paget
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Post by paget on Aug 28, 2015 20:21:41 GMT
Bobby is absolutely the asshole! Jessica made it back in time.
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Post by ChicagoKTS on Aug 28, 2015 20:23:52 GMT
Definitely Jessica. One time the couple ahead of me forgot something and she sent the guy to go pick it up. The cashier finished ringing the order, everything was bagged and in the cart and the guy still hadn't returned. After a minute or so, I said loudly just pay for your order. Well, guess what, the girl didn't have any money to pay for it. I just looked at the cashier and he did something in the register and called the customer service desk. Someone came over to take the cart and the woman to the CS counter to wait and pay when the guy finally appeared. Our order was completed and the guy still hadn't shown-up. As we were pulling out of the parking space, the couple was just walking across the lot with their groceries. They gave us a dirty look and while not my finest moment, I just flipped her off.
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jayfab
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Post by jayfab on Aug 28, 2015 20:35:33 GMT
Jessica is in the wrong & I knew you'd be Bobby!
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Post by mollycoddle on Aug 28, 2015 20:45:22 GMT
Jessica.
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Post by kamper on Aug 28, 2015 20:56:36 GMT
Jessica but, I'm highly adverse to making others wait on me. I think its the height of rudeness. Your reply was perfect.
How on earth did she think she was going to get back in time? It's like a quarter mile from the check-out to the eggs in my HEB.
Maybe people need to stop eating eggs. They seem to be causing a lot of problems lately.
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Jili
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Post by Jili on Aug 28, 2015 21:16:21 GMT
Everyone's thinking on this thread is so black and white. I have a whole system for this scenario, which has made me Jessica on numerous occasions, except I haven't annoyed anyone. I get to the register and Gladys is ahead of me, unloading her groceries. I survey my cart and realize damn! I forgot the paprika. I check Gladys's progress. She has a few more things to unload. At this point I assess how much longer I think it will take her to unload, bag and pay. OK. A couple more minutes. Next, where is the paprika? If it's in the first half of the three closest aisles to the register and I know where it is and don't have to hunt for it, I run for it. Obviously if there are other people behind me, or if it's in Outer Mongolia in the store, I am SOL and will either go through the checkout again or get it on my next trip since I'm at the store every fricking day it seems. This is essentially my system, too.
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Jili
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Post by Jili on Aug 28, 2015 21:16:35 GMT
Maybe people need to stop eating eggs. They seem to be causing a lot of problems lately. I had this same thought! LOL.
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Post by Regina Phalange on Aug 28, 2015 21:20:02 GMT
It's so funny because I thought you were in line behind Bobby watching this whole thing unfold...lol.
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Post by Layce on Aug 28, 2015 21:22:19 GMT
referring to OPI only let old people do that. Edited to change that to, The Elderly.
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Post by Sam on Aug 28, 2015 21:43:12 GMT
Setting the scene: grocery store at the most wicked busy time --right after work. Lines three or four carts deep at every open checkout. Bobby gets in line at a checkstand and after a moment notices the cart in front of him has no person with it. About half the stuff is on the belt. Another customer is ahead of the customer-less cart. Bobby looks around for the person who is absent. Can't see anyone. When the customer ahead is nearly done paying, Bobby shoves the cart out of the way, pushes the loaded items back to the start of the belt, puts the divider in front of that stuff, and loads his stuff onto the belt. Jessica comes to the checkstand with her eggs in hand - she only needed to grab that one thing she forgot - and gets upset about Bobby moving her stuff back. Says line cutting is wrong. Bobby tells her she is the rude one for abandoning her cart when the store is this busy and for expecting that everyone will wait while she holds a place in line with her stuff while she finishes shopping. So kids, who is the asshole? My answer is WHO THE HELL KNOWS!!!! Initially, I was all with Jessica being the a/hole, despite some others saying she got back there......neither Bobby or the cashier KNEW she would, she just happened to. Plus, I have been through that kind of crap with others in the queue before and it more often than not leads to me waiting for far too long. BUT THEN I thought, hang on a minute, Jessica might only have 7 or 8 items and Bobby might have a trolley full of stuff which would take a long time to check out. So, maybe, he should have waited. And, someone else was going through, so it wasn't as though, at that stage, anyone was actually waiting. After all this thought and visualising, I decided I couldn't care less who was in the right but if someone linked the whole incident on YouTube, I'd give it a view!
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AnotherPea
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Post by AnotherPea on Aug 28, 2015 21:46:24 GMT
It depends...did Jessica have enough stuff on the belt for the cashier to ring up while she was getting the eggs? If yes and she gets back with the eggs without pausing the cashier I would be okay with that and Bobby is the asshole. However, if she put only a few items on and the cashier had to wait for her to get back then I would be frustrated with Jessica. But how is Bobby to know?
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Post by Clair on Aug 28, 2015 21:49:24 GMT
I think you were both rude.
Not your place to move the groceries. What did. The cashier do? It was the cashiers place to handle the situation.
He shouldn't have yelled at for you.
I don't understand why you let this turn into a confrontation.... When he told you were rude you should have just said you didn't think he was coming back.
Situations like this happen all the time in stores around here. I've been on both sides. I usually tell the cashier and tell her to ring my stuff if I'm not back. If I would have been you I would have just waited or asked the cashier what to do.
Im not a pushover by any means but I don't live my life looking to be put out.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 28, 2015 21:52:41 GMT
I must be the real b!tch in these situations.
If I am missing ONE item and it's in the front 1/3 of the store, and I know where it is, I wait until the cashier starts my order, tell him/her then run to get it.
