Choosing produce is usually a hands-on experience that few people question.

That is, until one entitled stranger decided it was time to police another shopper’s tomato-picking tactics.

Is it okay to touch the produce, or did this shopper take it too far?

You’ll want to read on for this one.

AITA for touching “all” of the produce while shopping?

I (28F) am minding my business shopping around at Sprouts when I go over to the produce section.

I go to the other side of produce because there are a lot of people in the spot I needed to go to.

I’m looking at the tomatoes on display and I pick up one, set it down, then pick up a different one.

Then suddenly she gains an audience with a lot to say.

This random lady and her young son come over to where I am, and she stands there beside my cart just staring at the tomatoes.

I’m about to pick up another tomato when she says to me, “You’re not supposed to touch them.”

I look up, and she’s looking at the tomatoes, then at me.

The two briefly go back and forth.

I say, “Um what?”

She says, “You’re not supposed to touch all the produce.”

Now I’m standing there confused because I’ve never heard of that before.

She questions the woman.

So I ask her, “I don’t understand, why wouldn’t I touch the produce?”

Then she tells me, “Other people eat the produce you touch. You’re not supposed to touch them all.”

But as far as she’s concerned, everyone touches them.

I took a second to think about it.

I respond with, “Well, that’s why you wash it when you get home. Do you not wash your produce after you buy it?”

She didn’t respond back to my question.

I’m still looking at the tomato in my hand, and she continues to stand there staring at them.

She can’t shake the weirdness of this interaction.

Eventually, she goes to the organic side and gets one from there.

I touched a total of three tomatoes.

Is there an unspoken rule about touching produce at the grocery store that I don’t know about? AITA here?

With grocery prices as high as they are, she had absolutely every right to pick the right tomato for her.

What did Reddit have to say?

This lady does not know what she’s talking about.

At least some people have a sense of humor about it.

It’s her prerogative to pick the best looking and feeling tomato.

Some people are just too entitled for their own good.

At the end of the day, it’s just produce.

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