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April 7, 2006, 1:27 pm PDT
04/07 Social Taboos: Is This Normal?
Quote From: saemaeI had to stop watching Phil because of the gross sex fanatics, so I don't know the whole story. I'm talking about the lady who wants people to use the divider when they are at the grocery store. I am with her 100%.
Here's the problem I have had. When the person behind me doesn't use the divider, I usually end up with several of their items before I can get the brain-dead teenaged cashier to stop mindlessly running things by the scanner. The customer behind me is too busy looking at the Soap Opera Digest to notice. I put the divider up if the person responsible (the next customer or the person behind me) neglects to do so. I don't make much of it, and I don't expect them to make anything of it either. The strange part is the only person who seems to mind is the brain-dead teenager. They absolutely hate having to put that extremely heavy piece of plastic back the eight inches it moved away from its origin. It makes me want to laugh when they roll their eyes because the divider totally ruined their day! LOL. You say you agree with the woman 100% but she was saying that it would be YOUR responsibility to put the bar down behind your groceries so when the next person comes up they can just put their groceries down and it's already seperated. I agree with YOU 100%, and the other people who have commented, that it is the second person's responsibility to place the bar. When I come to the register and someone is already at the register having their groceries rung up it is my responsibility to pick up the bar and put it behind their order and then put my groceries on the conveyer. It is not their responsibility to put the bar down in anticipation of a second customer. We are responsibile for seperating our own order from the person ahead of us. And it's fine to be irritated by something but it is not in any way ok to put extra groceries in with someone else's order for them to pay for. It is not this woman's job, nor her right, to teach other adults any lesson. You cannot say you want to make the world a better place and in the same breath say, and with a smile on your face, that you sneak something extra in with someone's groceries that they didn't want and that they have to pay for. THAT is selfish. These people don't know they're irritating her, they're not trying to, and she says, "Well, I'm gonna show you!!" She's punishing people for annoying her when they aren't even aware that they are!! Grow up! As adults, we have to realize that people do not always do what we want them to do but we do not have the right to go around "teaching them a lesson".
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