Pet Peeve

What is it with people in the check out line of the grocery store who won't use the litle divider when they put their groceries up on the conveyor belt? If they don't want to use the divider at least leave space between their groceries and those of the person in front of them! I was in the grocery store tonight with Libby picking up just a few things. The cashier started scanning my items and I looked away to scan my card, enter my PIN, put my card back in my wallet, put my wallet back in my purse, and then get my keys out. That didn't take long at all but like I said I only had a few items so by the time I looked back up the cashier had already scanned a gallon of milk that belonged to the guy behind me and he was about to scan the guy's case of bottled water. I stopped him tellng him that the water and milk weren't mine. I looked back at the guy behind me and he was just watching the cashier scan his items onto my bill. What?? Did he really think that if he didn't say anything that I'd just buy his stuff for him? If that's what he was expecting then he definitely had me pegged wrong! The cashier had to go up to the service desk to get a manager to come void off the milk and the guy behind me had the nerve to start huffing and puffing letting everyone else know how put out he was by having to wait even longer in the line for the cashier to go get a manager. I thought briefly about keeping the milk and that would have made the jerk behind me go all the way to the back corner of the store to get a replacement gallon of milk to buy for himself but he was buying whole milk and we don't drink that stuff.

Whew, I'm glad I got that out...it just REALLY bugs me when people just stand there and watch their groceries get scanned onto someone else's bill!