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"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2019-04-14 12:40 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 4/14/2019 10:51 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
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>>> 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. Excuse me! 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. That was simply rudeness and entitlement.
>>
>> Okay... once again, I've never encountered anything like that. Wow.
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> I suppose you have never been at a food counter and had someone weasel in
> ahead of you either. 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.
People do it all the time here!
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