Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

> That's just bizarre. I've been known to let people ahead of me when
> they have one item, or much fewer than I have, and I've been let in in
> similar cases, but I've never seen anyone assume that was the case and
> just plop their things down ahead of someone else.

Same here. Were they from some country where that's the way
it works? It's the only explanation I can think of. If I notice someone
behind me with just an item or two when I have a cart full, I ask if they
want to go ahead of me. I think that's just a normal human reaction.
I've never seen anyone take it on themselves to skip ahead, not in
a grocery store.

nancy