Back 2/3 of the store and I finish transaction and go back or get it next time.
I don't think either person in the OP was rude or an a-hole UNTIL rude words were exchanged, at that point Jessica WAS a complete A- hole. If you abandon your cart without a word to anyone in a store at rush hour you have to have some expectation of loosing your spot. If the person in front of you abandoned their cart at rush hour without any word to anyone well then why is it wrong to try to get things moving along? It's rush hour! Everyobe is busy. Communicate with either the cashier or the person behind you ( or both ) it really works.
Coming back and being an ass about it is well being an assplain and simple.
Hope your feeling well Compwalla's, your in my thoughts and prayers.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Aug 28, 2015 21:53:50 GMT
Jessica!
At my grocery store, the cashier will send the bagging person to go get something if you want them too. Otherwise, they will go slowly or only hold things up if there is no one else in line.
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Post by peasapie on Aug 28, 2015 22:02:43 GMT
I vote for Jessica. I think it's wrong for a cashier to be expected to start ringing things for someone who isn't there.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2015 22:32:45 GMT
I think she is.
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scrapaddie
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Post by scrapaddie on Aug 28, 2015 22:37:04 GMT
When this has happened to me, the person in front of me checked with me before she left.... Jessica should have done that or not gone at all
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2015 22:38:30 GMT
I do t have a problem with running to grab a forgotten item. If you aren't back before your turn, it's completely reasonable for the next person in line to go.
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Post by bluepoprocks on Aug 28, 2015 22:41:37 GMT
Jessica
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Post by Dixie Lou on Aug 28, 2015 22:45:30 GMT
How was Bobby to know when Jessica would be back? The person in front of Jessica was almost done paying, right?
Jessica is the asshole.
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Post by nurseypants on Aug 28, 2015 22:51:51 GMT
I don't know but I really like this game.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2015 22:55:28 GMT
It depends...did Jessica have enough stuff on the belt for the cashier to ring up while she was getting the eggs? If yes and she gets back with the eggs without pausing the cashier I would be okay with that and Bobby is the asshole. However, if she put only a few items on and the cashier had to wait for her to get back then I would be frustrated with Jessica. But if no one knows WHERE Jessica went and how long she will be gone, then the cashier starts ringing everyone is stuck until Jessica decides to show back up. It could be one carton of eggs. It could be half a dozen various items that took her 15 minutes to find. I vote Jessica is the rude one. SHE needed to have decided to either check out, then go get eggs. Or reloaded her cart and left the line. Bobby's actions were fine.
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Post by melanell on Aug 28, 2015 23:12:11 GMT
I agree with everyone who said that this game should be a thing here forever now.
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Post by melanell on Aug 28, 2015 23:14:24 GMT
I've never seen a HEB in my life, but I know that in the vast majority of stores, eggs are far away from the registers because stores often purposely put the basics as far back in the store as possible to get customers to pass multiple other items on their way to the basics.
So leaving my stuff on the belt for eggs is nothing at all like walking 2 check-outs over looking for a magazine or running to a close-by aisle.
but even if you run to a close aisle, you are taking a chance on having to disrupt others upon your return, and I try not to do that. With my luck someone disabled in a motorized cart would be the person who came behind me or a pregnant women with 3 kids, and I would feel like the world's biggest heel to make them all back out of the check-out lane or try to scoot over to let me back in.
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Post by JustKim on Aug 28, 2015 23:54:48 GMT
Jessica. I would also check out and go back. Because it is so busy people are already on edge because of the lines so if someone leaves their cart and is no where around and the guy is almost done I would be upset too. I also see some people get in line as others are shopping still and bring things to the cart. I dont like that either
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Post by Peace Sign on Aug 29, 2015 0:02:51 GMT
That's a fun game!
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Post by johnnysmom on Aug 29, 2015 0:07:18 GMT
Jessica for sure. The only acceptable reason to leave a cart while in line is either to grab something from a nearby checkout lane or on Black Friday when the line is wrapped around the store. That day it's kinda common practice to tell the person behind you that you're going to "run down this aisle real quick", if the line moves they'll push your cart ahead the few inches, no doubt you'll be back in plenty of time.
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Post by moveablefeast on Aug 29, 2015 0:07:11 GMT
I don't mind waiting a moment or two for someone to grab something else that's nearby, but I do mind waiting longer than that for someone to run through the store and get something that's clear in the back and think it's better for them to finish one transaction then leave the cart and return for the forgotten item.
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Post by tduby1 on Aug 29, 2015 1:35:37 GMT
I never leave the line unless it's to go a register or two away to grab something or DH is with me to finish the transaction if I dont make it make in time, so I vote Jessica.
Here is one, once I was in a teeny tiny grocery store. One register. One person in line ahead of me, a crotchety asshole behind me. To my right, against the wall, three steps away was an ice cream cooler. You know, the sliding top kind. Placed there to entice you with an impulse buy as you check out. I stepped out of line, took three steps, to peer into the freezer and as soon as I did the jerk behind me pulled my cart back and pushed his in front of mine. I was so close he actually bumped me with the carts when he was moving them around. I turned around, mouth gaping open, the person checking out turned around mouth gaping open and cashier's jaw dropped. The teenaged cashier said nothing, which was fine. I said nothing because I figured his life must be miserable enough. Now he was clearly as asshole!
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ModChick
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Post by ModChick on Aug 29, 2015 1:47:11 GMT
I was Jessica once but the "Bobby" behind me said you go run for your eggs and I'll unload the rest of your cart! Once in awhile someone renews my faith in humanity. It's called compassion people, have some!!
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