, she called me a "bitch" as she left. That was sooooo IMMATURE of her and IDIOTIC. Especially when our turns ended up being at the same time since both cashiers finished at the same time so we both got to go up at the same time.
I don't quite get why she was so mad about it and why her precious 5 seconds savings had to be done while she was in line only to get out the line to do that and why she didn't just do it BEFORE she got in line or AFTER? I don't quite get this? It's like WOW lady, you are that impatient I thought to myself? I don't get out of lines no matter what as I said before, I just don't. I don't expect the shopping cart or even my jacket to hold the spot that I was in to get something. I have NEVER ONCE done this and I am 39yrs old. I have been around LOTS of lines and NEVER ONCE left a line and expected the spot I ************************HAD******************************************** back as if I never left. I NEVER have done this before. I always if I had to leave the line, either go back in the same line back of the line or go to another line. I don't do this kind of a thing. I also don't get the RUSHINESS of this lady? If she didn't have time, she should not have recycled first of all since by law you don't have to do this, secondly, if you don't have time to return something, go next time you go to the store, thirdly, as I said why not do it after you get out the line or before you get in line? WHY leave a line and then expect to get back in just because the basket that is OWNED BY THE STORE is going to hold the spot you had and WHY they have the elastic band to show where the line is if you can truly leave the line?
This was the most ridiculous thing and she acted like I was wrong. I wasn't wrong. As I said before, if I was wrong then EVERYONE could do this and leave the basket they have the items in they want and not be there in line. I don't care if it was a few seconds. I don't do it, I expect others to do the same to respect my time that I take time away from my life to do things afterwards or before I get in line, she should too.
Also, my time is VERY IMPORTANT to me JUST AS HERS IS and if I can get a spot in line faster, WHY NOT? She didn't care about my time or the other people that came after her either. If she did, she would have either waited until she finished her return or done it beforehand or if she wanted to do it then, she should have gotten out the line with the cart and went into the back of the line. That's how MORALLY it SHOULD HAVE BEEN and she didn't do that.
Another story was at Walmart. I was waiting in a VERY LONG line like probably 15-20 minutes. As I was paying with my credit card so the machine had to do it's thing so it took some moments to process, this lady came up to get an item that apparently she had forgotten. I couldn't believe my eyes. The cashier actually was ended up ringing her up and the customer didn't even say anything. If that would have been me next, I sure the HELL WOULD have said "That's cutting, she needs to go to another checkout line, we have been waiting for like 20 minutes and all the people behind us." I don't understand why the cashier did that? If I were the cashier, I would have told the lady she needed to either get in the back of the line or go into another line(perhaps either self checkout or 10 items or less line). It's the principle of it. It's sure not fair and this lady was NOT in line when I nor the person behind me was in line. It's like this lady was gone for probably 25 minutes or so and just appeared. I have ALWAYS lived on MORALS AND PRINCIPLES to do the MORALLY RIGHT THING. I didn't get involved since it wasn't my turn that was altered since I had to get home myself, but would have been furious and if the cashier would have done this, I would have made a complaint to a manager about it for sure. I am not sure if they would have cared, but it IS TRULY the wrong moral thing to do. Cutting is cutting and you can't just leave, then get back in line. I don't care if it's one item, that's time taking away from someone else's life. We all have things to do. Our time is precious, especially if you are at Walmart you wait your life away in line at Walmart when you go at busy times like after work at night time like it was probably 6p.m. or later. It was VERY BUSY as I said how long we were waiting in line. I felt bad for this guy. I almost was going to invite him in front of me since he had less but I had a lot of things to do at home and it was late as it was, plus I had been waiting in line a long time already. I am sure glad I didn't though, because then that would have maybe happened to me if I would have done that. I felt bad for the guy, because we had waited a VERY LONG TIME and then finally when he was going to get his turn, the cashier decides to let this lady cut. I don't understand the mean world? WHY would a cashier do this? The cashier should have told the lady that she had to go into another line or get behind the line as I said. I know that's what I would have done for SURE without ANY DOUBTS in my mind what-so-ever. That's just the right thing to do. I don't care if she was in line before, she wasn't anymore and that was the entire point. This was even worse in a way than the other situation, because this lady was gone for maybe a half an hour who knows and then pops back in as if she didn't leave like WTH?? Everyone's seconds is important to them and I sure would NOT have let the crap happen if that would have been me. I would have put my foot down and said something like "OH NO YOU DON'T, I'm NEXT and so is the other people behind us that have been waiting." I would have scanned at least one item myself just to make sure she couldn't have done that crap. It's just not fair. We all have shit to do. I would have told the cashier that"It's cutting and we have been waiting like 20 minutes here, have some sympathy and make her go into another shorter line." If I would have been the customer, I wouldn't have even *********FATHOMED************ the cashier checking out the item. I would have immediately went to a shorter line like 10 items or less or checked out in jewelry(usually has not many people or something like that). I wouldn't have even THOUGHT to do that and if the cashier would have suggested it, I would have turned her down, because it's CUTTING, because it TRULY IS HONESTLY CUTTING!
