On 4/14/2019 1:23 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-04-14 12:40 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 4/14/2019 10:51 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> One incident was definite rudeness and not a matter of being zone
>>> out. I was third in line an an express checkout to pay for my box of
>>> strawberries and there were several more line up behind me.The front
>>> guy was paying so I am almost there, and a woman stepped in front of
>>> me and put her item on the conveyor in front of my berries.Â* Excuse
>>> me!Â* She said that she only had one item and she was in a hurry. Well
>>> I had one item and I was in a hurry. It was the express checkout and
>>> the people behind each had only a few things. This was a nice
>>> looking, nicely dressed women, not a Walmart shopper.Â* That was
>>> simply rudeness and entitlement.
>>
>> Okay... once again, I've never encountered anything like that.Â* Wow.
>
>
> I suppose you have never been at a food counter and had someone weasel
> in ahead of you either.

No, I haven't. Then again I'm not sure what you mean by a food counter.

>Â* Maybe it is a cultural thing. There are a lot
> of Italians in that city and old Italian women can be pretty pushy. We
> get most of our meat from an Italian butcher these days. When we first
> started going there it was pretty frustrating dealing with these little
> old ladies because they would walk up to the counter ahead of me. The
> counter people knew it was a problem and tried hard to deal with those
> who were there first. Thank goodness they got a numbered ticket system.
>
Absolutely no markets like that anywhere I've ever lived.

Jill