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Nancy Young at wrote on 1/23/05 11:56 AM:

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> "Sheryl Rosen" > wrote in message
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>> Nancy Young at wrote on 1/23/05 10:39 AM:
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>>> The supermarket was a zoo yesterday, so we got in the best line.
>>> Last person only had a handful of stuff. Cool. Well, guess what,
>>> she was holding the place in line for her husband who had a huge
>>> cart of stuff. I think this was discussed here relatively recently,
>>> what was the consensus? Is that acceptable?
>>>
>>> Then, they still needed more stuff and left to get them.
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>> Oh, I dunno.
>> I'm beginning to think stuff like this seems fair to those doing it, and
>> seems unfair to those who didn't think to do it themselves. (or didn't
>> have
>> the means).
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>> Yeah, it's rude. Self-centered, inconsiderate. But is it really wrong?
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>> Now, cutting the line outright, not waiting your turn, that's wrong.
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> Well, in the spirit of fairness, why didn't they put the full cart in line
> instead of the person holding only a few items? Then you'd know
> what you were getting into. No problems here with them adding
> a few things to a full cart. Adding a full cart to a few items seems
> to be what was annoying.
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> nancy
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>

I don't know.
I'm sure I'd have been just as annoyed as you were, had I been behind them.
But I've also done stuff like that. Not on such a busy day when everyone is
trying to get in and out of the store, like a pre "the end of the world is
coming in the form of snow!" day.

I'm just saying....this is the sort of thing that one might do themselves,
and might not see anything wrong with it, but when you are behind the one
doing it, are very annoyed by it. Just to consider both sides.