Another time, I had a situation where a man had a big box at Walmart in the garden center area in front of me and another man that was checking out in front of him, so I was third in line in other words. The man in front of me with the big box said to the cashier he'd be right back to get a shopping cart. He was gone for around a minute or so since he had to go all the WAYYYY to the other entrance to get a shopping cart since we were in the garden center. I moved up, because he left the line. He comes back eventually and says to me something like this "Ma'am I was there before you." I told him "You left the line, you leave a line you lose the spot you had." I couldn't believe that the jerk in front of me was on his side which by the time then was paying. I don't understand why they think BOXES that are the property of WALMART HOLD their spots?
If you think about it, on Black Friday for example, if "THINGS" held your spot, NO ONE WOULD GO THROUGH THE HUGE TROUBLE OF CAMPING OUT DAYS ON END FOR THE SALES. They'd just leave, for example, a back pack or suit case or even a shopping cart or what have you with their name on it and return the next morning instantly have the first spot in line. He'd come back that morning time the store opens(like if it's 4a.m., they'd come back at 3:55a.m. to reclaim their spot). But in real life as we ALL KNOW, real life DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!! I am right, they were wrong.
WHY do people think that it's "THEIR SPOT" when they aren't in line anymore? WHY are people like this?
I have had people leave to get bread or something that they forgot as if the groceries in their cart and cart are holding their spot. There's NO SUCH THING as this. YOU have to be PHYSICALLY THERE or SOMEONE has to be physically there to hold the spot you had. Notice I said HAD, so if there is someone there, then that's a person that is in the spot that is yours, but if no one is there, WHY do people think they can just jump back in line as if they never left the line? I have NEVER heard of this?
The man also probably wouldn't have said anything if another customer was there that wasn't, it was only because I was there he said something I would think. If he would have, if I would have came afterwards, I would say "No you weren't in line, the box that WALMART OWNS is there, that's it. I mean he had to go all the way out to the front of the store to get the cart and then go all the way back to the garden center, which is a GOOD minute to a minute and a half probably walk at least. I cannot imagine thinking I'd get the spot I had back. I wouldn't have DREAMED of telling the person something. I mean if I left the line, I would have NEVER thought I could magically get back in because I was too IRRESPONSIBLE to get a shopping cart *************BEFORE************ I decided to get in line. That's so IRRESPONSIBLE! If he needed a shopping cart, he should not have gotten in line to begin with. That box wasn't even his even and then acting so like he owned it. The cashier saw this all and didn't say a word. You know why? Because I am right. The cashier couldn't defend the man. I couldn't believe the guy in front of me as he was paying was AGREEING with this jerk. It's like SO WHAT if he was there, he left a LONG TIME that if it was during a busy time, 3-4 people could have been there in that amount of time. Seriously, this was ignorant of both the customers. The cashier didn't say anything, because I was next, because I truly was. That time, I actually did have time, because that was a time in 2012 that I had been laid off. The thing was, I wanted to have MORALS and DO THE "RIGHT THING", because the man will do this again since I go to this Walmart to me or another person again if I would ever see him and I don't want him to do this to others. He needs to have morals in his life. TRULY, if I would have been that man, I would NOT have even thought ONCE that I should have the spot reclaimed back to me. I would have left the line and he didn't ask me, he just left the box and told the cashier he was getting a shopping cart. As I said, this was WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY the hell back in the garden center, so it did take him a good minute or so to get back. When I saw he