zxcvbob wrote:

> > I was ticked off, but I really did misjudge. I really didn't mean to shove a
> > bunch of stuff on the floor. It's too bad, because, being the type she was, she
> > probably thought it was all my fault and would not have understood the simple
> > courtesy of waiting until I had emptied my shopping cart on to the conveyer
> > before putting her stuff on. It wasn't like she ws going to get out of there any
> > faster. Maybe what I should have done was to let her stuff go by, and then go
> > through all the extra stuff on my bill and have the cashier go through all the
> > hassle of canceling it and starting over ;-)
> >
> >
>
> You should have let a few of the items go by and paid for them. Then
> she'd have to get out of line to go get another one if she really wanted it.

I suppose that I could have done that if it was something that I wanted or needed.
Allowing them to go through and then having the bill adjusted probably would have
slowed her up a lot more. But I have to confess that I wasn't terribly embarrassed
when I shoved her stuff back and some of it fell on the floor. :-)