u/Thujaplicata74

Entitled couple force other shoppers to make way for them at the till.

I'm in a local supermarket that's absolutely packed, because it's holiday season and I live in a big tourist area. Each till has at least 5 people queuing, most of them with full trolleys. I only have a bunch of bananas and there's no 5 items or less till in this shop but hey ho, what can I do? I choose what I think will be the shortest queue, with four single middle aged women and a middle aged couple... usually the most efficient type of shopper who bag up and leave quickly. On top of that, wifey second from the front only has about six items on the conveyor belt.

Said wifey gets to the front, just as a man barges past all of us, pushing a fully laden trolley. Steely eyed woman two in front glares at him and asks what he was doing, as does equally steely eyed woman in front of her.

"That's my wife," he says, arrogantly avoiding their eye contact and indicating towards wifey at the till. He then proceeds to load the contents of the trolley onto the conveyor belt, forcing the two women to remove their own items to make space!

That was a first. I've often seen someone add in a last-minute item, but I've never seen a couple get one of them to queue up while the other goes and does the actual shop? That's some level of entitlement. Clearly their time was FAR more precious than ours!

Final note: those steely-eyed women, along with the couple in front of me saw I only had one item and kindly let me skip the queue. I promised them my husband wasn't following on with the full trolley the moment I got to the front!

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u/Thujaplicata74 — 1 day ago