wasn't coming back after a few moments, I moved up. That's when he said something to me that he was there. The GALL of people to be that SELFISH that a BOX holds the spot you had*(PAST TENSE)*, the box you don't even own yet(not that it matters, but it makes it even more stupid to act like something you don't own holds a spot in line), then leaves a line for a good minute to a minute and a half as if no one else can come in the line during that time which is crazy, then only cares about his time as if he is the only person on this earth. I don't understand this selfish world we live in? WHY don't people have MORALS? I grew up with morals. As I said, if I were the man doing that same thing, I would have first off gotten my basket BEFORE I got in line instead of doing that crap, but if I would have not gotten the basket before I got in line, I would have not thought I could just reclaim the spot I had. NEVER in my WILDEST DREAMS would have I thought that, especially how LONG he left, that was even longer than the lady at Target. The thing is, leaving a line for ANY REASON is unacceptable except for something like if your child is walking away, I will accept something reasonable like that and you come back within 3 seconds and that is only because that's children, but even so, I still feel the parent should have their kid under control possibly in the basket with the seat strap or something. In my eyes, that's the only reason you should even think of leaving a line. If you forget bread or milk or want a coke from the aisle further away, if you have to leave the line to get it, then you shouldn't get the spot you had back since you decided to either not get what you needed before or not do what I do which is as I said check out what I do have and then go into another line to check out that one item. I NEVER alter someone else's time for my own time. I am not selfish like that. I am VERY CONSIDERATE and think of other people that think of MY FEELINGS and MY TIME by NOT doing these things. They are only caring about themselves, so why can't I do the same?
5 people in all the over 16 years I have been married have and gone to stores, have asked to cut. All 5 of them were turned down. Get this, one lady asked to cut to buy cigarettes when I have shit to do at home and she wants her cancer sticks. Seriously. If you are in a hurry go to a GAS STATION to get cigarettes not WALMART, because Walmart you WILL PAY WITH YOUR TIME ALWAYS! Getting the best deal will not get you the best time frame. Even at Walgreens will give you a better time frame than Walmart. This lady was mean because I turned her down. It's like if I could do this I would. Then, NO ONE would have to wait their turn in line. HOW is that morally right or fair? This lady was SOOOOO SELFISH, just like the other people I have mentioned.
WHY are people so SELFISH in this world? People are SOOOOO FREAKIN MEAN. They block you to get a parking space to you have to wait, they block you in traffic so you can't go, etc. People are SOOOO MEAN and HATEFUL in this world. They are FREAKIN SELFISH A$$HOLES!
As I said before, if these people were right, then WHY do people camp out on Black Friday rather than leaving a physical object to hold their spot, huh? Obviously, I am 100% correct on this and they aren't since that simply proves it.
So basically, what is the public's opinion and why do you people leave the line, then expect to get the spot back you *HAD*? I don't understand?
What would you think if you were in any of these situations? Like the situation with the cashier letting the lady cut, would you have been OK with that after waiting 15-20 minutes already? Would you like for someone to ask to cut and think you can't do it too, wouldn't it be nice? It would be nice if we could all be first, and never wait, wouldn't it? There have been times during the years where I VOLUNTARILY invited he person that had one item that they could get in front of me, but I don't do it anymore since now-a-days I see how people have been so SELFISH to me personally It's one thing when you invite the person, it's quite another when they are asking to cut. Those people had some nerve and gall as if they are ABOVE others in the universe as if their shit don't stink or something. I don't get it?
