Peeve of the day: Grocery line "pushers"

[Coventina]

I hate pushy people in grocery lines.
What I mean is people who crowd right behind you, like they're trying to push you along faster or something. It is REALLY annoying to me. I personally don't like to hover over the person in front of me, so I "give them space". But I've always got some moran behind me breathing down my neck while I'm putting stuff on the counter or going through the paying process.
:mad:

What do they think? That by them looming over me while my purchase goes through that my credit card will be approved faster somehow??

I really hate it when they ram my cart with theirs, when they apparently think I haven't pulled up far enough. What is wrong with these people?!?!? Giving them dirty looks doesn't help, they just give me a dirty one back. Apparently I'M the one in the wrong.
:eyes:

Well, I don't care, I'm not going to start being rude to the person in front of me, just because I've got an impatient idiot behind me.

[LiberalEsto]

1. Maybe they're trying to

read your credit card numbers....

[Coventina]

4. I've thought of that, but the behavior is so consistent...

I just can't believe that all those people behind me are really trying to steal my cc number.

But that's one reason why I like to give the person ahead of me some "privacy space". Very few people pay by cash in the grocery store anymore, it seems to be all credit, debit, check or food stamps. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think all of those transactions deserve a little degree of privacy.

[kick-ass-bob]

2. they don't do that to me

after I turn and kick the shit out of their buggy!

:evilgrin:

[TreasonousBastard]

8. You could just try...

cutting a really nasty fart and letting the green cloud do it's work.

No need for violence when silence is deadlier.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. And it's always the person...

with a cartload of junk in the express lane, who then proceeds to piss off everyone else because he or she can't get the damn card reader to work.

[hollywood926]

5. Where do you live?

Here in L.A., we have so many different people from different cultures and many of them don't share the same "sense of personal space" that most Americans do. It's often a cultural thing.

[Coventina]

9. Scottsdale, AZ

It's very, very whitebread around here.

In fact, yesterday when I was at the grocery store, there was an African American family in the store. I smiled at them without even thinking about it, because it was such a pleasant surprise.

[Phentex]

14. I've considered this...

I've been bumped and had the cart pushed into me and I'm not using a cc so I don't think they are trying to see around me. I am short and I think people just don't see me sometimes. That, and maybe they aren't aware of "my" space.... or it's a cultural thing.

It helps when I just stay where I am and push the cart back so it's not rolling onto my heel.

[newsguyatl]

6. i was JUST hovering over

a slow poke in front of me minutes ago... you're not in atlanta are you? ;-)

[politicat]

7. in all sorts of ques.

I have a serious thing about public personal space - I don't like people in my zone that I'm not well acquainted with. A few times when it's been really obnoxious, I've turned around, made withering eye contact and drawn myself up to my full (5'4") height and said as coldly and condescendingly as possible something to the effect of "Do you have a problem, or are you trying to steal my identity?"

It usually works, but it takes intestinal fortitude. But then, we know I'm bitchy. :evilgrin:

I don't coddle the rude. If their mammas failed to teach them, then the world will, and the world is a cruel school.

Pcat

[BurtWorm]

10. Okay, but I also get pissed at people who don't move with the line.

Especially in crowded bank foyers while waiting for an ATM. I hate it when the people at the head of the line ignore the fact that the line behind them is snaking out the door, leaving half of it out in the freezing rain because they're too self-absorbed or too hesitant to stand close enough together or in such a way that the line can bend and accommodate more people. :grr:

[Coventina]

11. Well, that's a totally different situation

And I would heartily agree with you in that instance.

[BurtWorm]

13. As I heartily agree with you in your instance.

Especially when someone has a grocery cart jamming into your shoes and back. Just thought I would add a line peeve while the subject was fresh. :hi:

[Semi_subversive]

12. I just ask them if they'd like to pay for my groceries too.

Really pisses them off, but they move.

[Left Is Write]

15. Yes, I wish people could wait until my transaction is actually

FINISHED before shoving me out of the way. And hey - could I at LEAST take the few seconds to put my card back in my wallet and my wallet back in my purse?

[Coventina]

16. EXACTLY!

I mean, they KNOW they are next, for gosh sakes! It's not like they have to fight for their turn to come. It's so annoying!!!!