I just got judged at the grocery store checkout!

[Girlrocks]

Well, as I get older I have just come to the conclusion that most people around me are idiots-truly.

As a mom of 4, I get comments almost every week about the amount of food I am buying..."did you leave any for us?" "you have a football team visiting" "I wouldn''t want to unload that" "what does your husband do for a living?" etc. I completely ignore it. Not a smile, nothing. It has gotten to the point where I am contemplating going to the store twice a week instead of just once to get less each time, but I really hate grocery shopping, so I think I''ll just keep my "Scre* You" mentality and ignore the comments!

 

[CasaBlanca]

Oops...I am the one that yacks to strangers. But usually the whole line gets involved and we all laugh and well, I always thought the smiles and laughter I leave behind may be a fun part of their day. Like being in a elevator...who says you can''t speak? Argggh.

Yesterday I was at the wholesale club. A older man in front of me bought a shirt. Just a folded mans shirt. He brought it to the register in a shopping cart. You know the really big ones? I giggled to myself as he took the shirt of the cart and placed it on the conveyor. Then struggled to find a spot for the empty cart. He seemed nervous and sort of uncomfortable.

So I said...Gee, mister...you think you can carry that shirt all the way to the car with out help? He turned to me with the biggest blue eyes and smiled so wide his persona just changed completely. He threw his head back and let out a belly laugh. He stood there and waited for me, and we walked out together.

He said, "Honey, I don''t know what made you make a comment to me, but I am so glad you did. I have to tell you you blessed me by bringing a smile that grew into laughter. This has been a terrible few days...and you have been the first reminder of the humor I loved the most in my best friend. I was just thinking that he would have said the same thing!"

He explained he is attending his funeral and needed a an extra shirt for the next day.

He shook my hand and said that I was the best part of his day...and thanked me, sincerely.

Any regrets on my part? Not a chance.

 

[Luckyeshe]

Date: 2/13/2010 8:24:55 AM
Author: Girlrocks
Well, as I get older I have just come to the conclusion that most people around me are idiots-truly.

Seriously, it''s true and the only explanation left for the world we live in.....

 

[gemgirl]

Date: 2/12/2010 9:56:38 PM
Author: zhuzhu
One of my friend who had received a chemo treatment had to travel by plane. She was still pretty weak from the treatment so she was sitting in a wheel chair in the waiting area and had a mask on. She told me there was this man yelling across the aisle.....

''Do you got AIDS''?

My mother went through a year of treatment for breast cancer. Most cancer patients know that they look difference from other people in a lot of different ways. I''m sorry your friend had to hear something as mindless at that. Some people are just barbarians.

 

[Pandora II]

Date: 2/12/2010 9:55:38 PM
Author: hihowareyou
When I was a child my mother was a GP and used to run into her patients at the supermarket all the time. They used to always be commenting on what was in her trolly, anything that wasn''t fresh produce would get a ''I thought doctors only ate healthy foods'' or ''you let your kids eat chips?''. Growing up we ate an incredible amount of healthy food but we also had treats as part of a balanced diet. It got to the point where my mum stopped doing the grocery shopping near where she worked and made sure she didn''t live in the same suburbs as she worked. Worse than the comments she also knew that these people would be gossiping about what they saw in their doctor''s trolly to their friends.


edit: I don''t mind when people in the line ask me about a product that I''m buying. ''Have you tried that before?'', ''What does it taste like?'', etc. Rude and judgmental comments are a different story all together though.

LOL...

My father was a GP and everytime we went to the supermarket we''d bump into his patients - he was a GP in the same area for over 25 years so hard not to. Instead of them checking out OUR trolley, he used to go over and check out theirs... Oh Mrs Smith, what a lovely lot of cakes you have there.... cue fit of giggles from Mrs. Smith.

He always did it tongue in cheek and no-one ever really minded although a few would pretend to start running when they saw him coming down the aisles.

For what it''s worth, DH and I always check out other people''s trolley contents - but tend to comment to each other out of earshot!

 

[VRBeauty]

Date: 2/13/2010 12:31:52 PM
Author: CasaBlanca
Oops...I am the one that yacks to strangers. But usually the whole line gets involved and we all laugh and well, I always thought the smiles and laughter I leave behind may be a fun part of their day. Like being in a elevator...who says you can''t speak? Argggh.

Yesterday I was at the wholesale club. A older man in front of me bought a shirt. Just a folded mans shirt. He brought it to the register in a shopping cart. You know the really big ones? I giggled to myself as he took the shirt of the cart and placed it on the conveyor. Then struggled to find a spot for the empty cart. He seemed nervous and sort of uncomfortable.

So I said...Gee, mister...you think you can carry that shirt all the way to the car with out help? He turned to me with the biggest blue eyes and smiled so wide his persona just changed completely. He threw his head back and let out a belly laugh. He stood there and waited for me, and we walked out together.

He said, ''Honey, I don''t know what made you make a comment to me, but I am so glad you did. I have to tell you you blessed me by bringing a smile that grew into laughter. This has been a terrible few days...and you have been the first reminder of the humor I loved the most in my best friend. I was just thinking that he would have said the same thing!''

He explained he is attending his funeral and needed a an extra shirt for the next day.

He shook my hand and said that I was the best part of his day...and thanked me, sincerely.

Any regrets on my part? Not a chance.

 

[jewelz617]

I think sometimes people can be a little too sensitive about things.

Now making a comment to someone who has cancer? Way out of line. Disgusting, wrong, and completely heartless.

Commenting on someone''s groceries? Meh. Some people just have odd senses of humor, but they are probably totally harmless in what they are saying. Personally I think the world in general is a little too "Don''t talk to me!"

We complain when people are insensitive and don''t hold the elevator or steal a cab, but we also complain when they make light hearted conversation at the grocery store. Some things you just have to brush off and move on. Had it been me at the store I probably would have said something like "I prefer birthday cake to croutons." Make it funny, get someone to smile. 9 times out of 10 if the person was being snide, being funny in return will make them feel like a jerk anyway!