Selfish People Suck

For my first blog post, I'd like to post the original "Crabby Abby Column #1" that started this whole crabby mess!

Today I'd like to talk about common courtesy. We're all guilty of being discourteous at some point, but come on! Some people should really be filmed, then made to watch the film so they can slap themselves and say "Boy, I'm a jerk".

If it is your turn at the grocery store checkout line, and you realize you've forgotten something on your list, DO NOT leave the line to "run grab it real quick". There are other people in line! Look at that poor lady right behind you. She's just standing there with her single bottle of Afrin while you run off to Aisle 9 for a can of coffee.


The other two people behind her sigh loudly, yet you just run merrily on your way, as though their time is less valuable than yours. Get a grip, ma'am. Pay for your items, wheel your cart over to Aisle 9, grab your coffee, and get back in line like the rest of us.

And to all my lovely shoppers who take their sweet time at checkout going through five different sale papers, saying "I know I saw it in here somewhere", tsk tsk tsk. I don't have so much free time that I feel comfortable standing in line for twenty minutes while you jumble all these papers around and give that poor clerk multiple paper cuts. It's not like I'm going to turn to the shopper behind me and suggest a nice game of "I Spy" while we wait.


We understand you're shopping in a store that offers "price matching" but for pity's sake, go through your papers at home and either cut out the items, or circle them with a red marker beforehand.

Everyone has "Doh!" moments, but try to keep them to a minimum when you're around other people. Selfishness is not a good thing, despite what all those creepy "love yourself" self-help books try to tell you. And when you look behind you and see a line of shopping carts that could easily form a bridge between North America and Europe, pay for your junk and get out of everyone else's way for crying out loud!