Maybe it's just me...

[conuly]

but I kinda feel like if you're legitimately the second person on line then you should be at or at least broadly in the vicinity of the belt and not standing around staring vaguely into space some 20 feet away. Indeed, I would go so far as to point out that most people have already begun emptying their cart onto the belt by the time the person in front of them has checked out, thus further reinforcing the image of "A person standing on line - DO NOT CUT" that they of course want to project.

Honestly, my mistake was in replying to her in the first place. She damn well knew she was full of shit, she wasn't going to improve by being told.

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[conuly]

I read that last sentence as "It's okay to ram your cart into somebody if you're trying to mug them" and, damn, that's pragmatic but who says that aloud!?

[lilysea]

No, I meant as self defence!

eg Person A tries to mug Person B,

person B rams their cart into Person A to get away...

[conuly]

LOL, yeah, I worked it out afterwards :)

[lilysea]

^_^

Trust me, as someone who has chronic pain

and has had many carts rammed into me by grumpy entitled rich white women

(who would ram you if you delayed them in the supermarket aisles for like a second by existing where they wanted to zoom thru at high speed)

(when I was a uni student, the supermarket that I could catch the bus to was FULL of grumpy entitled rich white women! when they weren't ramming their cart into me, they were being rude to the cashiers)

I would never advocate deliberate cart ramming except in strict self-defense! ^_^

[marahmarie]

Arggh, your comment actually made me read this comment *both* ways - the way I think they intended it the first time, then the way you saw it/what it literally means the second time. Amazing, reminds me of the optical illusions that go: "If you see this thing in the image first that means you're this kind of person" so I look twice and bam!, there's the thing I didn't see, which means I'm actually some other kind of person. Oh, well.