'I am in no rush': Grocery store shopper gridlocks the self-checkout line after getting crowded by the person behind them

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Nov 11, 2023 6:00 PM EST

The worst thing in the world is that tingling icky feeling on the back of your neck when someone standing too close to you. Back off, buddy– ever heard of something called personal space? Well, for some people, personal space is an imaginary concept that doesn't deserve respect in public. Just take, for example, the pushy Karen's at the grocery store who feel obligated to stand half a step behind you in the check out line. 

NEWSFLASH: Breathing down the neck of the person in front of you isn't going to get you out the door any faster. In fact, if it's anything like our next story, crowding your predecessor in line is just going to drag out this entire process. At least, if you're grocery shopping with the likes of u/stark_savior. 

In our next story, one shopper gets a little payback against a pushy patron in the grocery line by reducing their speed to that of mollases in January. Scroll onward to enjoy a story that really taps into your own intrusive thoughts when shopping in public. Next up, here's another story of a Karenish type getting pwned in public by the realities of life; this time, at a hotel's front desk. 

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    "The only person's time we're wasting 7 here is yours"
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    r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/stark_saviour 18 hours ago A Grocery store check out. I am in no rush In line, like any good person I
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    give the person in front time and space to load their items onto the belt. However I can feel and sense the person behind me right up behind me. Giving all the passive aggressive signs of been in a rush and wanted to go fast. I
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    then start to load my items onto the moving belt. There is an inch of space on the end to which this person decides to start loading their items to. Despite clearly seeing my still half full cart. Now I
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    can 1, start frantically loading my items further down the belt like it's a race against time. 2 Politely tell this person I am not done loading. Or what I did was 3, allow their items to get messed up with mine and rung in. I have
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    no work today pall no rush fot me. The total gets told to me which I am shocked is more than I expected. At which point silly me I notice some of his items got put with mine. Oh no it's gonna take some time now to fix this and we
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    are all going to have to wait patiently. I shot him a look of, yeah I knew. I will add this is in Canada so neither of us said one- word to each other. But my actions just screamed.....'slow down and wait for
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    wwwhistler 1 day ago same situation....except i just went ahead and paid for then took the items that had been scanned. they were stuff i used so......thanks? i didn't bother looking back so i'm not sure how the guy reacted to my leaving with the groceries he had picked out.
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    fractal_frog 1 day ago I kept shoving the divider back when someone did that to me, and she called me for dumping her avocados on the floor on the fourth shove-back.
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    Harry Potters Elbows 18 hr. ago. edited 17 hr. ago It's not like there's a contest to get out of the grocery store faster. I hope her avocados got bruised as Reply Share 64 cortz_norman. 15 hr. ago her AND her avocados
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    Metroknight 23 hr. ago . I've done that. I even told the cashier that and that and that (all the other items where not mine but someone else) so she just pulled all those items out and cleared them off my order.
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    While doing this she was tossing the items into a return buggy (cart/trolley) which partway through got switched out with an empty one. Over half that person's items were returned back on the shelves and they had to go back and reshop while I took my merchandise out of the store.
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    Greenlily58 1 day ago I had a pushy guy who hit me from behind with his cart twice in line. Well, buddy, guess who had enough change to pay and used that instead of paper money or card?
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    Minflick 1 day ago A long time ago an old lady hit me twice with the cart. I hip checked it right back in to her and stared at her. You hit me twice, don't give ME stink eye!
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    deanna6812 1 day ago I lost it on a woman who did this to me. She hit the back of my knee. The one I had injured and had basically just been cleared to walk on without a cane or a brace. She moved her cart back pretty fast.
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    Kroe 20 hr. ago Should have questioned a few prices too. Pretty sure those chips were only 1.59! Need to get that checked by someone. Reply Share 5 makeeverythng. 19 hr. ago Sorry, I DIDNT find everything I needed! Could you please ask someone to go grab me a gallon of milk?
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    Adrianilom 1 day ago I had someone unloading their cart before I finished mine, and I squeezed onto the other side of my cart, and started chucking their things right back into their cart again. When they yelled at me, I said, "Listen buddy, the only person's time we're wasting here is yours. I can do this allll day." They went to another line.
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    PurplePanda1971 - 1 day ago I've only had that happen to me once in the several decades of me shopping. I said a loud "Excuse me! I'm not done with my groceries!" I was honestly shocked, who does that?!?
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    AreYouA_Tampon 10 hr. ago Once the man behind me just threw all his on the belt while I was still unloading my cart. I put the divider up and kept pushing his : back so I could put mine up. The idiot was like "at least you got some exercise today."
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    tinytabletopdragon - 1 day ago I kinda love this one, comes with the added benefit of knowing it cost you far less than it cost Mr Rushass. That's the best kind of petty revenge.
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