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Speaking up doesn’t always go the way you expect.

One supermarket shopper usually keeps quiet when strangers act inconsiderately, but this time he couldn’t stay quiet.

The man ahead of him kept dumping unwanted groceries beside the register, including a box of ice cream sandwiches.

That’s when he decided to speak up and say something, before handing the frozen food to the cashier.

Unfortunately, though, the cashier missed the entire exchange and packed the ice cream with his purchases for free.

Read on to see what happened next.

Grocery Cashier Petty Revenge .

I’m not a perfect person, and I have taken part in my fair share of social injustice.

A lot of times I see things, and I keep quiet because some things are simply not worth the hassle and the ensuing drama that accompanies calling someone out on their ********.

This day I went ahead and stepped out of my zone, and I definitely regret having done so.

So… I’m at the supermarket grabbing a few things, and I get in line to pay.

As he was waiting, he saw the guy in front of him removing items from his cart.

The guy in front of me starts transferring his items onto the conveyor belt.

He starts placing things one by one, but then he holds on to a bag of sea salt-spinach-kale chips, and after one second of deliberation, he discards it right into one of the handheld plastic grocery carriers you place right under the conveyor belt once you’re done shopping.

“Ok…” I think to myself. “A little *******, but whatever, it’s just a bag of chips.”

He then continues placing stuff until he comes across an A/C filter and does the same thing.

But then, the guy did something that really upset this customer.

“Ok…”

…and then comes the straw that broke the camel’s back.

The dude pulls out a box of ice cream sandwiches, and with the same one-second deliberation, he throws it with the other discarded items.

**** THIS GUY. **** him with the power of a thousand suns.

I await for his conscience to get the best of him, and as the cashier finishes ringing in his ****, I blurt out, “Hey buddy! You forgot your ice cream.”

Before the guy could pay, this customer spoke up.

The guy is taken aback but doesn’t hesitate to tell me, “Nah, I’m not taking those.”

Adrenaline is at a thousand right about now. I say, “Well… then go ahead and at least give it to the lady so that they can put it back.”

I crouch, grab it, and put it toward the end of the scanner in front of the cashier lady on the other side of the scanner.

At this point, I’m pretty proud of myself, and I look at her for that inevitable look of, “Oh man, thanks, we deal with this **** all the time, and thank you for saying something!”

Suddenly, the cashier gave him the sandwiches for free.

Except… There was no look… This cashier was all up in la-la land and missed this entire debacle that was taking place. Her mouth-breathing *** had no ******* clue. She was so zeroed in on scanning the items that she did not notice what was going down. There was no thank you, no recognition.

I was just an ******* in a line throwing a box of ice cream sandwiches in front of her. I stay quiet…upset that this doofus was no help in dealing with the other doofus. I was surrounded by doofuses. The indifference of both boiled me to the ******* max.

I stand back, quiet, angry, festering, and that’s when I notice that she slid the box of ice cream sandwiches into his purchased items without scanning it. I didn’t say anything. I stayed nice and quiet and let the guy take the sandwiches with him. I could have said something, but I didn’t.

**** ’em both. Although now, as I type this. She didn’t get into trouble, and he got free sandwiches.

Wow! Now that’s some drama.

Let’s see how the readers over at Reddit feel about everything that happened here.

This person doesn’t think he took it far enough.

Obviously not.

For this person, it’s good she got him the junk food.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a military employee who kept repeating the same “wrong” audit until his commanding officer was fired.

This person thinks the ice cream may have melted in his car.

Sometimes doing the right thing just isn’t worth the trouble as we saw here.

Had he stayed quiet, the store still probably would’ve lost the ice cream sandwiches.

The only difference is that he could’ve saved himself the aggravation.

It’s funny how things work out sometimes.