Why is the world so SELFISH and does ANYONE see my point of view as to that these things are SOOO IMMORAL of what these people have done to me? It's SOOO MEAN AND SELFISH, it's UNREAL! HOW more selfish can you get out of these people? Especially the 5 people that asked to cut it's like HUH? I don't get it? WE ALL HAVE SHIT TO DO! My time is important on this earth every second and yours is too, but if you decide to go to a busy store like Walmart, you will pay with your time. If you don't like waiting that much, don't go to these places. No one makes people go to these places. The cigarette lady was really ridiculous. I mean so cancer sticks are more important than my purchases? I have a life too and I was hungry to fix dinner, go shower, etc. for my work day the next day. Cigarettes aren't a necessity in life. If she would have been first, then it would have been fair for her to go first, but she wasn't, I made it to the line first. I just can't believe someone has the GALL to think their seconds of time are MORE IMPORTANT than OTHER PEOPLE'S IN THE WORLD to ask to cut. I don't ask to cut, NEVER, EVER*****************EVER****************** have done this. That's just RUDE, RUDE, RUDE as all hell. I can't imagine doing this to another human being, I really can't. I have things to do too. Even if I am not busy, if I invite the person that's one thing, but it's quite another if you ask me. If you ask, you are going to get denied. For all I know, your purchase had a pricing error or credit card issue or check issue or WIC issue, now I am standing for another 5-10 minutes waiting for a CSM to come to fix the issue or a person that writes a check or a person that waits to get every penny out of their purse for change. Even if it's a 40 second- a minute transaction, that was ********MY MINUTE OF MY LIFE and SHE ISN'T A QUEEN TO GET TO BYPASS THE LINE JUST AS I NEVER DO********. I don't bypass the line, I don't expect anyone else to be able to do so either. It's a 2-way street. I wait my turn as that's how morally it's supposed to go. The only time I haven't is back when I said I used to invite people in front of me and sometimes people would do the same for me if I had one item. Now I just simply decline the offer if people offer for me to get in front of them since I don't do that anymore. I just wait my turn. I am just so SICK of the SELFISH people of the world. WHY if you are people that do this crap, WHY do you do it? WHY do you think you are a queen or king above everyone else that you don't have to wait, but we do? Also, my first story, why would this lady think her 5 seconds that she wanted to save it SOOOOO MUCH to put something she didn't even have to do and not just do it after she finished? I don't quite understand that lady? I mean what was the big deal if she had waited until after she finished her return to put her recycling stuff in the bin? WOW HOW HORRIBLE she had to take 5 more seconds of her life so she wouldn't leave the line. Maybe, just maybe, she learned from it not to do that so she wouldn't have to get mad. I would do it again in a HEARTBEAT, because if I would have something to do like that I would have either done it before or after the line, NOT while in line leave the line. That just doesn't make ANY SENSE. I don't understand if people don't have time to do the recycling to take 5 extra seconds, WHY DO IT THEN? I mean I don't get it? WHY do people think they can get out of the line(as I said, that elastic line barrier is there for a REAL REASON) and then expect go come back in the same spot in line when they left. Of course after she did it the 2nd time, she of course reclaimed the spot by cutting(as I said she tried to cut once, but didn't succeed with me). She acted like I was cutting. She was cutting. She left the line. NO spot is there for that person once they leave the line and the cart is the cart of the store ownership. Even if let's say she would have been stupid to leave something she owned like her purse there, that still doesn't keep the spot for you, you have to be ********PHYSICALLY THERE OR SOMEONE HOLDS THE SPOT FOR YOU**********. I care about my time and I have shit to do too, so I was NOT going to wait longer if I didn't have to just as she wanted to save her precious 5 seconds, so did I. I have EVERY RIGHT to my extra seconds or minutes as she does. EVERYONE ARE ***EQUALS*** in this world when it comes to time.
WHY people are so mean and selfish in the world like this that they think we have to bow down to them when they leave the line or don't get there first? As if they are more important? NO, they aren't. Everyone has things to do and it's rude to ask to cut, it's rude to be the cashier that let a lady cut, it's rude to cut like the customer that came back over 20 minutes later to claim her item, it was rude to try to get back in line after leaving, especially over a minute worth or even when there is a elastic barrier showing you that the line is there and nowhere else. I really don't get her reaction at the end because we both got our turn at the same time with 2 different return's cashiers? I didn't call her anything, because I am not going to get thrown out for her temper tantrum. She was acting like a spoiled brat that didn't get her way. She shouldn't have told me one thing. She should have known that she left the line and deserved to now be in the back of me. That's how it's supposed to work. I never tried to save my 5 seconds as I said to do ANYTHING. When I have, I don't expect the spot I had back and NEVER WOULD FATHOM such a ********RIDICULOUS********* thing.
So public, what is your opinion? WHY would you disagree with me when they are the ones being selfish? Also, is this YOU?? Do you expect the world to wait for you?