A young couple came up behind me, and the obviously pregnant women started loading their items on the register conveyor before I had finished emptying my shopping cart. She said, several times, "It's okay, it's okay" but her items prevented me from putting my items on the conveyor belt. I am afraid that I "lost it" and reacted poorly, embarrassing me, the cashier, the young lady and her companion. After wards, I felt really bad about the way I behaved.
I had never had his happen to me before, and it obviously was really disconcerting. While on the one hand, I was trying to assert my right to have space at the check out counter, on the other hand, I acted a bitch in doing so.
This has happened to me again, twice, recently. I have behaved better, but I don't get it. In the first instance, I had almost emptied the shopping cart, and I did not find the behavior too intrusive. But this week, the same thing happened: the person in the check out line behind me put the divider bar on the conveyor belt in an area so close to where my items were that I was not able to put the rest of the items on the conveyor belt, without pushing the divider bar back several times, while I was emptying the shopping cart. And, the person behind me kept pushing the divider bar forward, while I was trying to empty my shopping cart. I decided not to say a word to this person, because, frankly, anything I wanted to say would have been so confrontational, I might have caused a scene.
I do not understand this intrusion on personal space. The behavior of this shopper did not speed up his check out time. It really did nothing but probably make the shopper feel like he was making the check out process proceed more quickly. But it did not.
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