September 29, 2026 at 11:24 am

A Man Cut In Front Of A Whole Line Of Grocery Store Customers, Claiming His Wife Had Been Holding His Spot

by Matthew Gilligan

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Folks…there are rules about these kinds of things…

Yes, you’re allowed to hold spots for people in lines SOMETIMES…

But you have to be reasonable about it.

And being a jerk in a situation like this is a no-go!

Check out what this shopper had to say about a rude couple who didn’t think they had to be considerate of anyone else in a grocery store.

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Entitled couple force other shoppers to make way for them at the till.

“I’m in a local supermarket that’s absolutely packed because it’s holiday season and I live in a big tourist area.

Each till has at least 5 people queuing, most of them with full trolleys.

I only have a bunch of bananas and there’s no 5 items or less till in this shop but hey, what can I do?

I choose what I think will be the shortest queue, with four single middle aged women and a middle aged couple… usually the most efficient type of shopper who bag up and leave quickly.

On top of that, wifey second from the front only has about six items on the conveyor belt.

What the hell?!?!

Said wifey gets to the front, just as a man barges past all of us, pushing a fully laden trolley. Steely eyed woman two in front glares at him and asks what he was doing, as does equally steely eyed woman in front of her.

“That’s my wife,” he says, arrogantly avoiding their eye contact and indicating towards wifey at the till.

He then proceeds to load the contents of the trolley onto the conveyor belt, forcing the two women to remove their own items to make space!

That was a first.

This is so rude!

I’ve often seen someone add in a last-minute item, but I’ve never seen a couple get one of them to queue up while the other goes and does the actual shop?

That’s some level of entitlement.

Clearly their time was FAR more precious than ours!

Final note: those steely-eyed women, along with the couple in front of me saw I only had one item and kindly let me skip the queue.

I promised them my husband wasn’t following on with the full trolley the moment I got to the front!”

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This person had a lot to say.

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What a couple of jerks!

They clearly have no regard for anyone besides themselves…

Ugh, the worst!

These folks should be awarded the Rudest Couple of the Year trophy!

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