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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[marahmarie]

The worst is no stickers so people would socially distance themselves by standing in what I can only describe as a loose sideways-ish zipper formation (Dollar General was the worst and it took them the longest of any stores I regularly go to to finally slap some damn stickers down - like, half of us could've been dead by then). I'd inevitably join the zipper not at the back of the line but by cutting someone without realizing it until that feeling of "eyes boring into my head" would make me ask someone nearby-ish "Did I just cut the line?" and apologize and back up.