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Most people don’t expect a cashier to carry on a full conversation while checking out their groceries. However, a quick hello and a little eye contact can go a long way.

That’s exactly what this woman had been missing for weeks. Every time she ended up in the same checkout line, the cashier greeted other customers and laughed with coworkers, but when it came her turn, the woman acted like she wasn’t even standing there.

At first, she ignored it because it didn’t seem like something big enough to get upset over.

But then, one day, the cashier stopped scanning her groceries in the middle of the transaction just to keep chatting with someone else, and that was finally enough to make her lose her patience.

Read on to see what she did in that moment.

AITA For snapping at the supermarket checkout assistant?

At my local supermarket, there’s this checkout lady who, when passing my groceries through her scanner, is always talking to another customer or coworker.

I noticed that she always greets other customers with a “Hello” or “Morning” and engages with them in small talk.

Whenever it’s my turn, I say “Hi,” and she says nothing back, always continuing her conversation with someone else as if I wasn’t there. Irritating, but not worth getting overly annoyed about.

Frustrated, she got right in the lady’s face.

But this one time, she stopped right in the middle of scanning my items for a good five or six seconds, laughing about something with another checkout assistant.

I deliberately got between them, snapped my fingers centimeters away from her face, and barked, “Hurry the **** up,” just stopping myself from adding, “you fat ****.”

It was a particularly humid day, and I was already not in the best of moods. She looked down, said nothing, and scanned my stuff much more quickly. I grabbed the receipt out of her hands and said nothing.

After working retail, she felt like it was just bad service.

I worked in retail and fast food myself. I always made it a point to give the customer my undivided attention. I don’t think that’s an unfair expectation.

Likewise, as a customer, I always put away my earphones when being served. But, on the other hand, she was older, working for minimum wage or close to it, and probably just a bit dim (and that’s not really her fault).

I feel a little guilty, but at the same time, I probably won’t apologize the next time I see her.

AITA?

Wow! It’s shocking the manager didn’t fix that cashier’s behavior.

Let’s check out what the people over at Reddit think about this story.

This is harsh, but true.

According to this reader, there were other ways of handling this.

Yes, that was extremely uncalled-for.

This could be true.

Snapping your fingers in someone’s face is never going to make a situation better. No matter how frustrated she felt, she crossed the line when she handled it that way.

At the same time, there’s probably a reason the cashier didn’t go out of her way to greet her. People pick up on attitudes and body language more than you realize.

Maybe the cashier was rude, or maybe she had already gotten some strange vibes from this customer.

Either way, treating someone like that at work was way out of line, and she should apologize.