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Why is it awkward to touch someone else’s items on the checkout conveyer belt?
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:17 am
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:17 am
You are in line checking out at the grocery store with ‘your’ items on the belt. A person behind you reaches forward over the dividing stick, picks up a box of cereal on your side, examines it, and puts it back down on your side.
Why is this considered weird?
You don’t own the items, having not yet paid for them
Many other strangers have touched the items before you arrived in the store
The consumable is contained in a package and protected from contamination
Why is this considered weird?
You don’t own the items, having not yet paid for them
Many other strangers have touched the items before you arrived in the store
The consumable is contained in a package and protected from contamination
This post was edited on 6/4/25 at 11:21 am
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:18 am to weagle1999
Some stranger moved your cucumber and Vaseline, huh?
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:19 am to weagle1999
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reaches forward over the dividing stick
This is not 'nam, there are rules.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:21 am to weagle1999
Because they can do that in the aisle where it is stocked. Don't put your filthy paws on a product I have obviously chosen to buy.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:24 am to weagle1999
Once I’ve made my selection and placed items in the cart then they are not for public handling.
Why wouldn’t one ask to see or simply just discuss with the other person like a normal human being. Have some respect for personal space. That is what the fkn divider is for you cretin.
Why wouldn’t one ask to see or simply just discuss with the other person like a normal human being. Have some respect for personal space. That is what the fkn divider is for you cretin.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:24 am to weagle1999
Just for that, I'm fricking your wife.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:25 am to weagle1999
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Why is this considered weird?

Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:25 am to Clyde Tipton
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Don't put your filthy paws on a product I have obviously chosen to buy.
An unknowable number of filthy paws touched the product before you even arrived at the store

Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:26 am to weagle1999
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You are in line checking out at the grocery store with ‘your’ items on the belt. A person behind you reaches forward over the dividing stick, picks up a box of cereal on your side, examines it, and puts it back down on your side.
Why is this considered weird?
I've never seen anyone do this, so I guess that is why it would be considered weird.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:26 am to weagle1999
I've found that by and large people are rude at the grocery store, even people that are polite in other places. I've always thought it's a carryover from food being a key part of our most basic primal survival instinct.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:26 am to weagle1999
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Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:27 am to weagle1999
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Why is it awkward to touch someone else’s items on the checkout conveyer belt?
Why would you do this? I've never done this nor had anyone else do it.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:31 am to L1C4
Don’t any of y’all ever take the time to wonder why things happen a certain way?
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:31 am to weagle1999
so have you really done this? If so what happened?
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:32 am to weagle1999
Get 4 bottles of lube and 4 of the largest cucumbers you can find. Put the bottles of lube into the produce bag that the cucumbers are in. When the baw in line in front of you isn't looking, sneak it onto his side of the dividing stick.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:33 am to junkyard1
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so have you really done this?
I haven’t. I am wondering what it is about the situation that makes it taboo in US society.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:34 am to weagle1999
Why would you though?
But I will say I was once in line behind an extreme couponer, I mean she had a big stack of them . When I loaded my stuff on the conveyer I put my ribeyes butt up against the last of her groceries then left a small gap between the ribeyes and the rest of my groceries to see her reaction. When the cashier scanned the last of her stuff, she tomahawked her arm on the conveyer in front of my ribeyes and said “DAT’S NOT MINE!!!” Lol, she was not paying for my ribeyes after all that work with the coupons
But I will say I was once in line behind an extreme couponer, I mean she had a big stack of them . When I loaded my stuff on the conveyer I put my ribeyes butt up against the last of her groceries then left a small gap between the ribeyes and the rest of my groceries to see her reaction. When the cashier scanned the last of her stuff, she tomahawked her arm on the conveyer in front of my ribeyes and said “DAT’S NOT MINE!!!” Lol, she was not paying for my ribeyes after all that work with the coupons
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:37 am to weagle1999
I touched your mom last night
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