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Vent: The lady in front of me at the Kroger on Maple had 37 items in the 15-items-or-less lane
She saw me looking at her full cart and just said, 'My therapist says I need to practice setting boundaries, and today my boundary is not using the big lane.' It happened last Thursday. I didn't know what to say back. Has anyone else had someone give you a reason for breaking a line rule that just left you speechless?
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aaron1502mo ago
Okay that's actually kind of brilliant. Used to get so mad at stuff like that, but her saying it out loud makes a weird sort of sense.
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the_thea2mo ago
Wait, so you're saying the act of saying it out loud changes the whole thing? That's wild. I was totally with paul_fisher19 about it just being rude, but now I'm stuck. Does calling it a "personal policy" out loud make it less rude, or does it just make the rudeness more obvious? Like, are we giving points for honesty here?
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paul_fisher192mo ago
Setting boundaries is one thing, but that's just being rude to everyone else in line. Her boundary shouldn't mean breaking a clear store rule that everyone else follows. What if the person behind her had a real emergency and just needed to buy a couple things fast? It turns a small act of consideration into a selfish performance.
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