A couple was nearly finished at the grocery store checkout when one realized they had forgotten an item.

The husband made a quick dash to grab it and returned just in time to place it on the belt—only to be met with eye rolls and a scolding from another shopper.

Read on for the story.

AITA for having one of us get another item while in checkout line

Husband (33M) and I (33F) were at the grocery store earlier.

We had a few items in a line that was moving sort of fast, but still a few people deep.

I realized I forgot an item from our list and asked my husband to run and get it before we got to check out.

I got to the checkout and was waiting for the cashier to finish checking me out when my husband came and put the last item on the belt.

Congrats, your husband just unlocked Speedrun: Grocery Edition.

I tapped to pay with my cc, but it was one of those machines where you can tap before hand while they’re still ringing you out.

I might be extra sensitive but a few people behind us looked disgruntled and the person right behind us rolled her eyes and told him that he has to go back to the end of the line.

I think we were sort of caught off guard and didn’t really say anything as the person finished checking us out and we just sort of walked away.

Ah yes, the sacred grocery store rules…

This is something we don’t do often, but we definitely don’t think that hard about doing it as long as we haven’t been fully checked out/the cc gets processed fully.

We have had those moments where one of us doesn’t make it back in time and then we do go thru the line and one of us waits.

But this whole exchange has got us thinking that maybe we’re a******s for doing this and we need to stop?

Did they commit an unforgivable grocery store sin, or was this just efficient teamwork?

The checkout line jury is out.

This person says it’s fine, hasn’t everyone done that before?

This person says the people in line were probably just having a day.

This person says one item is completely acceptable, and everyone needs to chill.

One missing item, one dirty look—was it really that deep?

Some people just wake up angry.

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